Cryptoforestry

The food hearth theory of  Nikolai Vavilov is obviously outdated. In searching for later insights I stumbled on the Dictionary of cu...

Map your recipe can tell you where some of the ingredients were first domesticated, but it won't tell you where they are grown today...

Three maps freed with a little screen-shot magic from a Google Books preview of Vavilov's ' Origin and Geography of Cult...

Carl Sauer, cultural geographer, author of the brilliant New Spanish Main on the Spanish landnam of America after Columbus, also wr...

 " Looking for Ways to Beat the Weeds " is a recent article in the NYT by Carl Zimmer that looks at the way agricultural plants c...

Quoting from an interview between the Yale environmental website e360 and Susanna Hecht on the positive effect globalization has on the ...

The Amazonian Indian techniques of swiddening is not just a bit of slashing and a bit of burning. Swiddens have a long use and sh...

The greater plantain , but the Algonquin called it the White Man's Foot or the Englishman's foot because it appeared everywhere th...

Andean potato harvest The best chapter in Wendell Berry's 'The Unsettling of America', an agro-isolationist tract well wor...

Two days ago I learned a new word: gleaning : Gleaning is the act of collecting leftover crops from farmers' fields after they have b...

Diversity is in an undisputed worldwide crisis. In Europe, where we have long ago eradicated a staggering amount of it, we take biological a...