| 单词 | agriculture |
| 例句 | The only form of agriculture they can practice for a long time is "slash-and-burn,” or "swidden,” as it is sometimes known. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I should not be surprised—the Amity spend their lives accomplishing feats of agriculture like this one, with the help of Erudite technology. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Sedentary villages based on cereals were already in existence before the rise of food production and predisposed those hunter-gatherers to agriculture and herding. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We will specifically consider the use of fire for agriculture and game management, and the creation of roadways that spanned the continent. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Intensive agriculture is much more productive but maximizes the land’s exposure. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z What those five have in common, of course, is that they are all cultures shaped by the tradition of wet-rice agriculture and meaningful work. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Such levels of planning are ordinarily thought to kick in with the transition to agriculture. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Such spreads of technology and agriculture, arising ultimately from competition between human groups, must have happened at innumerable other times and places over the past 10,000 years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z About 4.6 million people came from Mexico to work in agriculture. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Furthermore, he should encourage his subjects to pursue their trades in tranquillity, whether in commerce, agriculture, or in any other human pursuit. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Instead, what cries out for explanation is the failure of food production to appear, until modern times, in some ecologically very suitable areas that are among the world’s richest centers of agriculture and herding today. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Very nutritious. One of our lecturers in agriculture sells it.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Inevitably, this highly productive system of intensive agriculture triggered an immediate population explosion in Kyushu, where archaeologists have identified far more Yayoi sites than Jomon sites, even though the Jomon period lasted 14 times longer. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “We’ve got some new books on agriculture—farming, gardening, fertilizing, things like that—and we’re studying them. It’s part of the Plan.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z The land was useless for agriculture but had four plausible seaports and huge underground deposits of prehistoric guano, which Chilean companies mined and shipped to Europe for fertilizer. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z His father, King Erechtheus of Athens, was usually said to be the king in whose reign Demeter came to Eleusis and agriculture began. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The structure of their societies, the management of their industry, agriculture, commerce, the size of their settlements, the subjects of their stories, everything is shaped to fit the somer-kemmer cycle. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z But by studying its essential features, researchers may be able to smooth the rough ecological edges of conventional agriculture. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The Macassans did not settle in Australia—undoubtedly because the area of northwestern Australia facing Indonesia is much too dry for Macassan agriculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Some other Eurasian societies, notably the Central Asian pastoralists and the reindeer-herding Lapps and Samoyeds of the Arctic, had domestic animals but little or no agriculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Because intensive agriculture has been regarded a prerequisite for complex societies, it has long been claimed that civilizations can arise only in such farm-friendly places. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Southwest and Southeast was slow, because the intervening areas were deserts hostile to agriculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They organized work forces to construct large irrigation systems for agriculture and to enclose large ponds for fish production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Finally, peoples of some areas ecologically suitable for food production neither evolved nor acquired agriculture in prehistoric times at all; they persisted as hunter-gatherers until the modern world finally swept upon them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Abandoning agriculture in favor of manufacturing, he forced many of the nation’s rural dwellers into unheated apartment buildings. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z China had developed intensive agriculture based on millets in the north and rice in the south, and with domestic pigs, chickens, and water buffalo. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The entire area around Hiroshima, mainly devoted to agriculture, was suffering a severe depression. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Hence it seems likely that some of them were also the founding crops of highland agriculture, especially as the ancient drainage systems preserved are so similar to the modern drainage systems used for growing taro. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Today, scholars agree that agriculture sprang up in other parts of the world not by the action of Middle Eastern farmers exporting their revolution but entirely independently. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Once one band settled down and started tilling, whether in the Middle East or Central America, agriculture was irresistible. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z But in Western agriculture, the opposite is true. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Those who remained continued to work the land, but the out-migration of African Americans combined with other factors to make traditional agriculture less sustainable as the economic base of the region. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I couldn't make it now without money, however, as there is very little fruiting agriculture down here at this time. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Irrigation agriculture and fish farming provide ideal living conditions for the snails carrying schistosomiasis and for flukes that burrow through our skin as we wade through the feces-laden water. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z While 80 percent of Japan’s land area consists of mountains unsuitable for agriculture and only 14 percent is farmland, per square mile of that farmland Japan supports a population density eight times that of Britain’s. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Although insect resistance is a matter of concern in agriculture and forestry, it is in the field of public health that the most serious apprehensions have been felt. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Why did the rise of agriculture launch the evolution of our crowd infectious diseases? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Hence hunter-gatherers usually don’t have pottery, because most sedentary societies elsewhere in the world arose only with the adoption of agriculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It has rich soils, reliable moderate rainfall, and a suitable climate that sustains bountiful agriculture today. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Only when European settlers arrived by sea in 1652, bringing with them their Fertile Crescent crop package, could agriculture thrive in South Africa’s Mediterranean zone. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The most productive Polynesian agriculture was taro cultivation in irrigated fields. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z That’s because much of the intervening area of Texas and the southern Great Plains was dry and unsuitable for agriculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Egypt’s wheat and barley never reached the Mediterranean climate at the Cape of Good Hope until European colonists brought them in 1652, and the Khoisan never developed agriculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Of course, Persephone would be above in the world of light with her mother, the goddess of agriculture, Demeter. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Over the last 12,000 years, agriculture arose at not more than nine places over the face of the earth: China, the Fertile Crescent, and a few other places. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z With the tree and grass cover removed, erosion proceeded and valleys silted up, while irrigation agriculture in the low-rainfall environment led to salt accumulation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z By around 5,000 years ago, pollen analyses testify to widespread deforestation of highland valleys, suggesting forest clearance for agriculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Atop the mound was the temple for the divine kings, who arranged for the weather to favor agriculture. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Scholars once believed that agriculture spread from a single Middle Eastern point of origin to the four corners of the world. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z River valleys of the southwestern United States eventually came to support irrigation agriculture and complex societies, but only after many of the developments on which those societies rested had been imported from Mexico. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Thus, agriculture could arise in the Fertile Crescent from domestication of locally available wild plants, without having to wait for the arrival of crops derived from wild plants domesticated elsewhere. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But the mound builders in Louisiana built these massive constructions at a time when agriculture was barely under way—it was like the whiff in the air from a faraway ocean. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z One is that agriculture in much of the Old World came to involve broadcast seeding and monoculture fields, and eventually plowing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Initially he’d hoped to teach at the agriculture department at Kabul University. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z That buildup began with the rise of agriculture starting about 10,000 years ago and then accelerated with the rise of cities starting several thousand years ago. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Most of those people lived in shoreline communities, where rising numbers were beginning to change agriculture from an option to a necessity. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The sum of these questions led to full-fledged agriculture—not just in the Tehuacan Valley, but in many places in southern Mexico. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Its woodlands were cleared for agriculture, or cut to obtain construction timber, or burned as firewood or for manufacturing plaster. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And then, rather than centering their agriculture on annual crops, they focused on the Amazon’s wildly diverse assortment of trees. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In contrast, many islands with intensive agriculture attained population densities exceeding 120 per square mile. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z For the next 50,000 years our ancestors flourished there without agriculture. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Since then, though, scientific measurements, mainly of pollen in lake sediments, have shown that the Maya did cut down much of the region’s forest, using the wood for fuel and the land for agriculture. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Rather than being the timeless indigenous adaptation portrayed in ecology textbooks, many archaeologists now view slash-and-burn agriculture as a relatively modern technique whose spread was driven by European technology. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She was pre-eminently the Goddess of the City, the protector of civilized life, of handicrafts and agriculture; the inventor of the bridle, who first tamed horses for men to use. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z One side proposes that Monte Alban formed because maize agriculture allowed the Oaxaca Valley’s population to grow so much that the rural villages naturally clustered into something resembling cities. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z These and other discoveries add details, which continue to fascinate me, to our understanding of how agriculture’s rise triggered the rise of agriculturally based complex societies in the ancient world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z To Wilkes’s way of thinking, ancient Indian farming methods may be the cure for some of modern agriculture’s ailments. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The forager economy provided most people with more interesting lives than agriculture or industry do. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Still another development in eastern and northern Australia was the harvesting of seeds of a wild millet, belonging to the same genus as the broomcorn millet that was a staple of early Chinese agriculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The most debated question about Jomon subsistence concerns the possible contribution of agriculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The combination of good soil, successful agriculture, and evidence of past Indian inhabitation was what had brought the scientists to the farm. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In 1947, a Mississippi hotel denied service to the Haitian secretary of agriculture, who had come to the state to attend an international conference. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Especially in the experience of Japanese archaeologists, China is regarded as the source of cultural breakthroughs in East Asia, such as agriculture, writing, metallurgy, and everything else of significance. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The first Bantu pioneers probably were few in number, selected wet-forest areas suitable for their yam agriculture, and leapfrogged over drier areas, which they left to Khoisan herders and hunter-gatherers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “She’s focusing more on teaching agriculture than raising livestock these days,” he says. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z “They practiced agriculture here for centuries,” Glaser told me. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z To some extent, this freedom simply reflected North American Indians’ relatively recent adoption of agriculture. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Eugenics was merely an applied form of genetics for Galton, just as agriculture was an applied form of botany. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Muralug Island itself, the island nearest Australia, was dry, marginal for agriculture, and supported only a small human population, which subsisted mainly on seafood, wild yams, and mangrove fruits. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Instead, farming spread mainly through farmers’ outbreeding hunters, developing more potent technology, and then killing the hunters or driving them off of all lands suitable for agriculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They did not adopt pigs, of which there were few or none on the islands, and which they would in any case have been unable to feed without agriculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z At the top of the project sheet, it says: Science/Language Arts Cross-Curricular Project Broad topic—Florida agriculture Narrow topic—an agricultural product that is native to this area of Florida Your topic—?????? Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But Cape York Aborigines did not adopt agriculture, in part because what they saw of it on Muralug Island was so watered-down. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Let us now return to our questions: Why did agriculture never arise independently in some fertile and highly suitable areas, such as California, Europe, temperate Australia, and subequatorial Africa? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Iceland’s climate permitted herding and extremely limited agriculture, and its area was sufficient to support a Norse-derived population that has persisted to this day. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Consequently, from the very advent of agriculture, worries about the future became major players in the theatre of the human mind. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z From these initial focal points, agriculture spread far and wide. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The earliest known examples appeared in northeastern Lousiana about 5,400 years ago, well before the advent of agriculture. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The river valleys of southeastern Australia remained occupied by tribal societies without agriculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Chapter 4 sketches how food production—that is, the growing of food by agriculture or herding, instead of the hunting and gathering of wild foods—ultimately led to the immediate factors permitting Pizarro’s triumph. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Even greater was the impact in Africa, where maize was transforming agriculture by the end of the sixteenth century. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Hence early Korean agriculture could not compete with Jomon hunting and gathering. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Inhabitants of those islands developed intensive dryland agriculture requiring a heavy input of labor to build terraces, carry out mulching, rotate crops, reduce or eliminate fallow periods, and maintain tree plantations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Still a third type of answer to Yali invokes the supposed importance of lowland river valleys in dry climates, where highly productive agriculture depended on large-scale irrigation systems that in turn required centralized bureaucracies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Pottery helped those Japanese hunter-gatherers to exploit their environment’s rich food resources more than 10,000 years before intensive agriculture reached Japan. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Indigenous civilizations were based on advanced agriculture and well-developed systems of governance. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z That change marked the beginning of agriculture in the Fertile Crescent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They had no intensive agriculture, and only questionably any agriculture at all. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They have led to illness and death of workers in electrical industries; and more recently, in agriculture, they have been considered a cause of a mysterious and usually fatal disease of cattle. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Yet those other Mediterranean zones not only failed to rival the Fertile Crescent as early sites of food production; they never gave rise to indigenous agriculture at all. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Our other example of indigenous agriculture apparently constrained by the local flora comes from the eastern United States. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We have cots, the table and chairs we acquired in Kinshasa, a collection of agriculture books and teaching tools from Bikoki, my ancient suitcase of family treasures salvaged from Kilanga. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Native Americans, who left Asia long before agriculture, missed out on the bounty. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Instead, those trees must be grown by the difficult technique of grafting, developed in China long after the beginnings of agriculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The most important new elements were Japan’s first metal tools, of iron, and its first undisputed full-scale agriculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Much of northern and western Europe is still able to support productive intensive agriculture today, 7,000 years after the arrival of food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Polynesian food production depended mainly on agriculture, which was impossible at subantarctic latitudes because all Polynesian crops were tropical ones initially domesticated outside Polynesia and brought in by colonists. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Those mountains are in proximity to gentle lowlands with rivers, flood plains, and deserts suitable for irrigation agriculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The fire ant was pictured as a serious threat to southern agriculture through destruction of crops and to wildlife because of attacks on the young of ground-nesting birds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z To be here without doing everything wrong requires a new agriculture, a new sort of planning, a new religion. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Only when agriculture came into practice—and that’s not very long ago in terms of the whole history—did a place achieve meaning and value and permanence. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Large areas of the former Fertile Crescent are now desert, semidesert, steppe, or heavily eroded or salinized terrain unsuited for agriculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The scale of their constructions and their agriculture infrastructure required sophisticated civic and social organization. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Secondly, modern forager societies have survived mainly in areas with difficult climatic conditions and inhospitable terrain, ill-suited for agriculture. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z When agriculture and industry came along people could increasingly rely on the skills of others for survival, and new ‘niches for imbeciles’ were opened up. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The Hopewell culture introduced monumental earthworks and, possibly, agriculture to the rest of the cold North. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Thus before agriculture the people of Mesoamerica had never experienced what it was like to stand in a field of grain. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z When we invented agriculture, we had to take care to plant and harvest our crops in the right season. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z European- style agriculture would not only fall victim to mega-Ninos, it would permanently ruin the forest soils. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Concern about the future was rooted not only in seasonal cycles of production, but also in the fundamental uncertainty of agriculture. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z These insects, so essential to our agriculture and indeed to our landscape as we know it, deserve something better from us than the senseless destruction of their habitat. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z They are the backbone of our agriculture and our food supply. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Because of the limited variety of wild starting material suitable for plant domestication, even Africa’s earliest agriculture may have begun several thousand years later than that of the Fertile Crescent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Remains of rice and millet at later Taiwanese sites provide evidence of agriculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Enough forest was left to allow for hunting, but agriculture was an increasing presence. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Santa Rosa County borders the Gulf of Mexico at the western end of the Florida Panhandle and had long been known for agriculture. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z They were also amongst the first to become Christians, to build better houses, and to use scientific methods of agriculture, and they were wealthier than their Xhosa compatriots. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Taking up agriculture, the Finger Lakes people, by now consolidated into five main groups, lined the region’s hills with farms. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In contrast, pottery wasn’t adopted in the Fertile Crescent until about a thousand years after the adoption of agriculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I sat on the library floor and hand-copied books on history, geography, civics, agriculture, and other subjects. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus, Eurasia’s west-east axis allowed Fertile Crescent crops quickly to launch agriculture over the band of temperate latitudes from Ireland to the Indus Valley, and to enrich the agriculture that arose independently in eastern Asia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She pored over the bookshelves, found lots of biology and physiology and animal science books, some agriculture, only one little book on myths, which she pulled out; she had this book, too. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Dryland agriculture became especially productive on Easter, tiny Anuta, and flat and low Tonga, where Polynesians devoted most of the land area to the growing of food. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Slash-and-burn was a product of European axes—and European diseases, which so shrank Indian groups that they adopted this less laborious but also less productive method of agriculture. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z These are familiar to us precisely because they also spread into climatically similar adjacent areas of Europe, thence to America and Australia, and became some of the staple crops of temperate-zone agriculture around the world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The town was an odd melting-pot of agriculture and industry located on the periphery of the southern California boom, a place that felt out on the edge. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z The Fertile Crescent, where agriculture arose, enjoys that same Mediterranean pattern of winter rains. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The economic basis for the powerful Aztec state was hydraulic agriculture. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The two were the patrons of handicrafts, the arts which along with agriculture are the support of civilization; he the protector of the smiths as she of the weavers. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He weighed a hundred and fifty-four—the same as he had the day he graduated from Kansas State University, where he had majored in agriculture. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “Puerto Rico’s tourism industry is way more lucrative than its agriculture.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Instead, highly productive agriculture enabled a modest number of immigrant rice farmers to reproduce much faster than Jomon hunter-gatherers and eventually to outnumber them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In the past, agriculture, writing, and improved pre-gun weapons took much longer to spread much greater distances, but the underlying social processes of population replacement and competition were essentially the same. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Such size differences in other plants go back to the very beginnings of agriculture, when cultivated peas evolved through human selection to be 10 times heavier than wild peas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The failure of the Khoisan and Pygmies to develop agriculture was due not to any inadequacy of theirs as farmers but merely to the accident that southern Africa’s wild plants were mostly unsuitable for domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Fortunately, the Fertile Crescent is by far the most intensively studied and best understood part of the globe as regards the rise of agriculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It’s not that the Cape of Good Hope itself is too dry for agriculture: it is, after all, the breadbasket of modern South Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But agriculture did not begin to flower, so to speak, until the Adena. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z One reason just mentioned is that agriculture sustains much higher human population densities than does the hunting-gathering lifestyle—on the average, 10 to 100 times higher. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Because it was as close as I could get to the original food chain, the way people fed themselves for the tens of thousands of years before agriculture. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Year in, year out, as far back as history is recorded, farmers from across Asia have engaged in the same relentless, intricate pattern of agriculture. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z My dad’s books on agriculture and opening a business made it seem like he maybe wanted to open a restaurant. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z However, Figure 19.1, of recent African human distributions, reminds us that the Bantu did not overrun all the Khoisan, who did survive in southern African areas unsuitable for Bantu agriculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z How could they have agriculture but no pottery? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Most depended on raised-field agriculture, in which farmers grow crops on flat, artificially constructed surfaces created for the same reason that home gardeners grow vegetables on raised beds. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z These arose with the intensification of agriculture — the devotion of immense acreages to a single crop. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Most had recently adopted agriculture or were soon to do so, but it was still a secondary source of food, a supplement to the wild products of the land. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It was then that animals were domesticated, agriculture began, and stone tools began to be replaced by metal ones. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z A priori, the region might have seemed a likely one to support productive indigenous agriculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z "Look," I said, "I don't know what you're talking about. I've never lived on a farm and I didn't study agriculture, but I do know why I made that speech." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Bananas and other tropical Asian crops for which Africa’s climate is eminently suitable, and which today are among the most productive staples of tropical African agriculture, were unable to reach Africa by land routes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A third explanation agrees that hunting and fire agriculture played a significant role in the extinction, but emphasises that we can’t completely ignore the role of climate. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z They taught metrics and agriculture: how to count potatoes, how to pave roads, chop wood, till the soil. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z No single step separated the woman gathering wild wheat from the woman farming domesticated wheat, so it’s hard to say exactly when the decisive transition to agriculture took place. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Erickson explained to me that the pieces of ceramic were probably intended to help build up and aerate the muddy soil for settlement and agriculture. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Because they had already been living a settled existence in villages for thousands of years, they may have been pre-adapted to accepting agriculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z State and federal agriculture officials characteristically shrugged off individual complaints as unimportant. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The fire ant suddenly became the target of a barrage of government releases, motion pictures, and government-inspired stories portraying it as a despoiler of southern agriculture and a killer of birds, livestock, and man. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Virtually all other Eurasian societies engaged in agriculture as well as in herding animals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Around 10,000 BC, before the transition to agriculture, earth was home to about 5–8 million nomadic foragers. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z And wind and solar require almost no water to operate and thus do not pollute water resources or further deplete the water supply by competing with agriculture, drinking water systems, or other water needs. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The most valuable domesticable wild species were concentrated in only nine small areas of the globe, which thus became the earliest homelands of agriculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There are many obvious reasons for these effects of history, such as that long experience of state societies and agriculture implies experienced administrators, experience with market economies, and so on. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Key hallmarks of this transition included the development of agriculture, metallurgy, complex technology, centralized government, and writing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z By contrast, swine, mainstays of European agriculture, transmit anthrax, brucellosis, leptospirosis, trichinosis, and tuberculosis. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z At that scale, with families of five and six people living off a farm the size of two hotel rooms, agriculture changes dramatically. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z What I discovered was a vast industry—a giant agriculture business or agribusiness. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z As for livestock, Eurasian sheep made it possible to extend food production to arid areas of Australia unsuitable for agriculture, and Eurasian cattle joined crops in moister areas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Jonas had crossed it on school trips, visiting the outlying communities, and he knew that the land beyond the bridge was much the same, flat and well ordered, with fields for agriculture. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z The second explanation is that by the time Sapiens reached Australia, they had already mastered fire agriculture. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It turns out that countries in regions with long histories of state societies or agriculture have higher per-capita GNP than countries with short histories, even after other variables have been controlled. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Not given an environment that favored the development of intensive agriculture, that is, they shaped the landscape into something more suitable to their purposes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Studies of ancient skeletons indicate that the transition to agriculture brought about a plethora of ailments, such as slipped discs, arthritis and hernias. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The farmlands of modern agriculture are highly artificial, unlike anything nature ever conceived. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z They did not seem to recognize that for thousands of years Native people had been making roads and clearing spaces to make trading, hunting, and agriculture easier. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z By the end of the first millennium a.d., agriculture was spreading rapidly and the region was becoming an unusual patchwork of communities, each with its preferred terrain, way of subsistence, and cultural style. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Today, the staple crops of highland agriculture are the recently introduced sweet potato, along with taro, bananas, yams, sugarcane, edible grass stems, and several leafy vegetables. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z His father had hoped to teach at the local community college, but there just wasn’t an opening in the agriculture department. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Rather than being founded on agriculture, the ancient cities of coastal Peru drew their sustenance from the sea. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Isn’t the goddess of agriculture Ceres—” “Evil name!” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Impressed as they were with the Kingdom of Kongo, the Europeans were dismayed to find no commodity agriculture here. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z All of these tantalizing clues make it likely that Jomon people were starting to practice some slash-and-burn agriculture, but it was evidently in a casual way that made only a minor contribution to their diet. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In addition, Eurasian domestic animals made Eurasian agriculture itself more competitive by providing fertilizer, and eventually by drawing plows. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The Bees—useful to agriculture, painful to cross b. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Soon the priests were holding mass baptisms on shore and marching their converts onto ships bound for sugar plantations in Brazil, slaves to the higher god of commodity agriculture. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The bookshelf in their living room at home now held only an assortment of religious bound volumes and his father’s periodicals on agriculture. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z As the evolutionary biologist S. L. Washburn writes: Most of human evolution took place before the advent of agriculture when men lived in small groups, on a face-to- face basis. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z While Aboriginal Australians and many Native Americans remained hunter-gatherers, most of Eurasia and much of the Americas and sub-Saharan Africa gradually developed agriculture, herding, metallurgy, and complex political organization. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But she was also right: the living there was so easy that there was no need to develop agriculture, let alone writing. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Half of its farmland is devoted to labor-intensive, high-yield, irrigated rice agriculture, facilitated by abundant rivers flowing from the wet mountains onto sloping lowland plains. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But missing from the flurry of legislation are concrete plans for the future of food and agriculture. How will California’s climate ambitions reshape food and agriculture? 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z But an increasing number of them were seeing their role in other businesses: as research culinary professionals, as “food-experience designers,” as people going into food and tech, even agriculture. Why a culinary school decided to bridge business and education 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Puyallup Fair: Last weekend, carnival, animal and agriculture displays, vendors, entertainment, 9 a.m.-11 p.m. Community Corner: Wallingford Wurst Festival, Bicycle Sunday 2012-09-21T17:04:04Z The wine industry’s success means the agriculture ministry wants it to be a model for improving the olive oil and arak sectors. Lebanon wines bring villages back to life and emigrants home 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z He’s worried about despoiling the planet with pollution, corporate agriculture and other exploitation, and his set was a long crescendo of fears and warnings — tumultuous and hardheaded. Review: Paul McCartney and Neil Young Share a Bill, and Some Songs 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z What most expert proponents of regenerative agriculture agree is essential to the term is a commitment to progressively improving soil health, in order to raise plants and animals that are also healthier. Making sense of regenerative labels 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z That was a chemically intensive agriculture – all the problems we’re dealing with now were present then. Michael Pollan: Bad food is costing America its economic health 2013-12-08T19:00:00Z He finds that problematic, given how little coverage of agriculture there is in daily newspapers now. How reporters for niche publications conquered Capitol Hill 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z It is only because of this stable climate that we have so successfully populated the world while optimizing our homes, facilities, and agriculture to suit a relatively predictable local climate in each location. From global warming to fluoride: Why do people deny science? 2013-05-25T20:30:00Z Just as the fight over GMOs is really a fight over industrialized agriculture, the fight over preservatives is really a fight over processed food. Perspective | Why we worry about preservatives — and why we shouldn’t 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z Honey bees are crucial to American agriculture, pollinating crops of 90 different fruits and vegetables. 'The Beekeeper's Lament': A man and his bees, vital links in the food chain 2011-06-01T22:13:34Z This is great, but to remain competitive with other major agriculture producers, Canada needs to start large-scale agriculture in the shadow of solar panels. How shading crops with solar panels can improve farming, lower food costs and reduce emissions 2023-05-03T04:00:00Z The transition memos from the left flank of American agriculture began piling up almost as soon as Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s presidential win was clear. How America’s Food System Could Change Under Biden 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z The meteoric rise of highly processed plant-based proteins has kicked open the door for cellular agriculture. The New Secret Chicken Recipe? Animal Cells. 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z We've reported a lot on no-till farming in the U.S. in terms of large-scale agriculture; can you share how those principles can apply in our own backyards? How to garden through climate change 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z The best way to tackle the tug-of-war between people and planet is to aim to improve agriculture in ways that benefit both. Why everyone who is sure about a food philosophy is wrong 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z Its original aim was to boost agriculture standards in the territory, and to improve the lives of the flood of refugee farmers spilling into Hong Kong from Communist China. Near Urban Hong Kong, a Taste of the Farm 2010-03-15T10:01:00Z Paula Lukats is the program director of Just Food, an advocacy and education group for local agriculture in New York State. When Community-Supported Agriculture Is Not What It Seems 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z Indigenous communities are increasingly investing in agriculture to sustain their cultures and economies. Indigenous food sovereignty requires better and more accurate data collection 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z Australian agriculture's ability to withstand shocks relies on a range of structural factors that need more recognition, including: Climate change threatens to cause "synchronized harvest failures" across the globe 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z "Conventional industrial agriculture is characterized by maximizing the yield of crops above all else," she writes, "doing so through energy-intensive farming practices and synthetic chemicals such as fertilizers, at the expense of the surrounding environment." Tips for sustainable grocery shopping 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z Man drastically diminished the realm of the birds – first with fire, axe and plough, later with guns, urban development and supercharged agriculture. The Sea Inside by Philip Hoare – review 2013-05-30T06:30:01Z It’s certainly compelling to think about a future where the United States is free from industrial agriculture, but that fantasy is the most interesting thing on offer here. ‘Meat the Future’ Review: The Growth of a ‘Clean Meat’ Start-Up 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z By the time the Roman agronomist Cato the Elder wrote his famous treatise on agriculture around 160 B.C., the techniques for salt-curing ham he describes were well established, the precursor of today’s prosciutto and speck. Yes, Ham Can Be a Surprisingly Easy Spring Project 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z What that will mean for agriculture is harder to predict. Dust is a growing problem. What role does farmland play? 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z The ROC is a new program launched in August by the Regenerative Organic Alliance, a group based in Santa Rosa, Calif., dedicated to reforming agriculture and fighting climate change. The ROC certification could become the gold standard for wineries, and the earth 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z And the more I delved into it, the more realized that the earliest history of pigs in the area was really a story of agriculture and survival. How the famous swimming pigs of the Bahamas came to be 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z Modern agriculture and viticulture allow farmers and grape growers to add nutrients such as nitrogen to crops and soil, but Casteel advocates promoting a healthy “habitat” that will produce those nutrients naturally in the soil. To fight climate change, one winemaker wants to think about more than the grapes 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z People began to see themselves as “rulers of nature, gods over the earth,” he argues, which led to the development of agriculture. Reza Aslan’s ‘God: A Human History’ 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z Locally, Australia will need to invest in adaptation to ensure that agriculture and our food systems more broadly, are resilient to the gathering storm, because this one will be like nothing we have ever seen. Climate change threatens to cause "synchronized harvest failures" across the globe 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z Almost two-thirds of Italy’s farmland has been hit by a prolonged drought this year, costing Italian agriculture some 2 billion euros, according to farmers association Coldiretti. Italy's white truffles feel the heat at Alba auction 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z Residential areas would be spaced out between areas for commerce, industry, parkland, and agriculture. How Frank Lloyd Wright Tried to Solve the City 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z Hagstrom is passionate about all facets of agriculture — raving to me about the history of food art and his trip to a lobbyist’s alpaca farm — and he stands at the top of his field. How reporters for niche publications conquered Capitol Hill 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z One of the largest has been the Maple Guild, in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, owned by Sweet Tree Holdings and funded by a private equity firm from Montreal called Fiera Comox that invests heavily in agriculture. Vermont’s maple syrup business is booming, thanks to technology and changing tastes 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z Yet Cuba also offers 11 million potential new customers for conventional agriculture. A Rush of Americans, Seeking Gold in Cuban Soil 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z As I have documented, its story tells us much about the relationship between environmental uncertainty and commercial agriculture. Peaches are a minor part of Georgia’s economy, but they’re central to its mythology 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z As it stands, agriculture in Canada and elsewhere relies on the low-paid, precarious work of seasonal migrants who are barred from unionizing and frequently face abuse. Can the heat from running computers help grow our food? It’s complicated 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z "I grew up in Italy and our country is a country of great agriculture and food produce," she explains. Isabella Rossellini: the Bee movie star 2012-09-29T23:05:16Z Most recently, the widely publicized EAT-Lancet Report, produced by an international team of health, agriculture and sustainability experts, recommended consuming less than half an ounce of red meat per day. Americans, especially millennials, are embracing plant-based meat products 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z The Delta’s communities have long been diverse, with people of Portuguese, Hispanic and Asian backgrounds drawn to the area first by the Gold Rush, and later by agriculture. Setting Sail on the Winding Waterways of California’s Delta 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z Such studies demonstrate that evolution can produce diet-related adaptations in much less time than has elapsed since agriculture first appeared. It’s time to leave the Paleo Diet in the past: Recent studies have failed to support its claims 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z It certainly wasn’t clear from Phoenix’s Globes acceptance speech, which began: “First, I would like to thank the Hollywood foreign press for recognising and acknowledging the link between animal agriculture and climate change,” he said. How do you know when the Oscars have gone vegan? Answer: they keep telling you 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z With the announcement that President Obama's secretary of agriculture, Tom Vilsack, will be returning to Biden's cabinet, it's unclear how much change is really on the table. Looking ahead: The top food and agriculture stories for 2021 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z Everything in agriculture now is get big as fast as possible to maximize profits, which are hard to come by in farming, very. A Chicken That Grows Slower and Tastes Better 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z Weeds tend to invade soil disturbed by humans, and we’ve proved to be good at that, whether for agriculture or road construction. How America’s frenzy for Japanese plants brought beauties — and a mega-weed 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Balf hopes visitors will understand that “we are trying to build an economic model similar to the market for sustainable agriculture,” he added. Polishing Its Past and Preparing Its Future 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z With talk of carbon markets for farmers and more companies announcing soil health and other initiatives, we predict that regenerative agriculture will continue to grow as part of the proposed solution. Looking ahead: The top food and agriculture stories for 2021 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z But the more Jim talked about the migration of our species or the extinct Neanderthals or the birth of agriculture, the more I wondered if we needed the celebrity garnish. Rewind TV: Complicit; Walking Wounded: Return to the Frontline; Meet the Izzards – review 2013-02-23T22:45:01Z Encouraging free trade in agriculture has not significantly improved global food security. Climate change threatens to cause "synchronized harvest failures" across the globe 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z The prairie’s demise is linked more to agriculture than urbanization, but still, we are trying in our limited and stumbling way to make up for the loss by planting perennials and grasses of native origin. A native plant designer’s memoir reflects on a life in the field 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z The produce boxes point to the big business of American agriculture, which depends so heavily on — and often exploits — undocumented Mexican immigrants who have little leverage when the work is dangerous or wages too low. A Mexican American Artist Finds Heroes in Farmworkers 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z It was also about green revolution in India, when big companies were introducing chemicals into agriculture. The Yes Men “prank-stars” tackle climate change, Homeland Security, international gay rights — and their own partnership 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z The secretary of agriculture, Tom Vilsack, seems to be walking the middle of that line. A Rush of Americans, Seeking Gold in Cuban Soil 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z Today, one in every four kilograms of fish caught is reduced into oil and meal and used for agriculture, land animal husbandry and, most recently, fish farming, AKA aquaculture. Fool’s gold: what fish oil is doing to our health and the planet 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z “There’s more interest in agriculture than there’s ever been,” Grant says. If GMOs aren’t the problem with our food system, then what is? 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z “That part was easier than writing about Alabama agriculture.” Is Poetry Dead? Not if 45 Official Laureates Are Any Indication 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z Being able to collect such data is crucial for developing a framework for Indigenous peoples and communities that are interested in starting or expanding their engagement with the agriculture sector. Indigenous food sovereignty requires better and more accurate data collection 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z The Kremlin hopes the ban will spur Russian agriculture. 'Parmigiano-Belarussiano' and other secrets of Russian chefs under food ban 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z But more attention is being focused on the issue as numerous factors, including climate change, deforestation, agriculture and pollution, are destroying both the abundance and diversity of insects. Dragonflies, Beetles, Cicadas — What’s Not to Love? 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z The code of conduct is currently being drafted by grocers, suppliers and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, a government department focused on the country's agriculture and agri-food sector. The new Grocery Code of Conduct should benefit both Canadians and the food industry 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z If it feels a bit breathless at first, Bittman settles into his story soon enough, delivering a clear and compelling compendium of modern agriculture. A Sweeping History of What We Eat 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z McCrate is excited about the idea of integrating urban agriculture into the new generation of buildings going up in Seattle. Colin McCrate takes farming to the streets — and rooftops 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z His father is a professor of agricultural and biosystems engineering and the former director of the controlled environment agriculture program at the University of Arizona. Lisa Kahn, Michael Giacomelli 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z The paternalistic side of the Japanese era brought advancements in agriculture, education and urban planning, but the price was political and cultural suppression. 36 Hours in Taipei, Taiwan 2013-04-11T16:30:22Z What: The byway records the highs, lows and comebacks of such Louisiana industries as oil and gas, lumber and agriculture, including cotton. Just in time for summer: 49 new National Scenic Byways and All-American Roads 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z While most of the research into plant circadian rhythms has been done in the laboratory, there is increasing interest in how this might be applied to agriculture to address the challenges of global food security. How understanding plant body clocks could help transform how food is grown 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z He and his students spent the past decade studying ways to incorporate agriculture into urban areas and developing plans for high-rise farms. 'Vertical Farm' envisions tall future for farming 2010-10-28T10:01:00Z Philpott focuses on the environmental costs of industrial agriculture, taking aim at the Corn Belt and the feedlots that supply our meat. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z Duncan, a former entomologist who now lectures on agriculture at universities around the world, oversees an operation involving ingenious low-tech systems. Victoria, Canada is a small city with a big farm-to-table scene 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z Of all of these many water uses, agriculture generally consumes the largest amount of water, and when we measure our personal water footprint, our diet is usually the biggest part. What you eat has a water footprint — here's why it matters 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z While Mr. Brennan describes his life of gathering apples, making cider and creating a business, “Uncultivated” is more than anything a meditation on the industrialization of agriculture and all that’s been lost as a result. The Best Wine Books Are Not Always About Wine 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Normally, imported seeds require a health certificate from the agriculture ministry in the originating country and often an import permit, too. This year’s unsolicited seed scare highlights the work of legitimate seed growers 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z There were more trees now, as the land gradually shifted from the agriculture of the delta to the thick bayou forests of southern Mississippi and Louisiana. Along the Mississippi 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z It seems counterintuitive for agriculture to keep moving in the present direction. Going Home with Wendell Berry 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z “We’re all just really focusing on changing that up to make sure everything we do is authentic and taking advantage of the resources here, which is the agriculture and the people.” One of the country’s poorest cities is suddenly becoming a food mecca 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z We also found that if farmers restore habitat without expanding agriculture, profits are steadier. Coffee, brought to you by bees: How restoring habitat is a win-win for forests and farmers alike 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z A new book by an urban agriculture visionary aims to change the way people think about farming, offering a look into a future where city skyscrapers - not rural fields - produce the world's food. 'Vertical Farm' envisions tall future for farming 2010-10-28T10:01:00Z The book that he ultimately wrote is a mix of memoir, history, agriculture, science and practically everything else associated with breadmaking, all neatly stuffed into 300-plus pages. Home bread master Samuel Fromartz learns by doing — and writing While I was in Africa, I talked with scientists who were trying to improve agriculture from just about every angle. The last thing Africa needs to be debating is GMOs 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z “And they have every kind of class imaginable. I mean, they have from group therapy to learning their rights to self defense to learning permaculture and agriculture to learning English. It’s a whole roster.” City of Joy: the powerful Netflix documentary where 'everything is about love' 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z The economic value of these services is incalculable – agriculture could not continue for long without them. Insects are vanishing worldwide – making it harder to grow food 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z Advocates for regenerative agriculture, a way of farming that emphasizes building and supporting the organic matter that composes healthy soils, are dead set against age-old practices like plowing and tilling. From Good Wine, a Direct Path to the Wonders of Nature 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z I had always believed that growing tea was just as much a part of Indian agriculture as it was of China’s — an age-old custom rather than a comparatively recent introduction. Anne de Courcy: By the Book 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z Where did she think we were going to be doing agriculture in Washington Square? Marion Nestle looks back at 30 years of agitating for better food 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z Various sections focus on aspects like prehistoric settlements, European exploration, dam-building, agriculture and migration, and climate change. Review: ‘The Colorado,’ a Music-Driven Eco-Documentary 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z I put out a book about 12 or 14 years ago about the consequences of animal agriculture, our food system, called "Gristle." Moby is happily boring now: "I look at the desperation that I had ... I don't glorify the past" 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z Now, the FAA is facing heavy pressure from the entertainment, agriculture and the oil and gas industries, as well as other trade groups, to allow them to use drones for commercial uses. FAA to consider allowing drones for movies 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z The Obamas more fully embraced America’s increasing interest in food culture and agriculture, dining at notable new restaurants and opening up the White House to visiting chefs. Looking for a Trump Doctrine in the White House Kitchen 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z That challenge extends to Mr. Adams’s goal of promoting more urban agriculture, said Ms. Accles, who runs Community Food Advocates. New York’s Mayor Is Building an Agenda Around Food. Will It Satisfy? 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z “You can find books on the microbiology of cheese manufacturing, the role of gastronomy in Moliere’s plays. You can find books on kitchen antiques, contemporary agriculture, biotechnology.” Nach Waxman, Founder of a Bookstore Where Foodies Flock, Dies at 84 2021-08-07T04:00:00Z Food safety requires action and cooperation in five areas: agriculture, food technology, nutrition, microbiology and regulations. Fermented food: 5 ways to make sure it’s safe for eating 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z For the group of organic true believers who traveled here in May, the dream is to help Cuba stay loyal to a sustainable style of agriculture that rejects chemicals and genetic modification. A Rush of Americans, Seeking Gold in Cuban Soil 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z And at the same time, they cannot open the windows because they have extremely poor air quality around them because of conventional agriculture. The heat wave crushing the West is a preview of farmworkers’ hot future 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z I followed the green agriculture sign to an officer who barely glanced at the folder. That rescue dog doesn’t need a home. He needs a flight companion to get there. 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z I agree with all my heart and seek your support in tackling one of the largest underlying causes of the problems we face: animal agriculture.” Pope Francis offered $1m charity donation to go vegan for Lent 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z Besides people with permanent-resident status, the ban doesn’t apply to health-care professionals, seasonal workers in agriculture, diplomats, passengers traveling for family reasons and passengers in transit. Perspective | Everything Americans need to know about the E.U. travel ban 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z Other images depict the African American influence on agriculture, cooking and civil rights over the years. The African American Museum cafe gets off to a solid start feeding a tough crowd 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z In the past, the court has upheld federal laws regulating all manner of business, from agriculture and aviation to who can be served at the corner coffee shop. Possible trouble ahead for insurance mandate 2012-03-27T15:20:00Z But there are no signs of a conflict; either the Neolithic farmers mixed peacefully with the Mesolithic foragers, or the foragers themselves imported agriculture, took those log boats to the east and returned. Jane Smiley Explores Ancient Ireland’s Mysterious Tombs 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z Just as those programs help citizens grow local agriculture, community solar allows communities to build capacity for local power generation. 7 simple cooking tips for your eco-friendliest kitchen 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z In accounting for their simple material culture, their failure to develop writing or agriculture, he laudably rejects notions of race, noting that there is no correlation between intelligence and technological prowess. The World Until Yesterday by Jared Diamond – review 2013-01-09T10:22:31Z Politicians in attendance: a slew of senators, some deputy assistants of whichever, and the secretaries of treasury, labor, commerce and agriculture. At state dinner, Biden and Macron stand ‘shoulder to shoulder’ 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z In unincorporated farmworker communities, residents deal directly with the harmful impacts of agriculture. Healthy soil is ground zero for environmental justice in farm communities 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z “Wendy recognizes that food and agriculture were key drivers of the environmental crisis and hold potential to be drivers of the solution,” says Pollan. Google Earth: Wendy Schmidt's Planet-Forward Philanthropy 2013-06-04T14:00:19Z He went to agriculture school, served in the Oklahoma National Guard and even went to Vietnam before he stated dabbling in theater and local educational television. Wes Studi to make Oscars history for Native American actors 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z Its name in Greek means "between the rivers", a reference to the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that made it a rich center for agriculture, trade and a crossroads of civilizations. Amid jihadi gains, priceless Iraqi artefacts hit black market 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z Regenerative agriculture — agriculture that puts soil health at the forefront — is not a new practice, but it's hitting the mainstream thanks to worries about climate change and a push to sequester carbon wherever we can. What makes food regenerative? 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z It should also be recognized that in parts of the country with less agriculture and fewer tourists, like Durango and Puebla, the culinary picture is not as rosy. ‘Modern Mexican’ Steps Into the Spotlight 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z They try their hand at agriculture, medicine, politics, love, religion and education with each new adventure failing in more spectacular manner than the last. World literature tour: France 2011-03-28T11:30:33Z Sharing harvests is as old as agriculture, but what's new now is the variety of ways we can share it, whether by app, website or regular meeting. Growing your own food and foraging can help tackle your ballooning grocery bill. Here’s how 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z Large-scale agriculture has helped drive climate change, polluted lakes and bays with nutrient runoff and accelerated species losses by turning natural landscapes into monoculture crop fields. Computer science can help farmers explore alternative crops and sustainable farming methods 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z He was the genial and shy son of academics: his father, at one point, was dean of agriculture at Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical College. Review: In ‘Alex Haley: And the Books That Changed a Nation,’ a Reputation Made and Lost 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z But an effort led by the federal government, using laws, incentives or both to encourage the difficult transformations that must occur in industry, agriculture and everyday life, may help slow the pace of long-term change. For the Wine World, 2021 Brings Familiar Problems 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z By hosting public education events on water systems, the campaign aimed to educate the broader public and highlight the importance of agroecological agriculture. How Cape Town's "Day Zero" crisis helped mobilize water conservation efforts 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z In their brown robes and open-toed sandals, the brothers were into urban agriculture a century before it became trendy. Reviving monastery’s city farm, started a century before urban agriculture was cool 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z Advanced greenhouse technologies — like vertical agriculture — that create a suitable controlled environment will provide abundant leafy greens, vegetables, fruits and specialty crops, such as herbs, coffee and chocolate. Could we feed a city on Mars? 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z According to a staggering report published by the Worldwatch Institute, more than half of global greenhouse-gas emissions are caused by animal agriculture. The 3 most environmentally damaging habits you might be able to change 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z He hated industrial agriculture and saw land-rich farmers as ready to sell out the countryside. St. Pancras International was London’s Valentine to Europe 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z We may need this technology in a post-apocalyptic world, when agriculture is difficult if not impossible, and I can see it being useful in space travel. Perspective | It was only a matter of time. Lab-created ‘molecular’ wine is here. 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z The latest plan — known as the agriculture and agro-processing master plan — aims to provide, among others, comprehensive farmer assistance, development finance, agricultural research and development and extension services. South Africa’s smallholder vegetable farmers aren’t getting the finance they need 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z This isn't exactly a new idea — farming with soil health in mind is a concept nearly as old as agriculture itself. Will regenerative agriculture change how we grocery shop? 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z A retired agriculture teacher heading back to his family farm, he first heard about it when his grown son approached him asking about the crop. Nutrient-rich and local, camelina oil gains a following 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z Regenerative agriculture, also known as carbon farming, works to restore soil biology by naturally pulling literal tons of carbon out of the atmosphere, bringing the soil back to life and replenishing nutrients. Tools of the trade: 14 chef-approved essentials for making the best pizza and pasta at home 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z Launched in early September in the South Lakes Village Center, Red’s Table brings the locavore movement to Reston, the self-contained planned community whose vision of modern life apparently did not include local agriculture. Red’s Table review: Chef driven but family owned, making Reston proud 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z The country's longest-running benefit concert, Farm Aid also includes food vendors drawn from local family farms, and the Homegrown Village, where people can talk with farmers and learn more about agriculture. Farm Aid benefit concert heading to Hershey, Pa. 2012-07-09T10:57:18Z After the plane crash, instead of focusing on their survival, the passengers take turns discussing the agriculture of the regions they represent. With 'California: The Tempest,' Cornerstone makes homespun magic 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z Many people in the country of 1 billion lack access to air conditioning and nearly half its labor force works outdoors in agriculture. Extreme heat will hit India’s most vulnerable the hardest 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z Our animal agriculture has become progressively more efficient; livestock grows faster on less feed. Animal happiness matters. But how do we know what that is? 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z Dominica’s Prime Minister, Roosevelt Skerrit, whose own roof collapsed during the storm, later told CNN: “Our agriculture sector is 100 percent destroyed. Our tourism is, I would say, about 95 percent destroyed.” Edwidge Danticat: Dawn After the Tempests 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z Cellular agriculture involves taking stem cell samples and growing them in the lab to create cuts of meat identical to those from animal agriculture. Could we feed a city on Mars? 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z Topics will include local food business; access to food and nutrition education; and urban agriculture and food-system education. Chef Spike Mendelsohn to chair the District’s new Food Policy Council 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Pharos promises worker training, community development funds, and a system to buy produce from outgrowers, but the heart of the scheme will be a vast expanse of commercialized, high-tech agriculture — Iowa in Tanzania. Don’t censor the school-lunch blog 2012-06-15T16:15:00Z Most Willamette wineries are family operations, and the business of the valley is clearly agriculture, not tourism. The Oregon Trail 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z There it’s turned into one of ten kinds of cheese, each produced in a European-style mold decorated with scrolled leaves, evoking an era in agriculture when aesthetics mattered as much as efficiency. No orange blocks of cheddar: Wisconsin leads farmstead cheese movement 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z Granted, you don’t watch a documentary about sustainable agriculture for “Star Wars”-type thrills. Review: ‘Polyfaces,’ a Documentary About Sustainable Agriculture 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Genetically modified corn is the path industrial agriculture has chosen — a profoundly controversial one. T Magazine: Children of the Corn 2011-09-22T01:30:18Z It’s a practice that has been used in agriculture for thousands of years, yet somehow we seem to have become detached from this simple process. Dog poop bags are a menace. But what's the green alternative? 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z He served with distinction in the first world war, and became the founder of the Imperial Bureau of Animal Nutrition, then director of research and professor of agriculture at Aberdeen. John Boyd Orr by Alasdair Gray 2011-08-12T21:55:16Z By eliminating industrial agriculture, “Meat the Future” explains, companies like Upside could significantly reduce deforestation, methane production, animal mistreatment and the spread of disease. ‘Meat the Future’ Review: The Growth of a ‘Clean Meat’ Start-Up 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z Accompanied by the chirping of birds, Trump said hello to his secretaries of agriculture and housing. Perspective | ‘How do you get through that whole stuff?’: Donald Trump leads a nation in prayer 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z So if you made it your goal to take agriculture and put it back on a solar footing – which is what it is, it’s based on photosynthesis – it should be the easiest technology of all. Michael Pollan: Bad food is costing America its economic health 2013-12-08T19:00:00Z “I grew up here, surrounded by agriculture and aquaculture, but now there are many more small farms and specialty purveyors,” said Noah Schwartz, who opened Noah’s, a restaurant in Greenport, in 2010. Heads Up: North Fork Dining Catches Up 2011-07-29T18:55:00Z If every restaurant that supports sustainable local agriculture followed Mr. Humm’s new path, those small farms would be in deep trouble. Eleven Madison Park Explores the Plant Kingdom’s Uncanny Valley 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z The show’s jaunty title, Ms. Chalif said, reflects its “range of content — seaside, agriculture and biography.” | Long Island: An Exhibition of Century-Old Long Island Photographs at the Heckscher Museum 2013-05-03T23:39:15Z Did supporting rehabilitative agriculture matter when my purchase came with the destructive byproducts of packaging waste and emission-spewing miles? Can we learn to love old (and more sustainable) beef? 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z His property, Falcon Ridge Farm, lies between Westminster and the Mason-Dixon Line and is not just a figurative but literal reinvention of northern Maryland agriculture. Perspective | The key to a family farming renaissance? Niche crops. 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z He said there is an expected shortfall of 75,000 jobs in Pennsylvania agriculture, including horticulture, over the next decade. The horticulture industry’s age problem is bigger than you think 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z A lot of American cheese is produced on large scale farms and processed in large, industrial facilities, especially in comparison to agriculture in early 20th century Italy. Some commonly accepted "truths" about the origins of Italian food may actually be myths 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z The orchard gets its name from agriculture guru Stephens, who has spent 30+ years in the field, and is a proud descendant of the Scottish family MacGregor. Head to these orchards to go apple picking this fall 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z The executive chef Joseph Buenconsejo finds inspiration from the surrounding alpine landscape and Hudson Valley’s agriculture to offer a simple but decadent rotating menu. A Catskills Inn Gets a Modern Makeover 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z Lab-grown meat could also eliminate the horrific animal suffering embedded in our industrial agriculture system. Fake burgers will save us all! 2013-12-08T22:00:00Z There is a place in an integrated agriculture system for meat production. Should we all eat less meat? 2013-06-08T17:00:02Z However, the vast majority of Haitians are small holder farmers, and serious attention must be given to providing agriculture support and creating a seat for Haiti's farmers at the international market table. In Haiti, Tracing a Paradise Lost 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z Take organic agriculture, based on the idea of building soil health. Why everyone who is sure about a food philosophy is wrong 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z Cash's family moved to rural Dyess in 1936 because they were given 20 acres of land under President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal plan to boost agriculture. Country stars raising funds to restore Johnny Cash boyhood home 2012-10-03T18:46:33Z "Eighty-three per cent of Shropshire is still given over to agriculture," boomed Balding approvingly, as the camera swooned over a patchwork quilt of thick greens and lustrous summer yellows. TV Review: Britain By Bike and Baby Beauty Queens 2010-07-28T07:00:00Z In Schain’s view, even the largest and most professionally run companies are being built to be acquired when major agriculture, alcohol and pharmaceutical companies consider it safe to profit. Cannabis capitalism: who is making money in the marijuana industry? 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z Neighborhood beer bars and slick suburban dining rooms alike serve food that shows off Southern agriculture. A Game Plan for Eating Well in Atlanta 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z The other thing is the entire food system needs to be rewritten, we need regenerative agriculture and understand this system differently. "This is where WW III starts": "The Grab" filmmaker on the urgent scarcity created by the powerful 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z Urban agriculture is booming in New York City and other U.S. metropolitan areas. Rooftop vineyard brings local wine to New Yorkers 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z But with agriculture in my past and a ranch in my future, I was searching for a way to merge tradition with progress. Young Farmers Conference at Stone Barns Center 2013-01-03T22:25:03Z House Republicans failed to pass the agriculture bill last week before leaving town for August recess. As GOP wages "morally appalling" war on food aid, data shows 35% rise in hunger 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z You can also ask a horticultural extension specialist, according to Kirsten Ann Conrad, a master gardener and agriculture natural resources extension agent for Arlington County and the city of Alexandria. How to protect your potted plants from winter’s chill 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z It will not take many more such changes to disrupt local economies and agriculture in a manner that destabilizes local societies. From global warming to fluoride: Why do people deny science? 2013-05-25T20:30:00Z In Denmark, a national system collects data on antibiotic use in animal agriculture electronically. Getting critical antibiotics out of pork and beef production is possible 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z At the heart of it is the use of synthetic substances in organic agriculture. Organic standards fight over synthetics shows there’s room for a third system Changes in diet, along with rising incomes, are part of the picture, but the expansion of agriculture is driven by one force more powerful than any other: the increase in human numbers. Ten Billion by Stephen Emmott – review 2013-07-05T07:01:01Z Begging the question: How can a general public that's largely unaware of the existence of regenerative agriculture — let alone able to parse its wide-ranging practices — be expected to seek it out when they shop? Making sense of regenerative labels 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z To name just two examples, ranchers and environmentalists in Idaho have collectively used conservation funds to preserve agriculture and critical habitat along the Snake River. Collaboration, not fighting, is what the rural West is really about 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z Some 600 objects represent multiple industries — from agriculture to manufacturing to information technology — and focus on themes of innovation, competition and democracy. What can an old wooden cart teach us about American ingenuity? 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z During a radio interview, Dias called the supermodel a “bad Brazilian” for denouncing deforestation and said the model should be promoting Brazil’s agriculture and industries. Gisele Bundchen fires back in feud with Brazilian minister 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z He served a stint as the state’s agriculture commissioner before he was sworn in as governor in 2000. Texas Gov. Rick Perry joins 2012 GOP race 2011-08-13T17:52:00Z Huh said Korea has strength in the IT and electronic fields while Chicago and Illinois can offer many companies with expertise in financial and professional services and agriculture. South Korean president visits Chicago 2011-10-14T22:55:00Z If it's dust, he says, the odds are good that it's coming from agriculture. Dust is a growing problem. What role does farmland play? 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z Animal agriculture now contributes more to global warming than all forms of transportation combined. How you can help save the planet — and yourself — simply by substituting beans for beef 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z Our work focused on the agriculture and fisheries sectors and involved members of the National Farmers Union, Union Paysanne, EcoTrust Canada and the Native Fishing Alliance. Basic income could help create a more just and sustainable food system 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z Dandrea-Russert points to a program called "Transfarmation," run by Mercy for Animals, which has a mission of "helping farmers transition from industrial animal agriculture to growing specialty crops." In a world of ultra-processed food, here's why I am sold on lab-grown chicken 2023-08-27T04:00:00Z Worldwide, 150 governments have committed to cut methane emissions, both from agriculture and by cracking down on the largest source – fugitive leaks from natural gas pipelines and other fossil fuel infrastructure. New Zealand wants to tax cow burps (yes, you read that correctly) 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z Crane, an English paleobotanist, wants the foundation and its collections to foster study and debate in areas of keen interest to the Mellons, including garden history, botanical art, botany and horticulture, and sustainable agriculture. Opening the door to a place of plants and privilege 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z This is not to say that traditional practices are always best in agriculture. From Good Wine, a Direct Path to the Wonders of Nature 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z A hundred feet or so above the street, the containers are part of a loftier mission to develop an urban agriculture program aimed at connecting people in food deserts to affordable and nutritious vegetables. Can container gardening wipe out urban food deserts? These folks think so. 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z California is one of the most intensely cultivated states in the union, one where agriculture represents a $50 billion industry. Is farming with reclaimed water the solution to a drier future? 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z “Paris lost a lot when local agriculture went into decline,” Alleno says. | Terroir Parisien 2012-05-02T13:00:11Z Pesticides and herbicides enter the waste stream as run-off from agriculture production and home use. Emerging contaminants taint drinking water supply 2014-05-09T12:30:00Z For better or worse, it represents a conception of agriculture that’s partly about economics and ecology, and partly about locavore cooking and all-around good taste. Critic?s Notebook: Filmmakers Head to the Country, in Several Countries 2011-08-04T22:40:22Z But, dull as it sounds, it might be the key to getting our agriculture policy more in line with public health priorities. Unearthed: A rallying cry for a crop program that could change everything 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z As a research farm with an agenda larger than selling fruits and vegetables for a profit, Muirkirk strives to answer questions about agriculture grown in the D.C. area’s specific climate. UDC’s research farm embraces multiple missions: grow, teach and discover “Earth” transcends its origins as an assignment to exalt the collectivizing of Soviet agriculture to become a mystical rumination on nature’s cycles of death and rebirth. The Week Ahead: Sept. 2 — 7 2012-09-02T07:40:05Z Then, a few months later, Mr. Dennis reached out to him on Facebook, and the two bonded over their interest in using agriculture to keep their shared heritage alive. Finding a Lost Strain of Rice, and Clues to Slave Cooking 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z The Everglades may be the posterchild for both the richness of Florida’s wilderness and its despoilment, but it’s hard to find any part of the state that hasn’t suffered from agriculture or development. Jeff VanderMeer on the beauty and weirdness of Florida 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z “People we talk to in general agriculture are very concerned about it.” The horticulture industry’s age problem is bigger than you think 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z By contrast, in the case of regenerative agriculture, the nuances of soil composition, climate, plant and animal diversity are front and center. How masa harina changed the course of human history — and gave us better tacos 2023-07-16T04:00:00Z But without more research and standards, observers worry that investments in climate-smart agriculture will support greenwashing — misleading claims about environmental benefits — rather than a fundamentally different system of production. These four challenges will shape the next farm bill — and how the US eats 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z Mr. Peterson spent his later years at General Mills trying to educate farmers on the virtues of regenerative agriculture, a sustainable farming practice that aims to improve the soil. Two Chefs Moved to Rural Minnesota to Expand on Their Mission of Racial Justice 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z Land consolidation is tied to power and control — it puts the wealth generated by the nation’s agriculture industry into fewer hands. For a new generation of farmers, accessing land is the first step toward tackling consolidation 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z “Puerto Rico is an incredibly fertile, lush place, but because of its colonial status, it was organized for industrial agriculture,” said Von Diaz, a writer who was born in San Juan and raised in Atlanta. Local Food in Puerto Rico Finds Energy in Recovery 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z Already the world's third largest exporter of beef and the No.4 wheat exporter, Australia is eyeing agriculture as a key economic driver as a decade-long mining investment boom that brought the country riches wanes. Even in isolated, pristine Tasmania, pressure to allow GMO farming 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z Denselow surveyed major areas – agriculture, trade, the economy, oil, corruption, education, music, and the flourishing Nollywood cinema – succinctly and with some really good interviews. Radio review: Africa at 50 2010-09-27T05:45:00Z Besides people with permanent resident status and those who hold long-term visas, the ban doesn’t apply to health care professionals, seasonal workers in agriculture, diplomats, passengers traveling for family reasons and passengers in transit. What you need to know about the EU banning Americans from visiting due to COVID-19 | Travel Troubleshooter 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z Coldiretti, an Italian farmers' association that supported the ban, added the move would protect agriculture from "the attacks of multinational companies". A mammoth meatball hints at a future of exotic lab-grown meats 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Fuller struggled with agriculture, and eventually became a pipe fitter for Pacific Gas & Electric. Mary Fuller McChesney, Bay Area Artist and Historian, Dies at 99 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z I see organic agriculture as a whole lot of people doing their level best to farm responsibly. Organic standards fight over synthetics shows there’s room for a third system His cover was usually a State Department cover, ‘second secretary of agriculture.’ Television: AMC?s ?Rubicon? Offers Spies and Paranoia 2010-07-23T20:51:00Z The dairy digesters, in particular, have spurred vigorous debate about the goals of the state’s climate-smart agriculture programs. How will California’s climate ambitions reshape food and agriculture? 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z Every umbrella sold supports a family in need with one year of health, agriculture, life or disaster insurance, too. 15 Valentine's Day gifts beyond chocolate, roses and wine 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z Vegetables and fruit are fine, but he avoids foods like bread that were unavailable before the invention of agriculture. 2010-01-09T03:29:00Z Throughout the 20th century, the trend in agriculture — what we now call conventional agriculture — was isolation. From Good Wine, a Direct Path to the Wonders of Nature 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z “Paleo” refers to a diet that claims to mimic the food eaten by our ancestors in the Paleolithic era, the old Stone age, before the advent of agriculture. 5 biggest food trends of 2013 2013-12-17T12:50:00Z Q: The agriculture industry is so interesting because it is a major driver of the climate problem, but it is also more vulnerable than any other industry to the pressures of climate change. ‘We really need to wake up quickly’: Al Gore warns of a looming food crisis caused by climate change 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z At the end of the 19th century, Sarasota took shape through agriculture and fishing along the Gulf. New Art Museum Adds to Sarasota’s Cultural Heritage 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z Greenwalt, primarily a wheat farmer, hadn’t taught agriculture for 30 years for nothing. Nutrient-rich and local, camelina oil gains a following 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z “The root of it was a hyper-anti-regulatory agenda with no respect for organics or other forms of sustainable agriculture.” How America’s Food System Could Change Under Biden 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z Over the decades, irrigated agriculture in the United States has soared, even though total water consumed through irrigation has dropped with gains in efficiency since 1995. Dairy, drought and the drying of the American West 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z The politics of Indian agriculture was soon to careen wildly again. The legendary story of Thangam Philip: food scientist, nutritionist, chef and mentor 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z Italy’s main agriculture organization, Coldiretti, estimates there are more than 2 million wild boars in the country, the Associated Press reported. Shakira says wild boars in Barcelona attacked her and stole her purse 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z It took our species centuries to work out the details of spoken language, the written word, agriculture, indoor plumbing. Buzzr Presents the Evolution of Game Shows and Ourselves 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z More efficient agriculture and the invention of artificial fertilizers permitted humans to produce food sufficient to support numbers that would be unthinkable for other animals of our physical size. From global warming to fluoride: Why do people deny science? 2013-05-25T20:30:00Z I’ll supplement them with some of the great beans of agriculture, too much coffee, maybe a glass of wine and some chocolate. Was ancient man a vegetarian? 2012-08-27T23:23:00Z The whole point of organic agriculture is soil. Is organic agriculture really better for the environment? 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z The agriculture department maintains a list of accidents at Florida’s largest theme parks. Boy also injured fingers on Disney World ride 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z For my older relatives, the choice was simply a matter of economics and agriculture. Ham or Lamb? The Easter Choice May Be Changing 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z We showcase the local agriculture and the beauty of the island.” A Hawaii Food Festival Goes Local 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z “Cities are battlegrounds in the pandemic, and the ability to move agriculture into cities is no longer just a flight of fancy for agriculture students who want to put gardens on top of skyscrapers.” The Museum Is Closed, but Its Tomato Man Soldiers On 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z He said the covenant that God made with Noah — not to destroy the world with more floods — allowed humans to settle in one place and develop agriculture. St. John’s College has the proper climate for vintners Q: What are the most crucial policy measures that need to be taken to encourage regenerative farming in the U.S. and climate-smart agriculture broadly? ‘We really need to wake up quickly’: Al Gore warns of a looming food crisis caused by climate change 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z Loamy soil, prodigious snowmelt and lots of sunshine sustain a richly diverse agriculture whose color and character seem more aligned with parts of the Midwest than the “Left Coast.” In the Yakima Valley, Serious Wines and Sweeping Vistas 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z According to Goswami, it's important that the farm bill protects the investments made through the Inflation Reduction Act, which included billions for sustainable agriculture and clean energy. Small farmers in New England are starting to rebuild, but climate extremes are here to stay 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z Rather than compromise the shelves, she looked to local farms for inspiration, devising a plan modelled after “community-supported agriculture,” commonly referred to by its initials, C.S.A. A C.S.A. for Books 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z “Here, we are trying to do what nature does naturally, to bring those processes back into agriculture.” Perennial wheat is an ecologist’s dream. Soon it may be what’s for dinner. 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z Roughly 6 percent of the area labor force is involved in agriculture and related industries, according to the local chamber of commerce. 'Pink Slime' case against ABC a challenge to press in era of 'fake news' 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z For her, it’s an important forum to learn about food and agriculture. Where a Michelin-Starred Chef Goes in San Francisco 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z Additionally, human activities such as mining and agriculture can also increase arsenic in food and water sources. Arsenic contamination of food and water is a global public health concern 2023-06-05T04:00:00Z So, she asked, how many of you think you might consider a career in agriculture after high school? What nobody told me about small farming: I can’t make a living 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z My argument is that this ended official thought about agriculture. Going Home with Wendell Berry 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z “After watching the drain of our young people leaving agriculture, this is the first sign we’ve had in quite some time—hemp is bringing people back to farming.” For young farmers, hemp is a "gateway crop" 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z With Congress working on another farm bill, farmworker-led organizations hope to capitalize on the omnibus food and agriculture legislation as an opportunity to enshrine some key protections in federal law. It’s been a big year for the labor movement. What about farmworkers? 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z With broad agreement that the future of animal agriculture has to change, the big money investors are moving quickly. The unstoppable rise of veganism: how a fringe movement went mainstream 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z Feeding Africa's growing population is a big development challenge for governments, policy makers and agriculture experts. Tanzania’s tomato harvest goes to waste 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z Climate shifts and the departure of young men to cities have made agriculture a constant and losing struggle. An Art Critic in Africa: In Mali, Finding Art as Authentic as Life Itself 2012-04-16T18:59:43Z Through its envisioned heat recuperation for indoor agriculture, QScale aims to contribute to local food autonomy. Can the heat from running computers help grow our food? It’s complicated 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z The Australian agriculture minister Barnaby Joyce, who threatened that the terriers would be put down, announced on Friday night simply: “Dogs gone.” Johnny Depp's dogs leave Australia just hours before deadline 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z But investors enamored of smart agriculture are betting heavily on them. No Soil. No Growing Seasons. Just Add Water and Technology. 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z “We’ve always said the biggest problem with the agriculture industry is growing things where they shouldn’t be grown,” Mr. Hart said. A Tale of Two Vineyards 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z Elsewhere, the llanos environment is threatened by oil drilling, intensive agriculture and overgrazing. On a Colombian Savanna, Hawks, Caimans and So Many Stars 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z Nowadays, tales of the city’s slow recovery tend to focus on plucky hipsters from Los Angeles or Brooklyn colonizing abandoned spaces, opening pickle companies or tilling little urban agriculture plots. The Lights Are On in Detroit 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z Directed and written by Markus Imhoof, a Swiss filmmaker, the movie is a tutorial on the biology and social behavior of bees and their exploitation in the age of industrial agriculture. Movie Review: ‘More Than Honey,’ a Documentary by Markus Imhoof 2013-06-11T22:11:19Z “The only culture in Delhi is agriculture,” went another put-down. On the Edge of Delhi, a Dynamic Cultural Scene Takes Shape 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z Rural Japan is losing population, and traditional agriculture is waning. Few Americans know about this mysterious, remote valley in southern Japan 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z The nation’s first agricultural fair was held in Berkshire County in the early 19th century, and in 1986, when the country’s first two community-supported agriculture farms were established, one was in the southern Berkshires. Journeys: In the Berkshires, Eating Locally Is a Tradition 2010-08-18T21:19:00Z These farms arrive at a pivotal moment, as swaths of the country wither in the heat and drought of climate change, abetted in part by certain forms of agriculture. No Soil. No Growing Seasons. Just Add Water and Technology. 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z The goddess of agriculture is colored in copper earth tones. Colossal puppets help create a monumental ‘Tempest’ by the Shakespeare Theatre Co. 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z Before local food was trendy, before ethnic vegetables were chic, before urban agriculture took hold, Ngo was transforming the tired suburban model of lawn and foundation shrubbery into all of those things. Asian vegetables enrich and extend the autumn garden 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z Almost two-thirds of Italy’s farmland has been hit by a prolonged drought this year, costing Italian agriculture some 2 billion euros, according to farmers association Coldiretti. Italy's white truffles feel the heat at Alba auction 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z Fueled by an abundance of fishing and agriculture, the restaurant scene is brimming with experimentation. T Magazine: Kiwi Confections 2011-09-15T13:00:36Z But industrial agriculture in general — the foundation of all of this — is an even bigger contributor, and that’s not all about meat. Meat Is Murder. But You Know That Already. 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z Pistol and Boo made international headlines after the agriculture minister Barnaby Joyce issued their owners an ultimatum: return to California or face having the pets put down. Johnny Depp's publicist denies he has walked off set as dogs inquiry continues 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z “The northern part is heavily corporate. The southern is focused on agriculture.” Delaware is famous for corporations, chemicals, chickens — and now, finally, a president 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z A: We want a single, magic answer that’s going to solve a big, complicated problem, and I think that in agriculture and food and climate, these systemic approaches are usually more likely to be successful. ‘We really need to wake up quickly’: Al Gore warns of a looming food crisis caused by climate change 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z Recovered animal bones and charred plant remains have revealed the importance of cows, sheep and pigs and the prevalence of olives and grapes in local Mycenaean agriculture. Unearthing Everyday Life at an Ancient Site in Greece 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z The risks to animal welfare and the environment inherent in this system will remain without more radical changes to the scale and density of animal agriculture. How free-range eggs became the norm in supermarkets — and sold customers a lie 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z After I returned home to Nagano, Steven McGreevy, a scholar of sustainable agriculture at Kyoto’s Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, raised some of these concerns in an email. Can we build a sustainable Japan? 2013-03-12T18:50:00Z So there is hope yet that the movement may help turn the tide against industrial agriculture. ‘Regenerative agriculture’ is all the rage — but it’s not going to fix our food system 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z The equine sculptures, based on the Scottish legend of water-based spirits, are a reference to the role of the horse in Scottish agriculture and industry, Scott says. Public art: What is it for? 2012-09-18T02:15:48Z FoodxFilm Festival is a new global, virtual festival of food-related documentary films and series, mostly full-length, that examine social issues, agriculture, the environment, the sea and the future of food. A New Festival Presents Food on Film 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z The vast expanses of shrub-steppe lands that birds such as sage grouse and sage sparrows require to survive are disappearing, fragmented by housing developments and agriculture. Jump into bird-watching with Sagebrush bird count 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z "America's largest segment of agriculture … is in a catastrophic crisis already, and has been since 2015. We pray for your attention." With their livelihoods under threat, livestock producers pin their hopes on labeling 2020-05-03T04:00:00Z “Historically, there’s no industry here apart from agriculture,” he said. Remembering Steven Spurrier, Whose Contest Shook the Wine World 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z Yet, agriculture and higher education will be our most successful exports. Science fiction’s 2012 2012-08-05T16:00:00Z As part of a drive to tackle Japan’s demographic time-bomb, the government in 2009 started a program to financially help local municipalities recruit urbanites to work in agriculture and other sectors for eventual settlement. 'Vanishing village' looks to Japan's LDP for survival 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z Acknowledging that he recommended Mr. De Caro for the job with the agriculture ministry, Mr. Dell’Utri said, “After that, he did everything by himself.” Book Theft in Italy, With a Hint of Politics 2013-12-22T21:48:46Z As Keynes anticipated, too, the number of jobs in agriculture, manufacturing, and mining has plummeted. The Bullshit-Job Boom 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Now there are 32, according to the state department of agriculture. Could the raw milk boom be a lifeline for struggling farmers? 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z Concert-goers can mingle with farmers and learn about agriculture through interactive exhibits at the "Homegrown Village." Behind the music, Farm Aid's work helps farmers 2012-09-20T22:34:09Z In order to better support the involvement of Indigenous peoples in agriculture, more accurate data is needed. Indigenous food sovereignty requires better and more accurate data collection 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z His response: “They would indeed be far estranged from the Ents, and any rapprochement would be difficult — unless experience of industrialized and militarized agriculture had made them a little more anarchic.” Review | Lose yourself in the places that inspired J.R.R. Tolkien 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z Hunger in America should be a bigger issue in the campaign but this is more related to income inequality than the agriculture industry. When Will Food Issues Be on Politicians Plates? 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z And what people wrote back in the 1960s and 1970s about food and art and politics and agriculture are so important to what I’m thinking about right now. ‘Food Is Culture’: Alice Waters on the Cookbook That Changed Her Life 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z Summer’s bounty is here, with backyard gardens, farmers markets and community-supported agriculture deliveries loading our larders with fresh, delicious fruits and vegetables. What wines to drink with lobster rolls, barbecue and other favorite summer foods 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z Furthermore, welfare science in agriculture is focused on identifying and responding to poor welfare states, and not to actually optimizing happiness or quality of life. Are zoo animals happy? There’s a simple empathy test we can apply 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z “Wages, health care, work hours and kitchen literacy are just as critical to changing our diets as the agriculture we practice or the places at which we shop.” Books of The Times: Tracie McMillan Writes ?The American Way of Eating? 2012-02-20T22:14:42Z Like Iolanta, Perséphone — daughter of Demeter, the goddess of agriculture — is a creature of extraordinary sensibilities. Extraordinary Creatures, and Some Elusive Ones, at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z If there’s one thing that everyone working on climate change and agriculture in California agrees on, it’s that isolated, incremental approaches are no match for the task ahead. How will California’s climate ambitions reshape food and agriculture? 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z That kind of shift, really improving the way industrial agriculture works, making is more sustainable, more diverse. Forget local & slow, a hotter more crowded world means technology will have giant role in your food 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z Like some other movements, regenerative agriculture is increasingly being embraced by corporations. ‘Regenerative agriculture’ is all the rage — but it’s not going to fix our food system 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z If you look at the industrialization of agriculture, it is essentially taking this solar technology and putting it on fossil fuel. Michael Pollan: Bad food is costing America its economic health 2013-12-08T19:00:00Z The magnitude and rapidity of these potential effects should place the reduction or elimination of animal agriculture at the forefront of strategies for averting disastrous climate change. Peter Singer states "we are gambling with the future of our planet for the sake of hamburgers" 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z A must-watch because… A poetic allegory for the war between traditional and modern agriculture that doesn’t hit you over the head. 20 must-see documentaries to explain the world in 2020 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z He said he also planned to open a floating fruit and vegetable market on the lake to promote sustainable agriculture in Vu Linh. Going Local in Vietnam’s Villages 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z A leather alternative using plant-based materials and agriculture biproducts free of synthetic plastics was used for a patch on the closing ceremony’s white stretch denim pant, which is made of U.S.-grown cotton. Ralph Lauren unveils crisp white Team USA Olympic uniforms 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z A year earlier it also announced the Clean Air Nonroad Diesel Rule, which places tough emissions requirements on diesel engines used in various industries including construction, agriculture and mining. America's Most Polluted Cities 2010-04-28T14:00:00Z Evergreen State Fair: Carnival, vendors, entertainment, animal and agriculture displays, Friday through Sept. Weekend Preview: Evergreen State Fair, Sand in the City 2012-08-22T20:12:12Z Carnival, vendors, entertainment, animal and agriculture displays, motor sports events, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. daily through Sept. Community Corner: Evergreen State Fair, Tibet Fest, Beacon Rocks 2012-08-24T16:53:04Z This downtown restaurant and gourmet market sources ingredients from small farms in West Michigan’s agriculture belt. You’re going where? Kalamazoo is tired of your Creedence Clearwater jokes 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z You would have demonstrated your power, but you’ll basically be taking agriculture back to 1995-96 when it was introduced, which was no utopia. Michael Pollan: Bad food is costing America its economic health 2013-12-08T19:00:00Z But he was quick to add that La Vie Vu Linh is not a hotel but a project that blends tourism, ecologically conscious agriculture and long-term education for his employees. Going Local in Vietnam’s Villages 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z For the past 15 years, it has received both mandatory funding through the farm bill and discretionary funding from the agriculture appropriations process. Making cheese or jam? A USDA program to pay farmers more for their crops faces cuts—again 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z But Joyce, who is also Australia’s minister for agriculture, seemed unsure. Johnny Depp and Amber Heard record awkward video apology over dogs 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z The broader arts and culture sector that includes Hollywood and publishing constitutes an $878 billion industry that is a bigger part of the American economy than sports, transportation, construction or agriculture. A ‘Great Cultural Depression’ Looms for Legions of Unemployed Performers 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z An Iowa native who watched his hometown fade away after a nearby factory closed down, he is convinced that rural life cannot be sustained by agriculture alone. Movie Review: ‘Promised Land,’ With Matt Damon, Directed by Gus Van Sant 2012-12-27T23:24:39Z Although Indigenous peoples have been participating in the agriculture sector since precolonial times, it hasn't been until recently that contemporary agriculture has become a policy focus for Indigenous community development and well-being. Indigenous food sovereignty requires better and more accurate data collection 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z Min is the Egyptian god of fertility and agriculture who was central in the coronations of new pharaohs. Let’s talk about the penis: From South Korea’s Penis Park to the Washington Monument, the phallus is everywhere 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z He attended a public vocational-technical high school that specialized in agriculture, then graduated from Temple University with a degree in horticulture. This flower power couple curates more than 300 acres of Washington’s downtown 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z In 1995, she wrote a letter to President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore that proposed an organic garden at the White House and a nationwide school curriculum based on sustainable agriculture. Alice Waters on Sex, Drugs and Sustainable Agriculture 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z This jumpy, beautifully acted film offers a knowing portrait of a hardy regional counterculture devoted to ecological balance and sustainable agriculture, with a radical political fringe endangering this peaceful way of life. Critic’s Notebook: The Tribeca Film Festival Begins Its 13th Season 2014-04-15T16:18:57Z These scholars argued that the "primitiveness" of Indigenous agriculture was reflected in the technologies they used. Indigenous food sovereignty requires better and more accurate data collection 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z “This finding is evidence of an intensive practice of agriculture,” according to the statement. Prehistoric city offers glimpse of ancient living near Jerusalem 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z And so it's very much a book about climate change, plants and carbon fixing and carbon sequestering, botany, agriculture, bread and roses, wheat, and lots of scientific discourses and political controversies, and the rest. George Orwell stopped and smelled the roses, and Rebecca Solnit wants modern people to do the same 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z There was no money, but he wanted his sons to become a doctor, engineer, an agriculture expert. Vivek Murthy wants to fix our mental health crisis. But how much can he do? 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z “Planting durians is not just a hobby today as durians are considered as ‘gold’ in the agriculture industry,” the agriculture department said in e-mailed comments to Reuters. Malaysia bets on durian as China goes bananas for world's smelliest... 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z We are such a food producing community, from the farming, from the agriculture standpoint, but also the bakers and the chefs and the restaurants that we have. "I bake for every emotion" — Zoë François on finding connection through cake 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z Despite Indigenous communities' increasing desire to engage in large-scale commercial agriculture, there is still a lack of data about Indigenous engagement in the agriculture sector in CANZUS. Indigenous food sovereignty requires better and more accurate data collection 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z Bittman’s treatise on agriculture is urgent but realistic about the challenges facing us. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z The people in Detroit are interested in the entrepreneurial side of food and urban agriculture. Entrepreneurs Find A Way Around Detroit's Troubles 2012-05-31T18:35:13Z Along with the restored kitchen, visitors to the “African/American” exhibit in Harlem will learn about African American foodways, from agriculture and the culinary arts, hospitality, distilling and brewing to entrepreneurship and migration. The Ebony Test Kitchen, Where Black Cuisine Was Celebrated, Is Reborn 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z In a recent e-mail interview, Mr. Binelli discussed the rise of urban agriculture in Detroit, apportioning blame for the city's problems and more. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Mark Binelli on His Book 'Detroit City Is the Place to Be' 2012-12-05T19:36:36Z None of them have any experience with agriculture but all feel that something can be learned from working the land at Gareth Wyn Jones’s family farm in the mountainous Snowdonia region. What’s on TV Monday: ‘The Bachelor’ and ‘The Family Farm’ 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z Now, thanks to technology, less than 2 percent of the American population works directly in agriculture. The Queen 2012-06-11T11:00:00Z "These are important ways we create jobs, support agriculture, put food on the table." Noticing your favorite spirit is absent from liquor store and bar shelves? You're not alone 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z Partner Andy Mohr, 37, says that access to great water and the abundance of local agriculture on nearby farms makes it easy to source ingredients locally. One of the country’s poorest cities is suddenly becoming a food mecca 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z "This is a big success for our country, our dietary traditions and our culture," said the Italian agriculture minister, Giancarlo Galan. Mediterranean diet set for place on world heritage list 2010-08-23T15:03:00Z “The Berkshires are really on the cusp of breaking into a more sustainable economy, via local foods and agriculture,” she said. Journeys: In the Berkshires, Eating Locally Is a Tradition 2010-08-18T21:19:00Z But while leisure travelers halted their vacations, essential workers — truckers, doctors and construction, maintenance, food- processing, agriculture and government workers — didn’t stop traveling. Amid the pandemic, motels stage a major comeback 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z To drive that change, there needs to be a new level of awareness of the true extent of the risks to agriculture. Climate change threatens to cause "synchronized harvest failures" across the globe 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z Of course, the vegan movement already existed, but Cowspiracy’s success reflects a new emphasis on animal agriculture, in particular cattle farming, in the context of the deepening climate crisis. The unstoppable rise of veganism: how a fringe movement went mainstream 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z The American government policy on what we supported and subsidised in agriculture was a social experiment on a whole generation of children. “We’ve become a food culture” 2012-11-19T12:45:00Z It was established by Lucius Hamilton Hayward Jr., the grandson of an Englishman from the West Indies who worked in agriculture and mercantile. Red Beans and Rice Feed New Orleans’ Soul 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z But for some, the quest is less about the money than about what they say is the soul of Cuban agriculture and how people eat. A Rush of Americans, Seeking Gold in Cuban Soil 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z We are so used to considering insects as pests that it is tempting to think that, in a world with fewer of them, agriculture might prosper as never before. Insects are vanishing worldwide – making it harder to grow food 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z FoodPrint's weekly email is another way to stay informed about the latest in food news, label information, changes in policy, sustainable agriculture and more. 5 things you should know before buying a chocolate bar 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Good-paying full-time jobs are scarce; employment is mostly seasonal, centred around tourism and agriculture. In Search of Virginia Woolf’s Lost Eden in Cornwall 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z According to the report, the three major factors holding women back are lower work force participation, fewer hours worked, and the fact that women are disproportionately represented in low-productivity sectors like agriculture. Gender Inequality Costs the Global Economy $28 Trillion 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z Mr. Hilton spoke about decentralizing concentrations of power, including, perhaps, breaking up banks, health insurance, “giant agriculture” and telecom companies. A British Power Broker Sets His Sights on Washington 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z A farmstead and cidery in the Olympic foothills that produces tasty hard cider and showcases sustainable agriculture. Hike beach to Dungeness lighthouse, then quaff cider on the way home 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z The widespread use of sewage sludge in agriculture remains controversial: Environmental groups say it causes an odor and health problems for farm workers and surrounding residents and fear it is poisoning the soil. Would you use human waste in your garden? 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z Academia understands those connections, but there’s surprisingly little overlap between people working on different issues in food, like nutrition, sustainable agriculture, and hunger. Marion Nestle looks back at 30 years of agitating for better food 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z In addition to agriculture, the Freedom School teaches tangible job skills such as construction, landscaping, janitorial work, photography, journalism, and video production. Fresno’s Freedom School is changing the narrative on farming for black youth 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z “I want to expose people to the agricultural side of the wine industry and get people excited about urban agriculture.” Rooftop vineyard brings local wine to New Yorkers 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z The structure of big agriculture provides the perfect environment for abuse. Television Review: ‘Rape in the Fields’ on PBS’s ‘Frontline’ and Univision 2013-06-24T21:38:35Z It came into being between 70,000 and 100,000 years ago, and it led to the invention of pretty much everything, bows and arrows, pottery, agriculture, science, skateboards and so on. Does Autism Hold the Key to What Makes Humans Special? 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z Your work often highlights the intersection of agriculture and nature. After a Hard Day’s Writing, Michael Pollan Likes to Unwind With a Novel 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z The benefits of integrating digital infrastructure and agriculture are not as clear-cut as their promoters suggest. Can the heat from running computers help grow our food? It’s complicated 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z There might not be much opposition because the state doesn't have much history with it, and very little reclaimed water goes towards agriculture. Is farming with reclaimed water the solution to a drier future? 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z The labeling should also have a positive impact on the economy, particularly tourism, agriculture, fishing and catering — or, as some would describe it, gastro-diplomacy. Who invented jollof rice? Senegal beats Ghana and Nigeria to the title 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z While the relationship between Black people and land was corrupted by slavery, Mr. Ross is among a growing group that is reclaiming American land and working to transform agriculture. One Huge Hog, One Long Day and a Nourishing Southern Tradition 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z They learned what they needed to know about agriculture with the help of their neighbors. For These New York Farmers, Harvest Time Means High Times 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z Rodale to part the chemical sea that had flooded agriculture after World War II and lead so many of our gardeners and farmers to the compost heap. The essential compost pile However, a few groups, such as Cartagena Paws, might need you to run over to the customs or agriculture office, because the plane reservation is in your name. Animal-rescue centers want you to be a flight volunteer 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z At a women-run bookstore in Oakland, Calif., the pair picked up a magazine called “Country Women” published by a feminist agriculture collective in Northern California. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Second-Wave Feminism 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z The renewed interest in space can only benefit agriculture here on Earth by providing new opportunities to improve agriculture. Space agriculture boldly grows food where no one has grown before 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z "One the contrary, they are helpful and produce things that help humans and agriculture." Egyptian man grows 'Beard of Bees', hopes to promote apian benefits 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z Not to mention sinkholes exacerbated by terrible development decisions and oil spills or, as we’re seeing this year, toxic algae caused in part by Scott ignoring scientists’ recommendations about run-off from large-scale agriculture. Jeff VanderMeer on the beauty and weirdness of Florida 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z Having established himself as an authority on food and agriculture, Pollan now has to navigate the challenges of being both a journalist and an advocate. Michael Pollan: Bad food is costing America its economic health 2013-12-08T19:00:00Z And the more I delved into it, the more realized that the earliest history of pigs in the area was really a story of agriculture and survival. How the famous swimming pigs of the Bahamas came to be 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Some farmers and organizations are rethinking naturalness in agriculture, and I think it’s worth looking more closely at the debate. Organic standards fight over synthetics shows there’s room for a third system U.S. corporate agriculture tends toward monoculture farming — in the simplest terms, one giant farm specializing in one crop. Was a USDA scientist muzzled because of his bee research? 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z Through most of pre-industrial history Malthusian logic reigned; workers laboured in subsistence agriculture and productivity gains quickly led to unsustainable population growth. A grand tour 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z The widespread, routine use of antibiotics in animal agriculture in the U.S. contributes to the development of antibiotic resistance, which basically means bacteria adapt to outsmart the drugs. Getting critical antibiotics out of pork and beef production is possible 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z “We need productive critique if we are ushering in a new technology,” said Isha Datar, executive director of New Harvest, a nonprofit research institute focused on accelerating breakthroughs in cellular agriculture. Steaks Grown From Human Cells Spark Interest and Outrage 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z This style of preservation will be explored at New York City’s first fermentation festival, organized for the start of Beer Week and benefiting the Brewers Guild and Just Food, a group that promotes community-supported agriculture. Celebrating the Funky Magic Behind Cheese, Beer and Pickles 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z The Hudson Valley is known for its agriculture, and the town of Marlborough, which includes the farming hamlets of Marlboro and Milton, fits the bill. Swinging on the Hudson: An Unlikely Haven for Jazz 2010-03-04T22:38:00Z Farming needs new invention, better support from consumers and "farm to table" agriculture and aquaculture. Alice Waters on Sex, Drugs and Sustainable Agriculture 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z A graduate of a historically Black college known for empowering African-American farmers, Frazier said he’s received the training necessary to thrive in agriculture. For young farmers, hemp is a "gateway crop" 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z The challenge now is to apply that knowledge to agriculture. How understanding plant body clocks could help transform how food is grown 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z And voices in regenerative agriculture have called for a shift in the movement's agenda, putting more emphasis on equity, justice and diversity. ‘Regenerative agriculture’ is all the rage — but it’s not going to fix our food system 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z “Having the secretary of agriculture at your table was considered a hot date,” said Page. The rise and fall — or maybe rebirth? — of the White House correspondents’ dinner 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z For more than 55 years, the center has attracted scientists interested in learning about the environment generally and forests, estuaries, wetlands and agriculture specifically. Along the Chesapeake Bay, Smithsonian scientists research at a vast outdoor laboratory 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z Australian agriculture is also highly sensitive to climate shocks because it is mostly rainfed — literally dependent on water that falls from the sky. Climate change threatens to cause "synchronized harvest failures" across the globe 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z Why doesn’t another agency that’s not promoting U.S. agriculture handle that? Katie Couric vs. Big Food: She’s a “strong feminist,” but not an “activist” 2014-05-06T22:59:00Z For me, working to end animal agriculture, working to end the use of animals by and for humans, that's my life's work. Moby is happily boring now: "I look at the desperation that I had ... I don't glorify the past" 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z It's likely you can find an agriculture adventure right in your backyard. Vermont’s agritourism industry is bustling with baking, cheese-making classes and more 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z They also cause large scale agriculture destruction, incurring massive loses to farmers. India's northern state increases incentive for culling monkeys 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Moore, 50, is a California native who grew up in Davis, the daughter of an agriculture professor at UC Davis. Rachel Moore of ABT named L.A. Music Center's next president and CEO If they go on to work in, say, agriculture, it’s a great way of understanding why they might plant in a different way.” Putting New Tools in Students' Hands 2010-08-22T19:30:00Z Other ideas remain somewhat vague, like a general call for more urban agriculture, including hydroponics and rooftop farms. New York’s Mayor Is Building an Agenda Around Food. Will It Satisfy? 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z Once I learned more about how animal agriculture negatively impacts the environment, I continued to phase meat out of my diet — partially at times, entirely at others. What's the actual difference between vegan and vegetarian? 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z This data is crucial to informing policies that set out to support Indigenous engagement and diversity in the agriculture sector. Indigenous food sovereignty requires better and more accurate data collection 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z His legacy for Napa wine, however, is his advocacy in the 1980s of an ordinance that preserved much of Napa Valley for agriculture instead of suburban development. Raise a glass to mark the recent passing of three wine visionaries 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z In June, Heard took a shot at the agriculture minister in a "Magic Mike XXL"-related interview that aired in Australia. Johnny Depp's wife, Amber Heard, hit with dog-smuggling charges over Yorkies' Aussie adventure 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z The Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that beef production alone accounts for 41 percent of global agriculture’s greenhouse gas emissions. Fake burgers will save us all! 2013-12-08T22:00:00Z There’s an inviting garden where you can have drinks and elevated bar snacks while inspecting the backyard agriculture. Top New York Restaurants of 2016 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z “Maple is a bright spot in agriculture,” he says. Vermont’s maple syrup business is booming, thanks to technology and changing tastes 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z California's agriculture industry launched a similar campaign in 1998, hoping to recruit welfare recipients and unemployed workers to work on farms, he said. Immigrant farm workers' challenge: Take our jobs 2010-06-24T21:42:00Z He prayed that “Cambodia avoid any natural disasters that would destroy the agriculture harvests which are the lives of the people and country.” Cambodia's royal oxen predict plentiful rice harvest amid EU tariffs 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Having the agriculture and agro-processing master plan in place is helpful. South Africa’s smallholder vegetable farmers aren’t getting the finance they need 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z This week, the average retail price for a frozen turkey is $1.99 a pound, according to the agriculture department’s weekly turkey report. Turkeys Will Be Scarcer and Pricier Than Ever This Thanksgiving 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Precision agriculture powered by new technologies, like AI, can help secure future food production. AI can track bees on camera. Here’s how that will help farmers 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z When confronted with the realities of the animal agriculture industry, with its wide range of exploitation of human and non-human animals, I realized that without an animal rights pedagogy, my anti-oppression lens was incomplete. How examining my whiteness brought me to animal rights 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z While sectors like energy and transportation can help slow the tide of emissions, agriculture can act as a carbon sink, and actually put carbon back in the ground. How will California’s climate ambitions reshape food and agriculture? 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z Their aim was to protect water for use in local agriculture and other endeavors; in short, guaranteeing that the rights of nature and people supersede that of corporations. The Mora River Valley Faces a New Battle 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Every year at FoodPrint we look back on the big events in the world of food and agriculture and try to predict what might happen in the year ahead. Looking ahead: Top food and agriculture stories for 2023 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z She would study agriculture, because farming is big business back home. For this ‘Top Chef’ star, one tropical fruit represents both past and present 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z Coors Field in Denver, as well as Oracle Park in San Francisco, both have farms, further demonstrating the possibilities of this distinct type of urban agriculture. Field of greens: The curious history of ballparks doubling as edible gardens 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z In a section discussing the need to reduce agriculture emissions he proposes using Peace Corps volunteers to bring sustainable agricultural practices to low-income countries, as though this were a novel idea. Facing the Climate Change Crisis, Three Books Offer Some Ambitious Proposals 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z Was agriculture that struggled to compete abroad doomed to be exploitative locally? How Coffee Ruined a Country 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z With tendrils connecting it to the worlds of business, energy, agriculture, politics and environmentalism, fracking offers everything a would-be Steinbeck, Zola or Frank Norris could want. ‘Heat & Light’ is the best fracking novel ever 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z New Zealand, where agriculture is one of the largest contributors to climate change, is proposing a tax on cow burps. New Zealand wants to tax cow burps (yes, you read that correctly) 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z Headquarters of an NGO working to promote women’s interests and traditional agriculture also houses a small cafe selling classic Ladakhi fare. Details: Ladakh, India The Indian textile and apparel industry employs 45 million people directly and 60 million indirectly, making it the country’s second largest employment-generator after agriculture. Unfamiliar Territory for Indian Bridal Industry 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z “Pizza helps people see what agriculture really means.” Where the Produce Includes Pepperoni: The Pizza Farm 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z In the years I’ve been writing about agriculture, I’ve encountered skepticism, primarily among the researchers, scientists and farmers working in the conventional food sector, about the concept of “naturalness.” Perspective | Perennial grains could be a key weapon against climate change. But not quite yet. 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z Not the agricultural world, but this way of doing small family agriculture was ending. "Alcarràs" filmmaker on farming families losing "this way of life" in Catalonia 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z It's a great way to eat seasonally and support local agriculture. Most of America’s Fruit Is Now Imported. Is That a Bad Thing? 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z In addition to the allocations from the Federal Government, I approached the World Bank for funds to construct dams, execute several irrigation projects for agriculture, and bury pipes underground for water supply to households. The Swimming Pool by Jekwu Anyaegbuna 2013-03-16T09:01:08Z A new generation wants food from companies that are actively healing the planet through carbon-reducing agriculture, more rigorous animal welfare policies and equitable treatment of the people who grow and process food. How Will We Eat in 2023? Here Are 10 Predictions. 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z Topics: OnEarth.org, factory farming, antibiotics, big pharm, Food and Drug Administration, , big agriculture, , , , , This article originally appeared on OnEarth.org. FDA’s pitiful plea to Big Pharma: Cut back on antibiotics in meat, please 2013-12-15T20:00:00Z FOE's Hamerschlag says this is a result of decades of influence from big agriculture companies on the USDA's school nutrition standards. Vegan Fridays for all? More schools offer plant-based meals 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z One potential impact of a basic income guarantee would be reducing economic uncertainty for the most vulnerable agriculture and fisheries workers. Basic income could help create a more just and sustainable food system 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z Over and over, the word “skill” appears in the display texts to describe the innovation slaves made to streamline agriculture and industry. Visiting the African-American Museum: Waiting, Reading, Thinking, Connecting, Feeling 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z Alex Heilman is director of Mad Markets at Mad Agriculture, a nonprofit that boosts regenerative agriculture from multiple angles, including helping would-be Kernza farmers access financing through its sister organization Mad Capital. What can you make with half a million pounds of Kernza? Try beer 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z On a Saturday morning, I head out to Bishop Park to meet André at the Athens Farmers Market, where a lot of this organic agriculture is on display. Beyond tailgate ribs and ’tater salad: The burgeoning food scene in Athens, Ga. 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Her father, Jorge Zorreguieta, was an agriculture minister in the military junta that ruled Argentina with an iron fist in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Willem-Alexander, from Prince Pils to Dutch king 2013-04-28T06:21:09Z “It’s harder to grow than most people think,” said Shawn Lucas, an assistant professor of organic agriculture and industrial hemp specialist at Kentucky State University. For young farmers, hemp is a "gateway crop" 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z The Ba'ath party was in the ascendant, and businesses, land, banks and agriculture were being nationalised. Harley Loco by Rayya Elias – review 2013-06-14T09:00:11Z The socialist reform of agriculture under Mao paved the way for the market reform of agriculture after Mao, he argues, because "Chinese peasants had become relatively more educated, literate, capable at self-organisation and technically able". The Struggle for Tibet by Wang Lixiong and Tsering Shakya | The End of the Revolution: China and the Limits of Modernity by Wang Hui 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z It belongs to the shepherd and author James Rebanks, whose new book is all about the challenges of sustainable agriculture. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z “Now they’re fields with their equipment storage yards and things largely for agriculture,” she said. The Abandoned Houses of Instagram 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z A second potential impact of a basic income guarantee could be supporting new entrants in agriculture and fisheries. Basic income could help create a more just and sustainable food system 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z Appalachia’s economy, like Pulaski’s, has been shaped by the boom and bust of mining, logging, agriculture and heavy industry. Can rural America be saved? A new national ‘challenge’ tries to see. 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z Veganism is no longer niche or difficult and, as industrial agriculture bends to adapt to consumer demand and its own crisis of sustainability, it is only going to get more accessible – and more popular. The unstoppable rise of veganism: how a fringe movement went mainstream 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z California has as diversified an economy as is possible: manufacturing, agriculture, travel and tourism, creative industries, shipping. How California Turned Into a ‘State of Resistance’ 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z Though the Lakota did have a historical practice of dispersing plant seeds along riverbanks to ensure a continuing food supply, agriculture was not central to their lifestyle. Envisioning indigenous food sovereignty as "a whole ecosystem" 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z Geology, geography, meteorology, agriculture, industrialization, politics, technology and taste are all included, and Mexico and Canada are mentioned when relevant. New Book on the History of American Food 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z Those discoveries, which began with chickens, created “what we choose to call industrialized agriculture”, a poultry historian living in Georgia proudly wrote in 1971. Read this and you may never eat chicken again 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z It was only through the technological advances of modern agriculture that meat became attainable and available at supermarket prices. Why do people hate vegans? 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z As for agriculture secretary: Top Chef’s Tom Colicchio sure knows a few things about food. Trump's reality TV cabinet: our picks, from Bear Grylls to Kris Jenner 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z Because what’s interesting about these conservation practices is that they raise the possibility of constructive change in one of the most contentious issues in agriculture: government subsidies. One way to get Big Agriculture to clean up its act 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z “According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, we generated $877 billion. It’s more than agriculture and mining combined.” Actors and Writers and Now, Congressional Lobbyists 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z The proposed rule also preserves exemptions already granted for agriculture. News briefs from around Tennessee at 1:58 a.m. EDT 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Patron of agriculture, sustainer of harvests, he’s a dreamboat, as buff as Adonis, as self-possessed as a Buddha. Can Art Ever Be Innocent? 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z The historical ban on hemp, which is derived from the cannabis plant, has long imposed barriers on the agriculture industry. Joint effort: cannabis lobby heads to Washington to woo US lawmakers 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Only here would a lunch companion interrupt to say in hushed excitement, “Don’t look now, but that’s the deputy undersecretary of agriculture!” ‘The Hopefuls’ captures everything we love to hate about Washington 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z While the first era of globalisation was breaking up, Moscow was pushing ahead with the collectivisation of agriculture and rapid industrialisation. What the 21st century can learn from the 1929 crash | Larry Elliott 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z Given the short lifespan of some of the agriculture animals and intensive milking schedules, withdrawal periods often need to be very short. Vaccines using mRNA can protect farm animals against diseases traditional ones may not 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z So we learn that indigenous Southern California cultures regularly cleared undergrowth and grew food in small plots, but that 18th-century Spanish missions transformed agriculture. Museum Review: The Natural History Museum in Los Angeles, Redesigned 2013-08-02T19:53:12Z So, and also the landscape here is not suited for agriculture. Christmas in July: Christopher Haatuft teaches Gordon Ramsay about reindeer and Neo-Fjordic cuisine 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z But it’s no surprise that the idea found such fertile ground in the Berkshires, said Barbara Zheutlin, director of Berkshire Grown, an organization dedicated to the region’s agriculture. Journeys: In the Berkshires, Eating Locally Is a Tradition 2010-08-18T21:19:00Z Many of these indigenous tribes were skilled in agriculture, including the cultivation of multiple varieties of corn, a crop that was not only respected but also revered. When it comes to making bourbon, why is corn so important? 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z He documented the democratizing effect of the close-order military drill, the moldboard plow's transformation of agriculture, the impact of potato farming. William H McNeill, prize-winning world historian, dead at 98 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z She transformed streets and freeway offramps with palm trees, turf and animals, predicting the current craze for parklets and urban agriculture. The Bay Citizen: California?s 1970s Conceptual Art Comes Home to Berkeley Museum of Art 2012-03-02T00:41:07Z “This will only work if these poles become magnets of attraction — with agriculture, tourism, industry and especially jobs,” Mr. Voltaire said. Architecture: Plan Calls for Rebuilding Haiti Away From Port-au-Prince 2010-03-30T22:02:00Z This summer, as the country began to reckon with its racist roots of colonialism, land theft and slavery, food and agriculture were, thankfully, part of the conversation. Looking ahead: The top food and agriculture stories for 2021 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z The railways created the suburb, radicalised warfare and transformed agriculture; the steam engine was the foundation of the factory. It's fine to boost the arts, but we should first redefine them 2013-04-27T23:06:23Z “It is history. It is culture, and agriculture.” Rye, a Grain With Ancient Roots, Is Rising Again 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z “You can’t talk about agriculture without talking about the environment,” he writes. A Sweeping History of What We Eat 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z Others worry that it is displacing community supported agriculture and other smaller-scale subscription services in the marketplace. Study finds farm-level food waste is much worse than we thought 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z "I'm thinking that it might be fun to find a whole other era, something like the beginnings of agriculture," she said. Jean Auel concludes prehistoric saga with 6th book 2011-03-29T13:12:25Z AB 2377 will dedicate a small portion of the state’s climate-smart agriculture funds to a technical assistance grant program, prioritizing smaller farms and socially disadvantaged farmers. How will California’s climate ambitions reshape food and agriculture? 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z Minimum wage laws, for instance, were passed on the condition, set forth by members of Congress from the South, that they exclude occupations like agriculture or housekeeping, jobs held predominantly by blacks at the time. Deep Thinking on Affirmative Action 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z To understand why agriculture is critical to climate progress, it helps to understand a little bit about carbon. How will California’s climate ambitions reshape food and agriculture? 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z "It was a substantive, careful, constantly thoughtful speech on the industrialization of agriculture," he says. Author Wendell Berry to lecture in Seattle 2011-05-23T20:53:04Z In general, the solutions in agriculture are more to be found in going back to some traditional approaches that worked but were discarded because of the pressure for short-term profit maximization. ‘We really need to wake up quickly’: Al Gore warns of a looming food crisis caused by climate change 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z Recent floods have also had shown how extreme weather events can have widespread impacts on agriculture and food prices. Climate change threatens to cause "synchronized harvest failures" across the globe 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z Besh also predicted that rising gas prices will spur consumers to think about local food, and to pressure Congress to change the way it supports the agriculture industry. Chefs Love, Besh: authentic food has staying power 2011-02-25T22:37:11Z If we'd paid more attention to Berry's wisdom regarding sustainable agriculture, "we could have saved ourselves a lot of pain," says Pollan of his prescient predecessor. Michael Pollan "In Defense of Food: The Omnivore's Solution" 2011-01-12T03:01:04Z For instance, Google's new data center development in Beauharnois near Montréal will reportedly not include heat recycling and is also built on land originally zoned for agriculture, which is highly controversial. Can the heat from running computers help grow our food? It’s complicated 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z The study of agriculture, for example, is not different from the study of ecology. Going Home with Wendell Berry 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z The zigzagging route I took downhill to the old city was a fascinatingly horrific mix of agriculture, construction sites and sleepy shops, invisible to those who stayed in the picturesque and manicured old city. Frugal Traveler: In Lebanon, in Search of Music, Souks and Home 2011-07-26T18:56:44Z For more than a century, since agriculture and whaling gave way to tourism, Cape Cod in Massachusetts has attracted vacationers to its many miles of pristine beaches. 36 Hours on Outer Cape Cod 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Livestock production accounts for up to 78% of all greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture. How is your body (and the environment) affected by the consumption of both red and processed meats 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z Populations have become isolated from one another as forest land has been lost to agriculture and other human pressure. This distinctive tree is vastly underappreciated — and it’s dying out 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z Globally speaking, the food and agriculture sector is responsible for a large share of these greenhouse gas emissions: between 19 and 29 percent. How will California’s climate ambitions reshape food and agriculture? 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z Giorgi remained guarded, offering monosyllabic answers and questioning whether I was an agriculture reporter when I inquired about the family farm. Could this man control college basketball? 2013-03-17T21:00:00Z Wyclef Jean's manifesto will focus on what he calls his 'four policy pillars' – education, job creation, agriculture and security. Wyclef Jean confirms he will run for Haiti president 2010-08-05T22:03:00Z In large-scale, commodity agriculture, inputs like fertilizers and pesticides overpower the naturally-occurring expressions of the soil and surrounding ecosystem, which compromises the flavor and terroir, in turn. How masa harina changed the course of human history — and gave us better tacos 2023-07-16T04:00:00Z From its first appearance in this country, it has been associated with modern capitalist industry and large-scale agriculture. Why Etan Patz still haunts us 2012-05-25T18:00:00Z Habitat loss, more intensive agriculture and greater use of pesticides that kill the insects birds eat. Perspective | Bird populations have crashed. Here’s what you can do to help. 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Among other things, it affirmed the importance of traditional Nordic recipes and cooking techniques, seasonal local foods and sustainable agriculture. In Copenhagen, New Nordic Meets Old Italian 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z For their part, food and agriculture companies have been quite successful at protecting their activities from view. How Hormel exploited confusion over the natural label 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z And remember, our farmers are no longer farmers from agriculture colleges in agronomy, they're engineers, software/hardware engineers. Love local and sustainable food? In the future data will drive more decisions than desire 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z The sculptural drawings on metal represent “the cultural histories of their physical makeup — gold, conquest, violence, agriculture — and the fluctuation of power that surrounds natural resources,” says the gallery’s note. Review | In the galleries: Delicate works show concern about the footprints we leave on our planet 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z In addition to Politico.com and the magazine, Glasser will oversee Politico Pro, the subscription-only “vertical” Web sites that cover specific policy areas, such as agriculture and health care. Susan Glasser picked for No. 2 job in Politico’s newsroom It's more about the next generation of British farmers and whether agriculture is actually a viable career for a young person today. TV review: First Time Farmers 2013-01-11T23:00:12Z "With neither agriculture nor raw materials, the country coalesced around its culture," Abdi explains. Mauritania's hidden manuscripts 2010-07-27T13:00:00Z The lack of baseline data on the scale and scope of Indigenous involvement in the agriculture sector continues to be an obstacle to effective engagement of Indigenous communities within the sector. Indigenous food sovereignty requires better and more accurate data collection 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z Our research has consistently found child care is an issue that affects all of agriculture regardless of farm size, production system or location. Farm families are struggling to grow their businesses in child care deserts. Can the farm bill help? 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z The matching process yields information about Māori engagement in agriculture, such as the number of agricultural operations, livestock and horticulture crops Māori farm operations have. Indigenous food sovereignty requires better and more accurate data collection 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z Now there’s Barnraiser, a platform “dedicated to sustainable food and agriculture.” Barnraiser debuts a Kickstarter-like platform for sustainable food 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z I should mention that the exhibit also shows how turf has been used on sports fields and golf courses, and features other dicots fundamental to agriculture, which is to say, feeding all of us. National Arboretum’s “Grass Roots”: A brighter future for the lawn Shank licensed his farm, The Family Cow, with the state department of agriculture and began selling raw milk in 2008. Could the raw milk boom be a lifeline for struggling farmers? 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z The case of agriculture is the most clear. Was ancient man a vegetarian? 2012-08-27T23:23:00Z “These corporations are just going to follow the dollar, and follow consumer demand, which hopefully will force them to switch to sustainable, plant-based agriculture.” The unstoppable rise of veganism: how a fringe movement went mainstream 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z The second was the development of agriculture, which led to the birth of cities. Three Books Consider What Happens When the Robots Take Over 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z Jackson’s paintings synthesize connections shared by local residents of color around experiences of transportation, housing, agriculture and labor. Tomashi Jackson Harvests Histories From the Land of Plenty 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z FRI-SAT Carnival, farm animals and agriculture displays, food and commercial vendors, entertainment, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Community calendar 2012-08-01T23:37:08Z The pandemic exposed the disproportionate numbers of immigrant workers in the agriculture, poultry and seafood industries in rural America. Underpaid and overlooked, migrant labor provides backbone of Maryland Eastern Shore’s local economy 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z Modern agriculture intensified over just a few decades in the mid-20th century — a blink of an eye in human history. Computer science can help farmers explore alternative crops and sustainable farming methods 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z Chains of blackened banana peels represent the risks of single-crop agriculture, while floral arrangements of garlic peels celebrate the healthy diet of the artist’s Greek childhood. Review | In the galleries: Printmakers’ works are anything but two-dimensional 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z Other vocal supporters of conventional agriculture told me of a litany of insults: “Nazi,” “baby killer,” “Monsanto shill” and lots of stuff that we can’t put in a family newspaper. Perspective | Want to fix agriculture? Stop with the name-calling — and death threats. 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z Furthermore, since the land there was not fit for agriculture, traditional Marshallese ingredients were unavailable, and nearly all food was imported, unhealthy and expensive, leaving many malnourished. Cholera and coronavirus: why we must not repeat the same mistakes 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z “It is art meeting agriculture meeting science meeting social science meeting economy.” Playing Chicken With the Art World 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z It’s a sensible idea with some appropriate applications, CalCAN’s Brillinger says, but it only makes sense if you have a lot of manure in one place — and that doesn’t encourage smaller-scale, diversified agriculture. How will California’s climate ambitions reshape food and agriculture? 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z According to The Post, approximately $10.4 billion in funds designated for agriculture will be awarded to disadvantaged farmers. Biden administration blasts Trump for only granting 0.1% of COVID-19 relief funds to Black farmers 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z The bride, 30, is a strategy associate at Agriculture Capital, an investment group in San Francisco focused on sustainable agriculture. Meaghan McGrath, Thomas Selby 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z Dry skin, cuts, scrapes, rashes, chronic pain and broken bones are common among immigrants who work in agriculture, poultry and seafood processing. Underpaid and overlooked, migrant labor provides backbone of Maryland Eastern Shore’s local economy 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z Most antibiotic use in agriculture violates those rules. Read this and you may never eat chicken again 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z Over time, the development of modern agriculture and the transition to industrialised societies changed our regular eating patterns, shifting our dinner time to later in the day to accommodate work schedules. Does it matter what time of day I eat? And can intermittent fasting improve my health? 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z We have been using it since we invented agriculture thousands of years ago, and yet ceramics are prone to chip, crack and shatter. Mark Miodownik: an obsession with materials 2013-05-24T15:53:00Z This past February, the International Food Information Council released the results of a study on consumer awareness about regenerative agriculture. Making sense of regenerative labels 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z A look at industrial agriculture and the modern food chain. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z While violence against women in agriculture may seem like an issue mainly experienced in developing countries, the truth is that it also happens all too often to women and girls on farms in the U.S. Sexual violence is a pervasive threat for female farm workers 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z Mr. Berliner prefers not to pigeonhole his form of agriculture as organic, biodynamic or anything else. Zen and the Art of Australian Winemaking 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z “His new series celebrates the natural majesty and global importance of the Great Lakes while exploring how they are threatened by factors such as climate change, globalization, invasive species, mass agriculture and urban sprawl.” Alexis Rockman Portrays the Great Lakes in Glory and Decline 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z As Jimmy says, agriculture isn't just about living the good life, it's a business. Tonight's TV highlights: A Farmer's Life For Me 2011-02-01T00:05:01Z The technical term for hydroponic farming is controlled environmental agriculture, but people in the business refer to it as indoor farming. No Soil. No Growing Seasons. Just Add Water and Technology. 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z We actually have about 80 years of history of people farming, but really what that meant was tearing down wild Kelp forest up north for agriculture in the Midwest. If you're not interested in adventure Ducks Eatery is not for you and neither is chef Will Horowitz 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z Interactive exhibits and habitats explore plant life, green energy sources, agriculture and ecosystem diversity. In Transit Blog: In Dallas, a Garden Designed for Children 2013-09-02T19:00:43Z From an early age, Montoya seemed destined to work in something other than agriculture. With swagger and style, Jose Montoya's drawings at the Fowler document Mexican American life 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z He hopes the burgeoning hemp industry makes agriculture more equitable than it has historically been for people of diverse race and class backgrounds. For young farmers, hemp is a "gateway crop" 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z The effect of modern agriculture is felt throughout the food chain. From Good Wine, a Direct Path to the Wonders of Nature 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z Despite regenerative agriculture's popularity and its focus on sustainable food production, it fails to tackle systemic social and political issues. ‘Regenerative agriculture’ is all the rage — but it’s not going to fix our food system 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z "Conventional agriculture produces higher yields . . . through inputs replacing ecosystem services and then a lot of negative externalities," she said. Can "True Cost Accounting" tell us more than a price tag? 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z In short, an expansion of US oat agriculture could have large environmental benefits. Curious about plant-based milk? Tom Philpott answers your questions 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z Gates addresses agriculture in his new book "How to Avoid a Climate Disaster" and details the measures needed to eliminate greenhouse-gas emissions. Bill Gates says rich countries should be eating 100% synthetic beef 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z Some major environmental groups think so. Friends of the Earth has dismissed lab-grown meat as a diversion from the effort to reform our industrial food system – a half-baked technofix for much bigger agriculture problems. Fake burgers will save us all! 2013-12-08T22:00:00Z It explains both the importance of agriculture in late-18th century Lexington and its role in the outbreak of the Revolution. Frugal Traveler: History Beyond Boston 2010-12-22T04:00:50Z Just about everyone who works in agriculture says they believe that our current system, based disproportionately on corn and soy, would work better if we grew a more diverse suite of crops. Perspective | Why your humble bowl of oatmeal could help feed a growing planet 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z THU-SUN Carnival rides, agriculture displays, entertainment, vendors, 10 a.m.-9:30 p.m. Seattle Art Fair, Umjoa Fest, and Naval Aviation Fly Day 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z She also points to state-level programs like California Farm Link and Hudson Valley Farmland Finder, which are “actively working with agriculture service providers and land trusts, and are the brokers to help make deals happen.” For a new generation of farmers, accessing land is the first step toward tackling consolidation 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z It was really about trees and places, agriculture and culture, and the tension between nature and industry. The Best Wine Books Are Not Always About Wine 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Older farmers have years of experience cultivating crops while young people adapt easily as the agriculture industry evolves. For young farmers, hemp is a "gateway crop" 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z According to historians, in midwinter the ancient Romans would celebrate the end of planting season by honoring Saturn, the god of agriculture, liberation and time, with a weeklong festival of Saturnalia. Analysis | Why do we kiss on New Year’s? 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z The Western Washington Fair continues this week with carnival rides, animal and agriculture displays, vendors, entertainment. 16 top entertainment picks for the week of Sept. 9-15, 2012 2012-09-05T22:44:04Z Unlike much of Ohio’s current farmland, where corn and soybeans consume large, flat parcels of earth, Appalachian Ohio is a rooted in small-scale, diversified agriculture on patches of land interspersed between forest. With a focus on food sovereignty, rural Appalachian Ohio is rebounding 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z But on Sunday, the agriculture minister defended his stance, saying the same rules apply to Depp as to everyone else. Barnaby Joyce defends threat to put down Johnny Depp’s dogs 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z He’s the one who inspired Michael Pollan to get interested in food and agriculture. WATCH: “Parks and Rec” star Nick Offerman on his documentary about iconic writer Wendell Berry 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z At a stop in Albany on Thursday, Nelson said the Northeast is fertile ground for new farmers and sustainable agriculture. Upstate NY to host annual Farm Aid benefit concert 2013-06-14T04:09:08Z It's looking at animal agriculture from a bunch of different perspectives. Moby is happily boring now: "I look at the desperation that I had ... I don't glorify the past" 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z He noted, too, that while humans have always been carnivorous, carbohydrates only became a major component of their diet 10,000 years ago, with the advent of mass agriculture. The sugar conspiracy | Ian Leslie 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z But his life in agriculture did not begin smoothly. Why Brazil’s Greatest Writer Stopped Writing 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z But Jeff Hawkins, 65, said he became a farmer only when he resigned as pastor of a Lutheran Evangelical parish to devote himself to agriculture. Where the Produce Includes Pepperoni: The Pizza Farm 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z Our daughter and her husband own 150 acres of land, much of it damaged by misuse, on which they're practicing regenerative agriculture. The fight to save our off-the-grid forest home 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z Another study has suggested that a rapid phaseout of animal agriculture would enable us to stabilize greenhouse gases for the next 30 years and offset more than two-thirds of all carbon dioxide emissions this century. Peter Singer states "we are gambling with the future of our planet for the sake of hamburgers" 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z In Skipton, the Hansel programme is being screened at the Mart theatre, proudly described as "breaking new ground between art and agriculture – by day a cattle auction, by night a theatre!" Hansel 2012: on the road with Britain's mobile movie marathon 2012-06-09T23:05:28Z That culture includes its Creole language, traditions in food and dance, and critical expertise in agriculture. In Charleston, Coming to Terms With the Past 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z "We need urgent help in the agriculture department", Comrade Vinod says. Arundhati Roy | Gandhi, but with guns | Part Five 2010-03-27T09:00:00Z Regenerative agriculture contributes to healthier soils that can hold more water, more carbon, and access more nutrients for plants and food, while preventing aridification. The heat wave crushing the West is a preview of farmworkers’ hot future 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z On the board of several Ohio entities working to advance sustainable agriculture, Redfern has seen many a scenario for production in his state. With a focus on food sovereignty, rural Appalachian Ohio is rebounding 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z Ms. Carman, 41, said she persists because the environmental damage caused by the feedlot system is so grave, and the potential benefits of regenerative agriculture are so enticing. Beef Is a Problem. This Seattle Steakhouse Wants to Be Part of the Solution. 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z Conventional agriculture limits farmers to a few choices of plant species, farming methods and inputs. Computer science can help farmers explore alternative crops and sustainable farming methods 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z Who would have thought that the author of “Moneyball” and “The Big Short” would turn his attention to the departments of energy, commerce and agriculture? He’s Played Churchill and Lear. But for John Lithgow, Audiobooks Test His Mettle. 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z “Mountaineers needed to think differently about how they did things” about the rapidly changing nature of commercial agriculture, he writes. What the People of Appalachia Want 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z An example of a low bar might be international industrial agriculture corporation Cargill's "support" for regenerative agriculture that still allows farmers to use chemical inputs. Making sense of regenerative labels 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z Archaeologists believe the remains of the town are in serious danger from unauthorised metal detecting and intensive agriculture. Roman town of Venta Icenorum site bought for public ownership 2011-07-08T19:36:55Z Built in the 1920s, the silo was the country’s tallest building and was for decades a center for agriculture. Thomas Heatherwick Designs South Africa’s Newest Art Museum 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z But that staged burger tasting — especially the resulting photo — created a false impression about cellular agriculture, says Ben Wurgaft, a writer and historian who researched the industry for five years. Can we save the prized bluefin tuna, and its habitat, by growing it in a lab? 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z He was horrified to learn that greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture increased by 12 percent from 1990 to 2019, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. The Rise of the Climatarian 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z For example, animal agriculture is the leading cause of Co2 emissions, deforestation and pollution of our waterways. The rise of vegan teenagers: 'More people are into it because of Instagram' 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z Bringing urban agriculture to the airport, JetBlue unveiled its T5 Farm last week at Terminal 5 at Kennedy Airport in New York. Air Travel News: A Garden at Kennedy; a Forecast for Lower Fares 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z Take that proxy — arguing about GMOs instead of industrialized agriculture — to the developing world, and the stakes are much higher. The last thing Africa needs to be debating is GMOs 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z The 1960s brought the Green Revolution, a tectonic shift in Indian agriculture. The legendary story of Thangam Philip: food scientist, nutritionist, chef and mentor 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z “The show has shed some light on the fact that real working cowboys are still here, daily, doing the tasks needed to keep agriculture alive and well.” Capturing the Joyful Spirit of a Montana General Store 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z Not that we needed a crisis to show us that regional agriculture needs processing infrastructure; studies like Vermont's Farm to Plate local-foodshed initiative made that clear a decade ago. After the pandemic flour craze, micro-millers take stock 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z For her, Amazonian beehives are not just a hub of pollination, they are also the most economically viable alternative to the environmentally destructive traditions of slash-and-burn agriculture and cattle ranching. Bees in Amazon 'are greatest ally to halt rainforest destruction' 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z “We’re not an agriculture school . . . we focus on the development of people.” UW program seeks to grow better farmers and consumers 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z Besides art, language, music and architecture, the Moors left their mark on Andalusian agriculture and cuisine. The Enduring Echoes of Moorish Spain 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z Montana is known for its agriculture, scenery, great outdoors and areas like Glacier National Park. Montana Fish, Wildlife agency converts social distancing into 'fishtancing' 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z We are working to turn our framework into software that people can use to model agriculture as state spaces. Computer science can help farmers explore alternative crops and sustainable farming methods 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z He is already planning a second edition of the book, this time including essays by Guingamp farmers about the need for a sustainable, humane, even “ecotopian” type of agriculture. After the Brexit Vote, Mark Neville Looks at Life in “Little Britain” 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z Dressed in miliary-style fatigues, Samba and his comrades drive out to rural villages to lecture peasants and landowners on the virtues of collective agriculture. ‘Dancing the Twist in Bamako’ Review: Youth in Revolt 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z Conventional agriculture is the source of almost everything we eat, and its pluses and minuses are the mirror image of organic’s. Why everyone who is sure about a food philosophy is wrong 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z That vision is the opposite of the big, conventional, commodity-crop agriculture that is the status quo and, in the main, the source of the problems. We need to feed a growing planet. Vegetables aren’t the answer. 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z The T-shirts of the servers bear messages attesting to a commitment to local agriculture. Where to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner in Indianapolis 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z GE seeds aren't available for home gardeners, but are common in conventional agriculture, making up the majority of the U.S. corn and soybean crop. Why heirloom seeds matter 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z The agency revived German agriculture after the dire depression, and my grandfather benefited from his position. My grandfather was a Nazi. Our family's story of complicity shows where the road to extremism leads 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z You will support the environment, agriculture and your local economy. Wedding Etiquette 2011-12-23T22:08:30Z These new technologies are environmentally friendly and potentially earth-shattering politically, since they could transfer agriculture to cities. Should I grow my own weed at home? Here's what you need to know 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z The exhibition commemorates exemplary men and women in the fields of technology, agriculture, academics, medicine, science, arts and philanthropy. ‘Beyond Bollywood’ exhibit at MOHAI looks at the contributions of Indian Americans 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z "It's hard because all of agriculture is hard, and you need to be viable," Martin says. Will regenerative agriculture change how we grocery shop? 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z It would be the ultimate de-materialization of agriculture, a sort of logical conclusion to the evolution of farming in which animals have moved from open pasture to industrial feedlots. Fake burgers will save us all! 2013-12-08T22:00:00Z The city has adopted innovative zoning and permitting ordinances to support small-scale urban agriculture. Food forests are bringing shade and sustenance to US cities, one parcel of land at a time 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z Animal-based systems will not be viable on Mars, but protein could be abundantly produced through cellular agriculture and precision fermentation. Could we feed a city on Mars? 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z A planned EU/U.S. trade deal needs to sweep away "non-scientific barriers" that prevent U.S. farmers from selling many genetically modified crops and some chemically treated meats in Europe, the U.S. agriculture secretary said on Tuesday. U.S. says science should settle farm debates in trade deal with EU 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z “You multiply that for the entire country and all agriculture sales, and it’s a big deal,” he said. A Rush of Americans, Seeking Gold in Cuban Soil 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z Snow Farm operates as a community-supported agriculture farm, an open-invitation homestead and an outpost of the World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms network. For Taste of Farm Life, There’s No Place Like a Homestead 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z From Burlington, we headed south with a mission to find farms that produced cheese and maple, two products that have put Vermont agriculture on the map. Vermont’s agritourism industry is bustling with baking, cheese-making classes and more 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z The Pew Research Center estimates there are 7.5 million undocumented workers in the United States concentrated in construction, agriculture, and the hospitality industry. Who's coming to the aid of undocumented workers amid restaurant closures and lay-offs 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z She loathes the “twee” approach to sustainable agriculture and local food taken by many well-known chefs and farmers. Food Scholar, Folk Singer, Blunt Speaker: The Many Lives of Leni Sorensen 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z Indigenous peoples have a long history with agriculture — a history that wasn't always recognized. Indigenous food sovereignty requires better and more accurate data collection 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z A graduate of nearby Hocking College and Ohio University, he’s devoted his career to agriculture and plant care, having spent the last 15 years at Rural Action and 20 years prior in the horticulture industry. With a focus on food sovereignty, rural Appalachian Ohio is rebounding 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z It could steer humanity further away from traditional animal agriculture towards radically different food systems. Synthetic dairy milk made without cows may be coming to a supermarket near you 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z Bishop has used his seat on the House Agriculture Committee to forge deep ties with conservative farmers who wield political clout in a district where agriculture is a major economic engine. A Black Republican tries to bring in Black voters to the GOP 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z A spokeswoman for Scott said the congressman no longer chairs the same House agriculture subcommittee and referred questions to the committee’s professional staff. Was a USDA scientist muzzled because of his bee research? 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z They entered agriculture with a long genetic history, including things like whole genome duplication events and genetic bottlenecks, which collectively change which genes are gained or lost over time in a population. Cranberries can bounce, float and pollinate themselves: The saucy science of a Thanksgiving classic 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z Animal agriculture is the worst industry in human history in terms of the horrible ways it destroys everything it touches. Moby is happily boring now: "I look at the desperation that I had ... I don't glorify the past" 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z While this unprecedented shift is under way, 40% of the planet's surface is being used for agriculture – a figure that will surely rise. Ten Billion by Stephen Emmott – review 2013-07-05T07:01:01Z Glickman, 65, is a former congressman and served as U.S. agriculture secretary under President Bill Clinton. MPAA boss Glickman says goodbye to Hollywood 2010-03-16T12:16:00Z One is the mounting threats indigenous communities face as logging, agriculture and mining encroach ever more aggressively into pristine corners of the world’s largest tropical rain forest. A Writer’s Trip Into the Amazon Reveals Brazil and Himself 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z The agriculture minister David Heath told MPs: "This 'grace period' is to allow operators of travelling circuses a reasonable period of time to adapt their businesses and organise suitable care arrangements for their wild animals." Circuses to be banned from using wild animals 2013-04-16T11:30:03Z It's not surprising turnips couldn't quite stand up to the huge changes in agriculture and food choice over the last three centuries. Turnips: How Britain fell out of love with the much-maligned vegetable 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z The desert farms are magnificent 20th century monuments to unsustainable agriculture. Don’t censor the school-lunch blog 2012-06-15T16:15:00Z Food and agriculture are complicated, and I end up writing a lot of click-proof pieces chock full of eye-glazing detail concluding that there’s no easy answer. Perspective | The ‘uncured’ bacon illusion: It’s actually cured, and it’s not better for you. 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z In a future where shifting climate patterns and other uncertainties make agriculture less predictable, that diversity will be a boon for breeders. Escalating U.S.-Mexico debate over corn forces questions about GMOs, food sovereignty 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z The complex is still a working farm, but in the 1970s Webb descendants transformed it into a nonprofit educational organization focusing on sustainable agriculture. 36 Hours in Burlington, Vermont 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z Congress' response will show whether it supports business as usual in agriculture or a more diverse and sustainable U.S. farm system. These four challenges will shape the next farm bill — and how the US eats 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z But 90% of critical, historic wetlands in that region have been lost, most converted to agriculture. Can more farmers be convinced to conserve and restore wetlands? 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z Fast facts: Arlington’s Crystal City, Pentagon City and Potomac Yard were originally part of Abingdon Plantation, and agriculture predominated until the railway arrived on the scene. Amazon chose two locations for its new headquarters. Now, we go explore them. 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z The emerging and predicted impacts on agriculture and food supplies are stark, according to the panel. Climate change threatens food but microscopic algae offer answers 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z If current dreams of urban agriculture come true, the distinction between town and country will blur. 20 predictions for the next 25 years 2011-01-02T00:05:22Z Can you talk about how warming winters will impact agriculture in the valley? The heat wave crushing the West is a preview of farmworkers’ hot future 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z They are the more frequent and unremitting worries of rural agriculture. Farm to Gallery: Peter Nadin?s Comeback 2011-07-03T05:30:29Z Many environmental justice communities were settled during the migration that took place when the Dust Bowl arose from Midwestern agriculture practices that pushed the land to its limit. Healthy soil is ground zero for environmental justice in farm communities 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z Go on that, and you find that, yes, organic agriculture — which for purposes of this discussion means farming certified as adhering to rigorous standards defined by the U.S. Is organic agriculture really better for the environment? 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z Our framework enables discovery of new systems of agriculture and then optimization within those new systems. Computer science can help farmers explore alternative crops and sustainable farming methods 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z “Farmers on the Isle of Youth have been forced to practice organic agriculture,” Mr. Guggenheim said. A Cuban Island That Has Played Both Paradise and Prison 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Just as we’ve been negotiating our way between two parallel but very different forms of agriculture — one large-scale and chemically based, the other localized and biologically based — we’ve been caught between two modes of thought. Perspective | Want to save the planet? Think small. 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z In response to PolCouns' encouraging focused Indian assistance on agriculture and education, Sinha noted India's announcement at the London Conference of 300 scholarships per year for the next 5 years for Afghans studying agriculture. US embassy cables: Indian fears over reconciliation efforts in Afghanistan 2010-12-16T21:30:35Z Rebanks, a third-generation sheep farmer in England’s Lake District, tackles the thorny question at the heart of sustainable agriculture: How do you make money from the land without wrecking it? 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z One of the most popular methods currently being explored is desalination, but Alonga says that would only make a cost-effective impact on residential water use and not solve for challenges in the agriculture sector. An independent California isn’t that wacky of an Idea 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z As part of a drive to tackle Japan’s demographic time-bomb, the government in 2009 started a program to financially help local municipalities recruit urbanites to work in agriculture and other sectors for eventual settlement. 'Vanishing village' looks to Japan's LDP for survival 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z Many experts argue that further expanding modern industrialized agriculture — which relies heavily on synthetic fertilizer, chemical pesticides and high-yield seeds — isn't the right way to feed a growing world population. Computer science can help farmers explore alternative crops and sustainable farming methods 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z Great wine is tied to finite pieces of land and to the rhythms of agriculture. How Income Inequality Has Erased Your Chance to Drink the Great Wines 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z New structures are only allowed to occupy up to a fourth of the land, and about half is devoted to agriculture, to bolster a sustainable ecosystem. The Most Planned Unplanned Place Around 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z Jackson wondered whether it was possible to redesign agriculture to better mimic Mother Nature. Perennial wheat is an ecologist’s dream. Soon it may be what’s for dinner. 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z Our economic advantage is in agriculture and tourism, and these are by nature decentralized.” Architecture: Plan Calls for Rebuilding Haiti Away From Port-au-Prince 2010-03-30T22:02:00Z The milling industry is concentrated like the rest of agriculture, and dominated by four companies that run mega-mills around the country. After the pandemic flour craze, micro-millers take stock 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z Their ancestors had all worked in agriculture, and then all of a sudden they were out of agricultural jobs because slaves were doing all of the labor. Roots of white rage: America’s clash of class and race, from the Civil War to the rise of Trump 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Bottom line: There’s no one way to feed the world. Yet the public conversation about agriculture seems to break down along philosophical lines, and not always civilly. Why everyone who is sure about a food philosophy is wrong 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Costello and Ms. Dawson say that using food to resist corporate agriculture continues a tradition of rebellion in West Virginia. Serving Up West Virginia History, Not All of It Sweet 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Last year, she started selling the caviar to Crafted, a farm-to-table restaurant in downtown Yakima that is frequented by the local agriculture barons. For This Tribe, Saving a River Means Saving the Sturgeon 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, studies show diversified small-scale agriculture to be one of the best ways to both mitigate and adapt to a warming climate. The Mail: Letters from Our Readers 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Chow, an active investor in African agriculture and honorary consul in Macau for Cape Verde, also plans a development on neighboring Hengqin island. Macau mogul hopes dinosaurs trump volcanoes in new casino resort 2013-07-30T21:22:37Z Scrutiny of fashion’s connection to deforestation in the Amazon surged in 2019, when images of rainforest fires that were started to clear land for agriculture went viral. Did Your Handbag Help Destroy the Rainforest? 2022-02-05T05:00:00Z One 42-year-old father painted a Goya-like picture of his children’s adult life, “a hot-house hell, with wars over limited resources, collapsing civilisation, failing agriculture, rising seas, melting glaciers, starvation, droughts, floods, mudslides and widespread devastation”. Having kids increases global warming. But don’t blame the parents… 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z “Colony collapse disorder,” for example, refers to a problem plaguing honeybees, which in turn is threatening U.S. agriculture. This is a story about the arrival of 'clickbait' 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z The gentry needed more grassland to feed horses and livestock as England’s road network developed, fox hunting took off and agriculture expanded. The landscape architect who bottled nature 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z He spent two years in the Peace Corps in the 1970s teaching agriculture in what is now Congo before returning to his native Ohio and working in a winery. Jim Law of Linden Vineyards: The Virginia wine industry's oracle marks 30 years Beyond signing her name to food-related policies, Wu has ardently educated herself about Boston's food justice and urban agriculture landscape and supported its growth, advocates say. Is Michelle Wu America’s food justice mayor? 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z It led her to a Brazilian agriculture facility and the Vavilov Institute for Plant Industry in St. Petersburg, where antique wooden drawers hold the barley collection. Review | In the galleries: ‘Archiving Eden’ exhibition sprouts interest with macro photos 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z Few experts without vested interests in corporate agriculture would disagree with any of this, though little progress is being made. Books of The Times: Seeing a Time (Soon) When We?ll All Be Dieting 2010-08-24T21:30:00Z This is 2006; for land so close to the city to remain zoned for agriculture is, the developer suggests, shameful. The Crocodile by the Door by Selina Guinness - review 2012-11-23T22:55:01Z FRI-SUN Carnival rides, agriculture displays, entertainment, vendors, 10 a.m.-9:30 p.m. 1,000 Lights Water Lantern Festival, In the Spirit Northwest Native Festival and Seattle Arab Festival 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z When Natha's scheme is publicised, the reactions of the venal politicians, the media and the minister for agriculture are mercilessly satirised. Peepli Live 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z “The word ‘culture’ is embedded in the word ‘agriculture,’ ” Ms. Neuwirth said. ‘Behold! New Lebanon’ Offers Rural Tourism 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z Intensive agriculture has slashed the amount of carbon soils store by 60% and put 6 million hectares across England and Wales at risk of erosion or compaction, costing an estimated £1.2 billion a year. Environmental plan for England asks farmers to "restore nature" 2023-02-25T05:00:00Z He was made the first director of the UN's food and agriculture organisation in 1945, and tried to persuade the biggest grain producing nations to create a world grain bank. John Boyd Orr by Alasdair Gray 2011-08-12T21:55:16Z Typically run by universities or state agriculture departments, these offices offer free advice on gardening, pests and more. It’s outdoor entertaining season. Here’s how to keep the bugs at bay. 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z Technology is the future, not only in music, but in architecture and agriculture. Dancing in the street: Martha Reeves says the Motown spirit is needed in Detroit once again 2010-05-28T14:39:00Z The original version of the film claimed 51% of global greenhouse gases were produced by animal agriculture, based on a single, non-peer-reviewed academic paper – the scientific consensus is closer to 15%. The unstoppable rise of veganism: how a fringe movement went mainstream 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z Accordingly, this means that industries beyond agriculture have watched the Prop 12 case closely in the hopes of overturning it. With Proposition 12, the Supreme Court could be ruling on more than factory farms 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z He is the son of farmers who left school during the Cultural Revolution to work, first in agriculture and later in a factory, according to his Nobel biography. China’s Mo Yan Wins Nobel Literature Prize 2012-10-11T13:28:15Z These days he sees the idealized version of the small family farm in America as a contrast to the industrial techniques and scales that dominate modern agriculture. Farm Aid benefit concert heading to Hershey, Pa. 2012-07-09T10:57:18Z “Monoculture is not agriculture,” he said stroking one of the cows under her chin. The Italian Winemakers’ Cult 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z The national strategy also said there was increasing evidence that antibiotic use in agriculture was contributing to resistance rates. Australian government to crack down on antibiotic overuse in humans and animals 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z But what makes agriculture so important to climate progress isn’t so much the degree to which it’s adding to the problem — it’s the unique potential this sector has to contribute to the solution. How will California’s climate ambitions reshape food and agriculture? 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z Today, regenerative agriculture is promoted strongly by multinational food companies, advocacy groups and some parts of the farming community. ‘Regenerative agriculture’ is all the rage — but it’s not going to fix our food system 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z It has proved hard to scale up alternative methods, such as organic farming, as broadly as industrial agriculture. Computer science can help farmers explore alternative crops and sustainable farming methods 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z Even if we just consider our stone age ancestors—those folks whose stories span the time between the first stone tool and the first agriculture—the sides of the debate are polarized. Was ancient man a vegetarian? 2012-08-27T23:23:00Z Assembling a Berkshire picnic is a rewarding task in the county that pioneered both agricultural fairs and community-supported agriculture. 36 Hours in the Berkshires 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z But once the Chinese workers’ abundant and grueling labor had built the railroads and laid important groundwork for California agriculture, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed in 1882, barring their immigration into the country. Looking for a Gold-Rush Town Named Chinese Camp 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z The livestock shows sponsored by 4-H, the tractor pulls and agriculture demonstrations, the grandparents eating fried food alongside their grandchildren all act to preserve and promote a culture across the generations. A Blue-Ribbon Affair 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z A federal animal-research center in Nebraska will not be allowed to start any new experimental projects until it strengthens its procedures and internal oversight, the secretary of agriculture, Tom Vilsack, said Monday. Stricter Oversight Ordered for Animal Research at Nebraska Center 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Shafer continued, “Our message is meant to be positive to provide that much-needed education for the general public to know that agriculture is the mainstay of the economy in Goshen County, and has been forever.” Wyoming ranchers protest Burger King's ad campaign targeting cow emissions 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z We feel swept up in the promise and possibility of all that new technology, so much so that the turn from agriculture to agribusiness, though we know it’s coming, still delivers a crushing blow. A Sweeping History of What We Eat 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z The song is one of the most dramatic moments on his record, "Scarecrow" – a collection of songs that protest big agriculture's destruction of the family farmer, racism and American indifference to poverty. Bruce Springsteen and John Mellencamp can teach Jason Aldean a thing or two about small towns 2023-07-30T04:00:00Z “The common features that linked them, both in the past and today, are corn agriculture, pottery and living in . . . and adapting to this spectacular landscape,” Blinman said. A monumental journey through New Mexico 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z For Malik Yakini, executive director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network, urban agriculture cannot simply be about profits; it must be an act of social justice. Detroit: The Most Exciting City in America? 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z Rainforest Alliance certification tackles living wages, climate smart agriculture and the conservation of biodiversity, among other practices; it also seeks to prevent and otherwise tackle forced labor in tea supply chains. An exploration of the wonderful world of teas 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z But a growing movement of gardeners and small farmers is keeping alive the genetic diversity that modern agriculture has rejected. T Magazine: Children of the Corn 2011-09-22T01:30:18Z Millions of acres of corn and soybeans, and rising numbers of hogs, are intensively raised in its states, creating "an existential problem between agriculture and water quality," says IFC's Weber. Can more farmers be convinced to conserve and restore wetlands? 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z I have been visiting several times a year since 2009, volunteering with communities all over to plant trees and to instruct on sustainable agriculture. In Haiti, Tracing a Paradise Lost 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z Just 75 miles north of Seattle, it’s an area rich in agriculture and wildlife with a long history of family farming. Fresh produce, Sound views and more fill out a fun Skagit Valley day trip this fall 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z The Ingliston venue is more commonly used for gardening and agriculture shows. International festival goes large 2012-08-10T01:06:28Z A small bedroom without walls brings to mind an archaeological site like the ancient Anatolian city of Çatalhöyük, suggesting that domestic relationships haven’t changed all that much since the introduction of agriculture. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z The penalties for breaching Australia’s biosecurity laws are severe, according to the agriculture minister. Johnny Depp's dogs must 'bugger off' to US or face death for entering Australia illegally 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z In our research on rural development, agriculture and rural gender inequality, we have found that gender-based violence against female workers is frighteningly common on U.S. farms. Sexual violence is a pervasive threat for female farm workers 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z New research shows scientists have underestimated the climate risk to agriculture and global food production. Climate change threatens to cause "synchronized harvest failures" across the globe 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z The Tanzanian government is increasingly intervening in all sectors of the economy, from mining to telecoms to agriculture. Law passed to restrict foreign film production in Tanzania 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z In theory, California agriculture could sequester more carbon than it emits. How will California’s climate ambitions reshape food and agriculture? 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z Combining it computationally could help make agriculture more productive, healthy and sustainable in a rapidly changing world. Computer science can help farmers explore alternative crops and sustainable farming methods 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z A spokeswoman for the state agriculture department said New York City schools had not applied for reimbursement through the program; the city’s education department declined to say whether its schools met the 30 percent standard. New York’s Mayor Is Building an Agenda Around Food. Will It Satisfy? 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z Fowler says agriculture faces “its most severe set of challenges since the Neolithic period.” Dispelling myths around the Arctic Circle’s famed ‘doomsday’ seed vault 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z A few years ago I left the compound of billionaire Sunil Mittal, whom I was interviewing about his pan-India cellphone business, and his plans to transform world agriculture, with peasants in India filling Europe's tables. Rewards Of The Road 2011-02-02T23:00:00Z With his father, an agriculture research scientist, he inspected diseased and decaying trees; they also hunted deer, skinning and eating them. David Lynch: ‘You gotta be selfish. It's a terrible thing’ 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z “No? God of agriculture, wine and song? It’s cool. It’s been a while.” Review: The God of Wine Stirs No Sexual Whirlwind in ‘Hurricane Diane’ 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z The men find jobs as laborers in the Mafia-controlled agriculture sector, but Abas grows violent, refusing to tolerate the pervasive wage exploitation or the indignities of life in rat-infested makeshift villages. In ‘Mediterranea,’ Two Migrants Speak for Many 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z Nicol wants to transform the area into a wetland park, but says local officials insist on reclaiming the land for agriculture. Can we build a sustainable Japan? 2013-03-12T18:50:00Z The festooned residence became the venue for Dutch Tulip Days, when the ambassador over three days hosted a lunch, reception and dinner for lawmakers and other Washington politicos, as well as talks on Dutch agriculture. The Dutch ambassador’s tulip party: A 400-year-old passion still burns 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z But as our new research shows, regenerative agriculture may not be the transformation our global food system needs. ‘Regenerative agriculture’ is all the rage — but it’s not going to fix our food system 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z While Mr. Trump has yet to address the topic directly, he has tipped his hand with tough positions on trade and immigration and his nomination of former Gov. Sonny Perdue of Georgia as agriculture secretary. Looking for a Trump Doctrine in the White House Kitchen 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z Evans, who can be charming, stars as Cole, a clean-cut, down-to-earth farmer who dreams of publishing a book on the history of agriculture. ‘Ghosted’ Review: A C.I.A. Meet Cute 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z Its aim is to promote transformation in agriculture and agro-processing sectors affected by apartheid. South Africa’s smallholder vegetable farmers aren’t getting the finance they need 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z His initial impulse was to study agriculture and move to a kibbutz. A Master of Mixing and Matching Movies Gets a Citywide Tribute 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z Naturally, the guerrilla agriculture didn't sit well with UC officials, who eventually called in riot police to deal with the trespassers. 'Occupy the Farm' illustrates Berkley's battle with farmers 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z With its long history and connection with agriculture, locavorism and fermentation, mead seems a particularly outsider art in the often-corporate beverage world. As mead sheds its wenches-and-jousting image, I’ve started to come around 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z It doesn’t take long to notice that life in Iowa moves to the seasonal rhythms of agriculture. Iowa exudes a decency that even politics can’t undo 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z The village was abandoned in the 1950s when a pest called phylloxera devastated the vineyards and other agriculture of the area, driving the residents, Berti’s family included, to Milna in search of work. Next Stop: A Croatian Island’s Day in the Sun 2013-07-05T17:32:31Z The brothers own a vast energy, apparel and agriculture conglomerate called Koch Industries, the second-largest privately held company in the nation, and this is their first major investment in a news operation. Koch Brothers’ involvement in Time Inc. purchase raises concerns 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z “Wine is agriculture, and agriculture is wholly dependent on the environment and our relationship to the environment,” he said, reminding us that “there are no national boundaries in nature.” Does loving wine make you politically progressive? One writer thinks it should. 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z The Japanese outside of Fukushima Prefecture are hesitant to buy the local agriculture, dubious of government radiation testing. L.A. Phil's YOLA players are goodwill ambassadors near Fukushima 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Decades of industrial agriculture have caused environmental and social damage across the globe. ‘Regenerative agriculture’ is all the rage — but it’s not going to fix our food system 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z FRI-MON Carnival, vendors, entertainment, animal and agriculture displays, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Community calendar 2012-08-29T21:58:05Z The industrialisation of food and the vertical integration of agriculture just galloped forward. “We’ve become a food culture” 2012-11-19T12:45:00Z All these recommendations and so forth seem to be reiterations of how people were living before agriculture. The Paleo diet is more than a fad: “The lifestyle captures a certain discontent with modernity” 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z More perspective on the hard economics of agriculture would be helpful. Review: ‘Polyfaces,’ a Documentary About Sustainable Agriculture 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z A growing number of foods commonly found in kitchens across America have tested positive for glyphosate, the herbicide that is the main ingredient in the popular consumer pesticide Roundup, which is widely used in agriculture. Traces of Controversial Herbicide Are Found in Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z People everywhere lived in small, egalitarian hunter-gatherer groups, until the sudden invention of agriculture around 9,000 B.C. gave rise to sedentary societies and states based on inequality, hierarchy and bureaucracy. What if Everything You Learned About Human History Is Wrong? 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z Under this umbrella, food and agriculture are no longer seen as niche issues, but instead seamlessly integrated into a vision of government that prioritizes people and the planet. A political movement for food systems change takes hold in the Midwest 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z If you ask which sectors will dominate the economy of 10 or 20 years' time the answer is not cars or steel or ships, let alone agriculture. Happiness ? and how to find it 2011-04-02T23:13:57Z Mr. Berry decries the industrialization of agriculture, which he believes will lead us to forget the values that come from living off the land. Review: Rural Kentucky With Poet-Farmer Wendell Berry in ‘Look & See’ 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z We found regenerative agriculture shares many similarities with the first three movements listed above. ‘Regenerative agriculture’ is all the rage — but it’s not going to fix our food system 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z People talk about food justice, but where are the farmers who look like me and who were brought here as slaves to do agriculture? Let's call it what it is: food apartheid 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z He’d previously worked in agriculture in Mexico and California, but lavender was new to him. Peruse the purple: Now is the perfect time to visit Sequim’s fragrant lavender fields 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z Environmental Program now states that the number for all of agriculture is 11%, and cattle would be a tiny percentage of that. 'Case for Sustainable Meat' takes on many sacred cows 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z “Superbugs are gaining strength because we continue to squander these precious medicines through overuse in human medicine and as cheap production tools in animal agriculture.” ‘Antibiotic apocalypse’: doctors sound alarm over drug resistance 2017-10-08T04:00:00Z “The home market just isn’t conducive to early-stage tech – unless your vertical is property, agriculture or mining, in which case you’ll probably do just fine!” 'A spoilt brat country': the Australians overseas who decided not to come home 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z The environmental issues pervasive in industrial agriculture are not absent from the spice industry, either, even though spice farms can be relatively small in scale. When it comes to sustainable spices, ‘single-origin’ isn’t everything 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z She later did historical research on agriculture and architecture. Elizabeth Brown Pryor, biographer of Robert E. Lee and Clara Barton, dies 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z The push was successful, but now, the Senate is proposing cutting all of the discretionary funding the grants program receives through the agriculture appropriations bill. Making cheese or jam? A USDA program to pay farmers more for their crops faces cuts—again 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z Under our own criteria, therefore, Orville Freeman, the secretary of agriculture under President Johnson, could acquire responsibility for war crimes in Vietnam. Essay: Should We Have War Crime Trials? 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Two-thirds of all emissions from California agriculture come from the dairy and livestock sector, evenly split between methane from cow belches and methane from manure. How will California’s climate ambitions reshape food and agriculture? 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z He also wants to expand the work to 10,000 more farmers in the next four years to help the 40 million people there who rely on agriculture as a source of income, he said. Ben Affleck back on Capitol Hill, offers Congo progress report 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z “Our motivation was that animal agriculture was so under-discussed,” says Kuhn. The unstoppable rise of veganism: how a fringe movement went mainstream 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z Ten million years later, humans turned to agriculture “because we wanted booze” and needed to grow barley. Sloshed, Hammered, Blotto — We’ve Been Doing It for Ages 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z “On the Russian side, there’s no agriculture,” he said. Invisible Bridges: Life Along the Chinese-Russian Border 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z Sapolsky asserts that Pinker’s calculations include elementary errors, and that low rates of violence among contemporary hunter-gatherers mean that warfare did not predate agriculture. Insights Into the Brain, in a Book You’ll Wish You Had in College 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Lucas said that overproduction is affecting the hemp industry, in part, because people with limited experience are making their way into agriculture. For young farmers, hemp is a "gateway crop" 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z The suggestion is that agriculture prior to the industrial revolution was always sustainable. Five misused food and farming terms — and what they really mean 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z A central focus of the Last Hundred Years trilogy is the changing landscape of farming in America, with industrialization and big agriculture subsuming small family farms. Jane Smiley's 'Golden Age' brings an epic tale to a solemnly fine end 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z I think that many of our physical, metabolic aspects are controlled by genes which really haven’t changed substantially since agriculture. The Paleo diet is more than a fad: “The lifestyle captures a certain discontent with modernity” 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z His parents settled there after his father finished Harvard Business School, and his father approached agriculture in the Mississippi Delta with entrepreneurial zeal, he said. Up Close: A-List Parties: More Taste, Less Flash 2010-12-16T05:40:03Z Even among those who advocate a transition towards plant-based diets, the idea that we should ban animal agriculture outright isn't particularly popular. Escalating U.S.-Mexico debate over corn forces questions about GMOs, food sovereignty 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z In a brief video here, “Future of Food,” scientists suggest that contemporary agriculture contributes to global warming. Exhibition Review: ‘Our Global Kitchen,’ at American Museum of Natural History 2012-11-24T00:51:08Z The deforestation and fertilizer use associated with agriculture are a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions, and it’s a problem that’s going to become increasingly more so as the population grows. Eat less meat, save the planet — and yourself 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z Is organic agriculture really better for the environment? Perspective | One big reason some foods cost so much more than others 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z Actually, it was going to be a collection of essays, based on one ingredient and the best agriculture practices for a recipe that begins in the field. Dan Barber on ‘The Third Plate’: ‘Farm-to-table . . . has a fallacy attached to it’ By any standard the scale of achievement was enormous, but through it all, it seems clear that the economy remained rooted in agriculture. The Ancient Egyptian invention that made everything else possible 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z The garden grew out of an effort at the beginning of the 20th century by Mr. Flagler and Jo Sakai, a Japanese businessman, to bring over people from Japan to develop agriculture in South Florida. A Florida Town Where Turtles, and Even Humans, Can Relax 2010-02-19T06:13:00Z In typical French fashion, it also included a protest against a dip in agriculture prices. Journeys: Eco-Paris 2011-04-08T18:55:00Z The program is not just for wineries but also food and clothing industries — anything based on agriculture, really. The ROC certification could become the gold standard for wineries, and the earth 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z He offers his farmland for other queer farmers to find an entry point to agriculture and rural life. Taking to the Woods With Maine’s ‘Tree Tippers’ 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z Among people who care about our food system, there’s often hostility toward the suite of changes to American agriculture that can reasonably be called “industrialization.” Perspective | One big reason some foods cost so much more than others 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z “For the first time in generations, people see opportunity and potential to make a decent living from agriculture,” he said. For young farmers, hemp is a "gateway crop" 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z From the dining space, guests can look downstairs to where leafy greens grow on two tables designed for aquaponic agriculture, a system of growing plants in water tables where fish waste is converted to nutrients. Looking to dodge Amsterdam’s crowds? There are three remarkable towns a short train ride away. 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Today's approaches largely model and pursue optimizations of existing, often unsustainable systems of agriculture. Computer science can help farmers explore alternative crops and sustainable farming methods 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z The only other sign of agriculture was a ragged scarecrow on a pole. Explorer: Treading Lightly in the Simanjiro Plains of Tanzania 2011-05-20T18:55:00Z The idea is to turn the home of the maestro of “champagne music” into a draw that would also tout the importance of agriculture and the region’s German-Russian heritage. Lawrence Welk’s Home Sale in Jeopardy 2013-10-04T19:29:44Z Her father, who would become a prominent academic, studied agriculture in Scotland and brought home a Scottish bride, Ms. Saleh’s mother. A Ballerina’s Story, Once Upon a Time in Egypt 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z Each is practicing some form of regenerative agriculture, a philosophy based on building soil health and establishing a balanced ecosystem. Great Oregon Wines Beyond the Willamette Valley 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z So, this is not in the best interest of truth, integrity, agriculture and certainly not in the best interest for parents, and most definitely not in the interest of kids. Cooking with Jamie Oliver is cheap, easy — and requires only one pan 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z The soil on the green hills is rich enough in ash to support substantial agriculture. In Ischia, Italy, Cooking Is Done in the Sand, Not the Stove 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z Chefs are embracing the state’s role in agriculture, featuring products grown on the nearly 15 million acres of cultivated land in the state. Where to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner in Indianapolis 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z While village life may not be a universal experience, most modern civilizations have histories rooted in agriculture. “Marriage is an uncut watermelon”: How translation brought my native language to life 2014-03-21T22:58:00Z And he was a pioneer of sustainable agriculture, whose findings sometimes put him at odds with private industry. James Brandon Lewis, a Saxophonist Who Embodies and Transcends Tradition 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z We then compared this to other sustainable farming approaches: organic agriculture, conservation agriculture, sustainable intensification and agroecology. ‘Regenerative agriculture’ is all the rage — but it’s not going to fix our food system 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z It is used in agriculture, it is used in incarceration. ‘Access as an Ethic’: Giving Dance Myriad Points of Entry 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z Although vegetables are a small slice of our agriculture and our calories, it’s easy to see how the vegetable-farm solution gets traction. We need to feed a growing planet. Vegetables aren’t the answer. 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z By the time he was a teenager, however, he had decided to study agriculture and spent most of his 20s farming in Sussex. Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Operatic Tenor, Dies at 69 2010-07-27T05:28:00Z Shutting its mind to long-term effects, the government provided agriculture a technological fillip by incentivizing the use of pesticides, fertilizers, motorized pumps, and high-yield seeds. The legendary story of Thangam Philip: food scientist, nutritionist, chef and mentor 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z There are concerns about pollution from agriculture and damage from hydroelectric power schemes. Mystic river: Canoeing a living entity in New Zealand 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z People raise concerns over potential long-term health impacts, impacts on biodiversity and ecosystems and the increased corporate control over agriculture. What’s the latest on GMOs and gene-edited foods — and what are the concerns? 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z According to the USDA, 41% of nitrates in the Gulf of Mexico, for example, come from agriculture. Can more farmers be convinced to conserve and restore wetlands? 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z Kari Hamerschlag, deputy director of the Food and Agriculture Program at the environmental nonprofit Friends of the Earth, has been working on climate change and agriculture issues for over a decade now. How will California’s climate ambitions reshape food and agriculture? 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z During this time, the PHA Campaign was able to pair its criticism of industrial agriculture with the need to save water. How Cape Town's "Day Zero" crisis helped mobilize water conservation efforts 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z There’s also the idea, promoted by activists such as Vandana Shiva, that the agriculture indigenous to the developing world — with small farmers growing traditional crops — is a tradition to be protected. The last thing Africa needs to be debating is GMOs 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z The flow included the second world war, when she did hardly anything creative, but worked in a pacifist farming community practising organic agriculture. Pip Benveniste obituary 2010-09-16T18:15:00Z But finding a sustainable farming system is “perhaps the greatest challenge ever faced in the ten thousand years since agriculture began,” he writes. Books of The Times: Seeing a Time (Soon) When We?ll All Be Dieting 2010-08-24T21:30:00Z Cary Fowler, soft-spoken and polite, discusses his work with international organizations to counteract the plummet in crop diversity since the rise of modern agriculture. Review: ‘Seeds of Time,’ a Documentary on a Crusader for Crop Diversity 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z The Jornada Mogollon were among the first cultures to master corn agriculture, allowing them to live year-round in pit houses amid this jumble of granitelike rocks and boulders in far West Texas. In Texas’s Hueco Tanks State Park, the native art really rocks Imagine Captain Jack Sparrow apologising to the Australian government’s department of agriculture and water resources. Johnny Depp and Amber Heard's video is a terrifying insight into state mind control 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z With the domestication of animals, the rise of agriculture and the invention of metalworking, we entered the level of the barbarian. The World Until Yesterday by Jared Diamond – review 2013-01-09T10:22:31Z You have opportunities now to innovate in terms of how water is managed, the way it’s reused in agriculture. Why a culinary school decided to bridge business and education 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Regenerative agriculture is proposed as a more sustainable alternative to industrial agriculture. ‘Regenerative agriculture’ is all the rage — but it’s not going to fix our food system 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z Our increasing use of land, for agriculture, cities, roads, mining – as well as all the pollution we were creating – had started to modify our biosphere. Humans – the real threat to life on Earth 2013-06-29T23:05:50Z The city isn’t giving up on its dream to house larger-scale agriculture. Why a bright idea for growing food in the city had to move . . . to the country 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z With agriculture, human bodies changed so as as to cope with new foods. Was ancient man a vegetarian? 2012-08-27T23:23:00Z Kotn works with Egyptian cotton farmers to keep costs low while helping to revive a struggling agriculture business. 4 New Stores to Shop in New York 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z The rest — “those who are involved in agriculture, those who go overseas for work,” said Mr. Gurung — “they want the road.” Hiking the Annapurna Circuit in Nepal Before Roads Take Over 2010-03-20T00:19:00Z And I think one of the most important things to incentivize is agricultural sustainability, especially regenerative agriculture. The heat wave crushing the West is a preview of farmworkers’ hot future 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z The museum’s exhibits demonstrate how nature and humans shaped the region’s history and agriculture. Bikes and ferries combine for a freewheeling Dutch adventure 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Here, the qualities of conscientious agriculture, cultural tradition, craftsmanship, distinctiveness and deliciousness converge at prices that make these bottles worth seeking out. 20 Wines for Under $20: The Spring Edition 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z The recipe database on MyPlate, the agriculture department’s healthy-eating website, includes 98 dishes classified as “American,” but just 28 “Asian” recipes and nine “Middle Eastern” ones. Is American Dietetics a White-Bread World? These Dietitians Think So 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z Because he grew up on a farm, Dane Winkler does not see agriculture as pastoral. In the galleries: Inspired by their homelands and beyond 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Combs, former state agriculture commissioner and comptroller of Texas, met with Vice President-elect Mike Pence on Tuesday, leading some political observers to speculate that she could be named to head the Department of Agriculture. Will a former romance novelist be the next U.S. secretary of Agriculture? 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Can you speak to how heat will also change the ability to grow certain crops and could alter agriculture as we know it in the San Joaquin Valley? The heat wave crushing the West is a preview of farmworkers’ hot future 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z Barber devotes the book’s last lines to Jones, saying that his work “is the difference between an antiquated system of agriculture and the possibility for a future of delicious food.” Dan Barber & Nancy Leson talk about the future of food 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z Interest is rising in "carbon farming" — paying farmers for practices such as no-till agriculture and planting cover crops, which some studies indicate can increase carbon storage in soil. These four challenges will shape the next farm bill — and how the US eats 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z Nicolson's delicious pudding of a book mixes history, anecdote and agriculture with sharp sketches of the people he meets along the way. Adam Nicolson: The Constant Gardener 2010-05-20T11:30:00Z In “The Coming of Post-Industrial Society,” he foresaw the global spread of service-based economies as generators of capital and employment, supplanting those dominated by manufacturing or agriculture. Daniel Bell, Ardent Appraiser of Politics, Economics and Culture, Dies at 91 2011-01-26T16:05:52Z Moreover, our industrial agriculture and its agents are not fond of melon seeds. Don't trash the best part of the melon 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z Farmers and others in the sustainable food movement pursue a broader vision of change in agriculture. Perspective | Agriculture can indeed fix our food system — if we reimagine it 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z A: Many pioneers of regenerative agriculture are finding that their farms are more resilient to drought and flood and extreme weather than with the older established farming techniques. ‘We really need to wake up quickly’: Al Gore warns of a looming food crisis caused by climate change 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z “Most of my career was about good soil leads to good agriculture and good systems and ultimately good flavor,” David Barber said. No Soil. No Growing Seasons. Just Add Water and Technology. 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z The Farm Bill sets the agenda for U.S. agriculture. Perspective | Agriculture can indeed fix our food system — if we reimagine it 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z The USDA’s farm in Beltsville, Md., tests five kinds of agriculture: two conventional and three organic. Is organic agriculture really better for the environment? 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z Although Kinky has been out of the political limelight since his unsuccessful bid to become the Texas agriculture commissioner, in 2014, he has not forgotten how to campaign. The Summer of Kinky Friedman 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z Green agriculture, it states, “is capable of delivering sufficient yields to feed the entire world population.” The food industry isn’t going to ditch pesticides any time soon, but you can in your own garden 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z His girlfriend, Sydney Boehm, 25, who works for a farm services company, said, “Tyson’s passionate about livestock, and he’s passionate about agriculture, and he’s passionate about his singing.” Karaoke Singers Live the Dream at the Illinois State Fair 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z “My mind is lit up with other things now; I’m looking into agriculture and stockbreeding,” he told the interviewer. Why Brazil’s Greatest Writer Stopped Writing 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z However in the inevitable horse-trading that goes on in Brussels, the proposed increase to the research budget is under threat from those supporting the agriculture and infrastructure budgets. Science funding and the EU: you've got to be in it to win it 2013-01-27T00:06:16Z Overall, agriculture accounts for 70% of global freshwater consumption, 38% of total land use and 19% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions; within this, the footprint of meat and dairy production is heavily disproportionate. The unstoppable rise of veganism: how a fringe movement went mainstream 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z Project Drawdown estimates that rice cultivation is responsible for about 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture and that shifting rice production to a set of practices that cut methane could have significant impacts. What you need to know about the environmental impacts of rice production 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z And it was well back in the B.C.’s that we realized agriculture was more efficient than the foraging-and-hunting thing. ArtsBeat Blog: Channel Surfing: 'Trashopolis' 2011-11-06T14:00:48Z Not the topsoil of those farms, “one of the jewels of global agriculture” formed over millenniums, depleted by monoculture and left to wash away in the increasingly uncontrollable and erratic deluges caused by climate change. The Full Measure of America’s Farming and Food Crisis 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z From 2007-9 he worked as a sustainable agriculture volunteer for the Peace Corps in Senegal. Jillian Bell, Stephen Wood 2018-04-29T04:00:00Z I agree with all my heart and seek your support in tackling one of the largest underlying causes of the problems we face: animal agriculture,” Butler wrote. Vegan group offers Pope Francis $1 million to go vegan for Lent 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z “There are certain things that Canadians and Americans do differently and names on things happen to be one of those,” says Jim Ochterski, agriculture issues leader at Cornell University’s Cooperative Extension. Saskatoon: The Berry That Became an International Incident 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z The monoculture agriculture there," Weissenberger writes, "requires more and more fertilizer and pesticide use. Conservation-photo award winners at the Burke: beautiful, brutal, complex 2012-07-13T19:37:03Z To some Aboriginal readers, he’s too Eurocentric, with his emphasis on sedentary agriculture. He Wants to Save the Present With the Indigenous Past 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z As Bill Stowe, the C.E.O. of Des Moines Waterworks, notes, agriculture in Iowa primarily supports industrial livestock and ethanol production. ‘8 Billion Angels’ Review: Giving Earth Top Billing 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z “My father used to say that agriculture is the heart of every country,” she said. Local Food in Puerto Rico Finds Energy in Recovery 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z Its diminutive size belies its formidable contrast, philosophically speaking, to the dusty packaged foods next door and the large industrial agriculture presence on Rosebud. Envisioning indigenous food sovereignty as "a whole ecosystem" 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z An officer in the royal army, Allende was a member of the elite Basque society of San Miguel, where his family was involved in mining, agriculture, commerce, politics and religious laymen’s fraternities. Three Cities on the Mexican Independence Trail 2010-08-20T17:51:00Z We believe a basic income guarantee is a promising tool for contributing to sustainability and justice across agriculture and fishing sectors, while encouraging the development of cross-sectoral networks, research and policy agendas. Basic income could help create a more just and sustainable food system 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z The public policy institute — which is projected to open in 2015 — will expand the museum’s portfolio far beyond the arts, to include economics, employment, conservation, agriculture and more. Museum for African Art Regroups With a Broader Mandate 2013-08-23T18:23:58Z The industrial animal agriculture system is unnecessarily cruel to animals; wreaks havoc on the environment and public health, polluting waterways and the air surrounding factory farms; and is built on exploitative labor practices. 6 tips for adopting the vegan diet 2021-04-25T04:00:00Z He has been awarded just about every plaque and ribbon they hand out for agriculture and conservancy in Georgia. At White Oak Pastures, Grass-Fed Beef Is Only the Beginning 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z The chef activist speaks to Doug Aitken in Berkeley, Calif., at an Edible Schoolyard, her project to educate students about agriculture, economy and the environment. | Alice Waters in Conversation With Doug Aitken 2014-01-27T16:58:46Z The Tehran reactor produces radio-isotopes for use in medical treatments and agriculture. Iran to load own nuclear fuel rods in Tehran reactor 2012-02-15T12:59:02Z Imagining what agriculture could be like on Mars is a fascinating project, but it's when we think about how these technologies may affect life on Earth that this topic becomes extremely serious. Could we feed a city on Mars? 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z For example, agriculture has been improved significantly through the application of space-based advances to terrestrial challenges. Space agriculture boldly grows food where no one has grown before 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z The first hamburger made entirely of lab-grown meat hit the grill in 2013, but the cellular agriculture industry is still facing many of the same challenges and setbacks from those early days. Mouth-watering flavor is harder to engineer than we hoped 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z It’s a growing buzzword in fashion, thanks to regenerative agriculture, a farming technique that helps to restore soil health and nutrients. What Was Fashion Doing at COP26? 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z This information is used to create the Agriculture-Population linkage database, which provides useful information about Indigenous engagement in agriculture in Canada. Indigenous food sovereignty requires better and more accurate data collection 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z The meatball was the product of one of this century's most promising technological advancements — cellular agriculture. Italy is set to ban lab-grown meat — here’s why that might be a mistake 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z Fleet Farming Located: Orlando, Florida Serving: Orlando Details: Fleet Farming is a nonprofit urban agriculture program that also offers edible landscaping services. Edible landscapes are un-lawning America 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z Those sorts of wines are often less expensive as well, as automation and additives are cheaper alternatives to more conscientious, labor-intensive agriculture and winemaking. 20 Wines Under $20: Postcards From Around the World 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z But the state’s settlement with the tobacco industry in 1998 brought $1.9 billion to Kentucky, much of it invested in diversifying agriculture, which has helped seed new vegetable farms, aquaponic ventures and farmers’ markets. In Lexington, Selfies With American Pharoah, Then ‘Bourbon and Branch’ 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z As is the case in many sectors, corporate control dominates the agriculture industry in the United States. Learn about the fight for values-based food purchasing — and recommendations from a new report 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z Case in point is the machine that has probably had the biggest impact on American agriculture: the combine. Perspective | One big reason some foods cost so much more than others 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z He is, in fact, talking about green energy sources and investing in sustainable agriculture. The TV Watch: Prince Charles Dishes Dirt (the Organic Kind) 2010-11-19T06:00:00Z This year, at the United Nations 2023 Water Conference, the biggest water conference in 50 years, water for agriculture topped many countries' lists of concerns. Crop irrigation has changed, according to a new study 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z The labor shortage created by World War II further cemented custom harvesting’s place in Great Plains agriculture. Racing against the harvest, custom wheat cutters struggle to stay relevant 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z While much-needed reporting has generated a public outcry against arduous work conditions for migrant child laborers, migrant children have worked in agriculture in the U.S. for decades — legally. Sexual violence is a pervasive threat for female farm workers 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z “For example, organic wastes from agriculture or even sewage.” Gut microbe makes diesel biofuel 2013-04-25T15:14:00Z The rolling farmland in this northwest corner of Georgia has never lent itself to the plantation agriculture that once dominated other parts of the South. Her Family Owned Slaves. How Can She Make Amends? 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z Small, diversified farms bring benefits to their communities. I’ve never talked with anyone who thinks incorporating agriculture into communities is a bad idea. Small vs. large: Which size farm is better for the planet? “The only way to revive our ancestral land and demonstrate its beauty and diversity is to abide by the laws of natural agriculture and biodynamics,” Mr. Harb said. Exploring Lebanon’s Green Side 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z A sociologically inclined viewer will gather a lot of information concerning agriculture, vocational education, gender roles, the role of the state and the state of the South. ‘Futura’ Review: Youth, Italian Style 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z Even back then, Ms. Wasserman foresaw that Burgundy’s future lay in re-embracing the sort of agriculture that predated chemical farming, which permitted both grapes and wines to be more expressive. A Farewell to Becky Wasserman, a Great Sage of Burgundy 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z It’s OK if your food is still warm when you pack it up, the national agriculture and food safety authority reports. How long can you keep Thanksgiving leftovers? 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z They do not always fit easily in conventional profiles for innovation and entrepreneurship in agriculture nor into standard narratives of Australia's agricultural development. Hidden women of history: How "Lady" Williams founded a great Australian apple 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z Too rugged for large-scale agriculture, the longtime French possession was a colonial afterthought, flipped to Sweden in 1784 for trading privileges in the port of Gothenburg. 36 Hours in St. Barts 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z His brief speech was devoted to agriculture’s role in climate change, noting that after energy, agriculture is the second-largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Obama Sees New Front in Climate Change Battle: Agriculture 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z The Pennsylvania location is fitting since agriculture is the state's leading industry. Behind the music, Farm Aid's work helps farmers 2012-09-20T22:34:09Z Friedlander points to the centuries-old development of Islamic legal traditions and the fact that animal agriculture operated in a very different context then. Sustainable halal meat is making inroads in Muslim communities 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z And while we don't have the ability to identify the exact sources of the dust, agriculture is likely the cause given the seasonality of the dust, which is often heavy during harvest time, explains Hand. Dust is a growing problem. What role does farmland play? 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z The 83 large artifacts in the museum demonstrate America’s transition from agriculture to industry, and highlight the history of the people who designed, worked or lived in them. Everything Is Bigger at Open-Air Museums 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z Amélie Gaudin, one of the scientists who co-authored the letter, has become a staunch believer in the importance of a firm target for emissions reductions on agriculture and natural lands. How will California’s climate ambitions reshape food and agriculture? 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z Environmentalists and farmers alike applauded this investment, which is intended to help the agriculture sector embrace climate-smart farming practices and move toward markets that reward carbon sequestration and other ecosystem services. These four challenges will shape the next farm bill — and how the US eats 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z The films that are actually about agriculture range around the world, from Africa to Asia to the New Jersey Meadowlands and Red Hook, Brooklyn. Critic?s Notebook: Filmmakers Head to the Country, in Several Countries 2011-08-04T22:40:22Z That’s a measly 1 percent of our total acreage; if you want to fix agriculture, it’s the other 99 percent that need your attention. We need to feed a growing planet. Vegetables aren’t the answer. 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z However, bigger changes are underway for sustainable agriculture. Perspective | Agriculture can indeed fix our food system — if we reimagine it 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z He wanted a female lead to represent a shift in formerly “male-dominated” Icelandic agriculture, with more women running farms. 'They're behaving as capitalists': the film inspired by Iceland's farming stranglehold 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z The history of agriculture alone deserves a deep dive since it gives us an idea of how far we’ve come in terms of how much we can grow on a single acre of land. Super Storm Sandy wiped out some restaurants for months but one midtown pizzeria served days later 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z “A bigger problem than climate change is attracting good, young people to agriculture,” Mr. Forbes said. Australian Wine Today: Fresh, Crunchy and ‘Smashable’ 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Many immigrants come to this region to find work in agriculture, poultry and seafood processing. Underpaid and overlooked, migrant labor provides backbone of Maryland Eastern Shore’s local economy 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z Regenerative agriculture is one alternative creating a lot of buzz, especially in rich, industrially developed countries. ‘Regenerative agriculture’ is all the rage — but it’s not going to fix our food system 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z It will also become an important tool for children in this workshop at the Queens Botanical Garden, where they will explore Carver’s legacy in agriculture and engineering. Spare Times for Children for Feb. 14-20 2014-02-14T00:09:30Z But the company, which is using sustainable agriculture methods, hopes to coax ever better fruit from its fields. Finding Lost Apples and Reviving a Beloved Cider 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z Mum was a painter and my dad worked in agriculture. Top 10 tips for being a cinematographer 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z He will discuss milk — as it relates to issues like agriculture and child-rearing — with Kat Johnson of Heritage Radio Network. Milk, It Does a Lecture Good 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z In 2016, Snap helped more than 13 million African American households put food on the table, according to data from the US agriculture department’s fiscal year 2016 Snap Households Characteristic data. Food bank braces for surge in demand after Trump strips 700,000 of benefits 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Individual factors such as Varroa mites or overwork in monocultural fields would be more manageable in isolation but are compounded by a staple of American agriculture: pesticides. 'It's only important if you eat food': inside a film on the honeybee crisis 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z At the same time, they're linked to traditional agriculture by the notion of "reaping". Poem of the week: Autobiography Without Pronouns by Tiffany Atkinson 2013-04-08T10:09:25Z SAT Auction and dinner to benefit Seattle Youth Garden Works urban youth agriculture education, 5 p.m. Community calendar 2011-09-28T21:16:04Z She went on to study agriculture in Milan, and then settled there with her husband and three children, longing to return south for decades. Discovering the Ruins of Italy’s Ionian Coast 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z Petra breathlessly outlines the technological advances of the "green revolution," which radically altered agriculture in the 1960s and '70s by engineering high-yield crops now credited with saving over a billion people worldwide from starvation. A new kind of dinner theater takes off in Seattle 2011-11-02T21:04:04Z Ultimately, the future of Cuban agriculture will be decided in Cuba. A Rush of Americans, Seeking Gold in Cuban Soil 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z Raising goats, pigs, ducks, hogs and chickens, Mr. Ross is constantly thinking about regenerative agriculture and sustainability. One Huge Hog, One Long Day and a Nourishing Southern Tradition 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z Australian agriculture is highly exposed to climate change because rainfall and temperatures are so strongly influenced by El Niño. Climate change threatens to cause "synchronized harvest failures" across the globe 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z For example, some proposals would expand the H-2A program and require workers already in the U.S. to continue working in agriculture for a number of years to receive a green card. Sexual violence is a pervasive threat for female farm workers 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z “The mayor’s newer policies leverage the buying power of city agencies to create systemic change,” said Angela Davis, the director of food access and agriculture for GrowNYC, an environmental nonprofit. New York’s Mayor Is Building an Agenda Around Food. Will It Satisfy? 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z Chisholm made waves in the House when she appealed her initial committee assignment in agriculture to find a committee more relevant to her district. Black history through the years: 10 famous figures in the US 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z The debate is likely to be settled, at least legally, when the agriculture department decides what to require on the label. The New Secret Chicken Recipe? Animal Cells. 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z The mastering of agriculture led to a sense of territory that led to wars. Television Review: ‘Mankind: The Story of All of Us,’ on History 2012-11-12T22:08:23Z It is also a source and destination for forced labor, including domestic workers and those in mining and agriculture. Colombia needs more prosecutors to fight human trafficking 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z "But really, I think of it as an experimental station to look at various sustainable agriculture approaches." AP Interview: Cameron sees epic series of 'Avatar' films 2013-12-16T14:23:34Z In Egypt, tourism was only about 6% of GDP in 2014, but its influence on other sectors is immense, particularly in agriculture, the country’s biggest employer. Can Middle East tourism ever recover? 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z The drought-hit Horn of Africa urgently needs funds to rebuild agriculture and fight famine. Music stars campaign to end hunger crisis in Africa 2011-08-10T14:05:28Z |
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