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On crop diversity and agricultural crisis

Feb 1 2022
This narrative of inevitable changover in agricultural production, changeover in seed that had to happen as part of a modernization process - that story really needed an integration of the farmers in those places, to really be thinking of what it would mean for farmers to be changing over to a new style of production, maybe marginalized from communities they're been a part of before, as a result of losing land or other experiences.

Historian Helen Anne Curry on her book Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction from University of California Press.

 

Guest

Helen Anne Curry

Helen Anne Curry is an associate professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, and a fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge.

helenannecurry.com

 

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