agriculture definition

Some readers�as viewers!�may be interested (assuming you�ve yet to see it) in the recent documentary on the remarkable and inspiring life of Dolores Huerta on PBS (Independent Lens): �Dolores.� And should you have missed its earlier posting, here is my bibliography for �C�sar Ch�vez & the United Farm Workers � and the Struggle of Farm Workers in the U.S.� Image: �Yreina D.Cerv�ntez� 1989 mural La Ofrenda , painted under a bridge in downtown Los Angeles.... In it, Cerv�ntez�an artist and Chicana activist�pays homage to Dolores Huerta, co-founder with C�sar Ch�vez of the United Farm Workers of America.�

My latest bibliography, on the history, causes, and consequences of famine, is here . Compilations with significant family resemblance: Beyond Inequality: Toward the Globalization of Welfare, Well-Being and Human Flourishing Beyond Capitalist Agribusiness: Toward Agroecology & Food Justice Ecological & Environmental Politics, Philosophies, and Worldviews Global Distributive Justice Health: Law, Ethics & Social Justice Marxism

� Agriculture Wars � By Nick Murray (March 12, 2018), for Viewpoint Magazine   �The town of Maricopa may be surrounded by Arizona desert, but a small plot of land near its northern border may qualify as the most closely studied piece of farmland our planet has ever produced. Here stands the LemnaTec Scanalyzer. Weighing some 50,000 pounds, the device sits on a steel gantry that moves back and forth along tracks that line the field. It monitors the growth of every plant below it, and by the end of the day it generates five to eight terabytes of data. What it records could help scientists develop the next generation of genetically modified seeds. The University of Arizona, the company LemnaTec and the U.S. Government, which funded the project through the Department of Energy, all agree: this could be the future of agriculture. �Culture in all its early uses was a noun of process,� Raymond Williams says in Keywords . It described �the tending of something, basically crops or animals...