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Agricultural extension has long been the subject of scholarly critiques for its hierarchical approach to knowledge transfer and its complicity in promoting agricultural intensification and farm sector consolidation. Here, however, this study suggests that there are already-existing examples of different kinds of agricultural extension practices, ones that challenge the capitalist—understood...
مقال في مجلة
2024
This paper aims to share and analyze the difficulties and discomfort that social scientists may face when conducting transdisciplinary research. Focusing on the case study of a research project that brought together farmers, farm advisors, social and biotechnical science teachers, and researchers interested in seed management and participatory plant breeding,...
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2024
This omnibus film presents several young families practicing organic or natural farming in different regions in Japan including Odawara City, Kanagawa Prefecture, and Gojo City, Nara Prefecture. Some of them are refugees of the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident of March 2011. The director of the film, Mr. Okada who is...
Japan
فيديو
2024
This article traces the coming of a genetically modified (GM) cotton-agrochemical complex to highland eastern India. In this region of rich biodiversity and Indigenous systems of food and agroecology, GM cotton cultivation has seen a meteoric rise over the past decade. It explores how this shift from a no-input polyculture...
India
مقال في مجلة
2024
Soils, the basis of agroecosystems, have been generated and continuously modified not only by the interaction of physical, chemical, and biological factors but also by human activities, driven by local values and knowledge. The way different peoples relate to soil thus reflects diverse ways of knowing and being, and has...
Mexico
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2024
This study embarks on an in-depth examination of “Afro-Indigenous communities” in the state of Guerrero, Mexico, scrutinizing the intricate relationships between the hacienda system’s historical legacies and local agroecological practices. Employing a blend of historical–geographical analysis, ethnography, and participatory methods, the study exposes how ethnoracial identities, particularly Afro-Indigenous, are intrinsically...
Mexico
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2024
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