Modern agriculture system has undergone significant changes over the past several decades. As the farm sector has...
Agriculture
The olive tree was Athena’s sacred gift, a household necessity, a protected legal object, a source of...
Africa was humanity’s first home, but agriculture emerged through a long, uneven history shaped by climate, foraging,...
Ancient farmers transformed swamps, deserts, rainforests, highlands, and lakebeds into productive food systems through remarkable environmental engineering....
Ancient Mesoamerican farmers transformed forests, wetlands, slopes, and lakebeds into productive landscapes that sustained cities, rituals, markets,...
Throughout history, certain crops have done more than feed communities—they have saved human life, prevented famine, strengthened...
The agrarian history of ancient Mesopotamia offers one of the earliest and clearest demonstrations that economic collapse...
The Roman experience demonstrates with unusual clarity that agrarian collapse is never merely an economic event. By...
Enclosure demonstrates how profoundly law and markets can reshape social life without overt coercion. Collapse becomes structural...
The Great Depression stands as a turning point in American agricultural history not simply because it devastated...
The equipment small farms use these days is lightyears beyond what was available even twenty years ago....
Literature inspired by the tension between Sumerian farmers and herdsmen who both required land. Introduction The Debate...
Hemp shaped, and was shaped by, the ancient world’s technological and cultural diversity. Far from serving a...
Hemp’s long history in the United States reveals its centrality to the material foundations of colonial, frontier,...
Did people in the ancient and medieval worlds genetically modify crops? If we mean deliberate alteration of...
Taken together, these arguments form a mosaic of resistance. They range from misunderstandings of genetics to genuine...
The country’s food pantries are “stretched to the breaking point”. By Amanda BeckerWashingrton CorrespondentThe 19th News Oaks...
Farmers say they will quit growing the plant altogether under a total THC ban. By Jayme Lozano...
Whatever purpose the song served, it was clearly popular as many copies have been found. Introduction The Song...
Trump’s tariffs have created a complex and challenging environment for U.S. farmers. By Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate...
“Thanks to Trump, the total cost of my seed treater had risen from $12,810 to $26,132.” By...
Corn itself was a deity who gave itself for the good of the people Introduction Corn (maize)...
Israeli attacks on land, wells, and greenhouses are exacerbating famine risk. Less than five percent of the...
Helping communities eat more plants has many benefits—health and food production among them—but it’s also good for...
Choosing the correct tractor is an important decision for farmers since varied soil types and farming situations...
Farms rely heavily on immigrants. By Nada HassaneinHealth Care Reporter”Stateline Introduction If President-elect Donald Trump follows through...
Renaissance paintings, medieval archives, cloistered orchards. By Mark SchapiroLecturer in JournlismUniversity of California, Berkeley When Isabella Dalla...
Examining to ‘food-water stack’. By Morgan BooherSpecialist, Food and WaterCentre for Nature and ClimateWorld Economic Forum By...
Projects are afoot to clean up salty groundwater. By Lela NargiAuthor, Editor, Journalist Introduction Ralph Loya was...
The potato war first started in the states. Introduction Most debates in the House are settled on...