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Brainfood: Marroon rice, Dutch aroids, Sicilian saffron, Inca agriculture, Native American agriculture, Mexican peppers, Afro-Mexican agriculture, Sahelian landraces, Small-scale fisheries, Coconut remote sensing

Agricultural Biodiversity

Yield, growth, and labor demands of growing maize, beans, and squash in monoculture versus the Three Sisters. Afro-Indigenous harvests: Cultivating participatory agroecologies in Guerrero, Mexico. The sedimentary record can be used to recover traditional knowledge too. And vice versa. domestication in Mexico.

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25 Books Guiding Us Toward More Regenerative Food Systems

Food Tank

Decolonizing African Agriculture: Food Security, Agroecology and the Need for Radical Transformation by William G. But he believes that there is a new way forward, advocating for a transformation that supports agroecology, rural communities, and networks of smaller cities. Moseley In Decolonizing African Agriculture , William G.

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The U.S.-Mexico tortilla war

Food Environment and Reporting Network

Mexico’s challenge has also bolstered its standing as hemispheric leader of an agroecology movement gaining momentum across the global south. “If The closest analogues—wheat in the countries of Europe, rice across Asia—pale beside the cultural and dietary importance of maize in the land where it was first domesticated.

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