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The agriculture industry loves to depict indigenous farmers as slack jawed cretins. But there is a whole world of interesting work on SKILL. Fresh off the press blog
www.ids.ac.uk/opinions/spe...
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Special issue: where do skills reside in agriculture? - Institute of Development Studies
Where do skills reside? Do they dwell in people, in practices, in technologies? The question might seem abstract, but it helps us to think shrewdly about how changing skills can respond to new challen...
https://www.ids.ac.uk/opinions/special-issue-where-do-skills-reside-in-agriculture/
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Our latest paper engages
@gdstone.bsky.social
's theory of agricultural deskilling. We introduce the theory of âagrarian skillingâ to expand and complement Stone's theory of agricultural knowledge production. Open access at this link:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00307270251335671
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No kidding... the most famous chart showing the triumph of science in food production actually shows one of agriculture's biggest dumpster fires
tinyurl.com/ae2wssj4
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No more Bayer necessities! End of the road for Roundup?
tinyurl.com/mwsb6bz8
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Farmersâ Favorite Weedkiller Nears Its End, Bayer Warns
The German company cites mounting costs from lawsuits blaming Roundup for causing cancer.
https://tinyurl.com/mwsb6bz8
6 months ago
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Mexico forced by trade tribunal to import
#GMO
corn because the objections are "not based on science." De veras? Two top Mexican scientists (including former director of national science agency) speaking on this
tinyurl.com/3pntut95
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Mexican scientists to speak on GM corn risks
https://tinyurl.com/3pntut95
8 months ago
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Aquabounty
#GMO
salmon faceplant in an Ohio town
tinyurl.com/yes8tuvd
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The One That Got Away: This Small Town Is Left in Limbo After Betting Big on GMO Salmon
AquaBounty GMO salmon was going to be the future of fish â and the future for one Ohio village that offered incentives to make a new facility happen. But years after breaking ground, there are no fanc...
https://tinyurl.com/yes8tuvd
8 months ago
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I know a physical anthropologist who just had an NSF proposal on neanderthal thermoregulation flagged for some sort of wokeness. I wish I were joking.
add a skeleton here at some point
8 months ago
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Repeating a myth doesnât make it true. Green Revolution didn't cause "staggering" food increases
tinyurl.com/nhe5b3ey
. In India, which was supposedly on the verge of famine, it didnât increase the food growth rate in India at all.
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How many historical errors can a neo-Malthusian screed have?
tinyurl.com/nhe5b3ey
says the Green Revolution spread to cattle & chicken farming. Green Rev started in '67 in India, >3 decades after poultry factory farms started in Delmarva, >1 decade after cattle feedlots spread to absorb excess corn.
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Breakfast for Eight Billion
Fertilization, irrigation, genetics: the three practices that let us feed the whole world for the first time in history
https://tinyurl.com/nhe5b3ey
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âȘHow many historical errors can one neo-Malthusian screed have?
tinyurl.com/nhe5b3ey
implies the Dutch famine of 1944-45 was an example of persistent European famine. Not the Nazi food blockade?
#hunger
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Breakfast for Eight Billion
Fertilization, irrigation, genetics: the three practices that let us feed the whole world for the first time in history
https://tinyurl.com/nhe5b3ey
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How many historical errors can a neo-Malthusian screed have?
tinyurl.com/nhe5b3ey
says Haber & Bosch "completed their work in the run-up to" WW2 so their process wasn't used much until after the war. ??? It produced millions of tons of explosives in WW2; was even used by the Germans in WW1.
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Breakfast for Eight Billion
Fertilization, irrigation, genetics: the three practices that let us feed the whole world for the first time in history
https://tinyurl.com/nhe5b3ey
8 months ago
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New book by Liza Grandia: Guatemalan peasants give Monsanto a rap on the snout.
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10 months ago
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OK, LMAO. Now for more on Campbell's Soup: did u know that they co-sponsored development of the first
#GMO
food crop, the FlavrSavr tomato, but then decided not to use it in their own soups, to avoid compromising their brand's image.
tinyurl.com/bdf82eaf
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10 months ago
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New article: New
#digital
"agricultural revolution" in
#India
.
tinyurl.com/2ejtufa8
But as you can see, I'm getting to be the buzzkill guy on digital agriculture. (Here's why in case you're interested
tinyurl.com/53fzw4ms
. It's about
#SurveillanceAgriculture
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https://tinyurl.com/2ejtufa8Pretty
10 months ago
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New blog post: GOOD LUCK WITH THE CORN, RFK YOU A-HOLE
fieldquestions.com/2024/12/10/g...
10 months ago
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New documentary: Out of Plain Sight featuring the awesome Rosanna Xia (who found out abt the 550k barrels of DDT off California) and the incredible Barbara Cohn (who found out abt DDT's long-term health effects). Gives new meaning to "forever chemicals."
tinyurl.com/3kwh49am
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PHI's Dr. Cohn Featured in âOut of Plain Sightâ Documentary on DDT and Health - Public Health Institute
Dr. Barbara Cohn, Director and Senior Research Scientist at PHI's Child Health and Development Studies is featured in Out of Plain Sight, a new documentaryâŠ
https://tinyurl.com/3kwh49am
11 months ago
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