The Green Revolution: Representations of Hunger and Agriculture in India
The Green Revolution: Representations of Hunger and Agriculture in India In the 1940s, the Rockefeller Foundation funded research in Mexico in the development of new “high-yielding varieties” of wheat that could produce more grain given certain conditions. This project caught the attention of the U.S. government and other funders, who pushed to expand similar agricultural […]
Diversity and Adaptation: Pastoral Nomads
Since the origins of pastoralism, different pastoral groups have used different strategies to survive. The economies, subsistence systems, and cultural identities of pastoralists are adaptive strategies that exist because of there ability to provide a livelihood for the people who practice them. Taking a cultural ecological perspective we will consider the culture of pastoralists as […]
My Fermentation Journey
Fibers and fruit skins floated on top of the bubbly, purple liquid. It must be vino de uvita by now I thought. My friend Alonso and I strained out enough of the concoction for two glasses full. The drink was very tart but also sweet with an intriguing yet difficult to describe character to it……..It was […]