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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 518–540.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Jacob Darwin Hamblin Abstract This article explores atomic agriculture through the lens of political shelter, focusing on examples from the United States, the Soviet Union, and the International Atomic Energy Agency. Enthusiasm for atomic energy techniques, especially in the 1950s and early 1960s...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 572–606.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Francesco Cassata Abstract Established in 1960 near Rome and supported by the US Atomic Energy Commission and the International Atomic Energy Agency, the Casaccia Center for Nuclear Studies played a fundamental role in transforming what became known as “mutation breeding” from an uncertain set...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 642–673.
Published: 01 November 2024
... in the United States. 1 Some recent scholarship has critically considered the promotional role of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and analyzed other national experiences, highlighting the profound interconnections between the two areas. 2 At the same time, the broader literature...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 513–517.
Published: 01 November 2024
..., the application of nuclear science to food and agriculture has received relatively little scholarly attention. Between 2009 and 2014, Jacob Darwin Hamblin authored several seminal articles on “atomic agriculture” at the International Atomic Energy Agency, particularly focusing on criticism from botanist Ronald...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 674–701.
Published: 01 November 2024
... the skepticism around techniques like mutation breeding within the US plant breeding community, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) “nurtured” the scientific field of atomic agriculture, expanded its institutional base, and guarded its turf against other UN agencies claiming exclusive ownership...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 541–571.
Published: 01 November 2024
... for mutation breeding has waned, but the SIT continues to be used worldwide and is promoted by the Joint Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)/International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Centre of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture. Okinawa. 1972. Bitter melon. Each reveals a complicated web...
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (3): 368–387.
Published: 01 July 2014
... results results that might be hard to deliver so quickly.33 After Eisenhower s term, significant research into the applications of atomic energy in agriculture continued, particularly by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). In many...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 607–641.
Published: 01 November 2024
... SMT project in which Mexico was engaged. In 1976, an outbreak of Mediterranean fruit flies in Chiapas triggered a major multilateral project involving the USDA, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and Guatemala, in which Mexico took and continues to take a leading role, pushed by a powerful...
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (4): 461–490.
Published: 01 October 2018
... of the sum total of energy on the planet—all energy comes from one of three sources: the sun, the Earth’s core (geothermal energy), or atomic energy (such as splitting or fusing atoms in a nuclear reaction). Energy from the sun makes up an overwhelming majority of the energy on the planet. 12. Much...
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (4): 415–435.
Published: 01 October 2006
...," Wallace’s Farmer , Oct. 20 , 1956 , 30 -31. 42 Thomas C.
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and Wayne E. Swegle, "A Successful Farming Report on Atomic Energy in Agriculture," Successful Farming 57 ( July 1959 ): 44 -45, 90; "Atoms in the Garden," Newsweek 58 ( Mar. 6 , 1961 ): 88 . 43 Fleming...
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (1): 102–138.
Published: 01 January 2019
... Phosphate Ore Processing—The Thermal Process Plant (Nov. 1977), 2. 3. International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, IARC Monographs Volume 112: Evaluation of Five Organophosphate Insecticides and Herbicides , Mar. 20, 2015, http://www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/iarcnews/pdf...
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (1): 55–77.
Published: 01 January 2012
... ( New York : CAB International Publishing , 2000 ), 91 – 101 ; Sutter , Driven Wild , 256 ; Federal Inter-Agency Committee on Recreation , “Report,” 1947 , pp. 1 , 4 , Box 1, Records of the Federal Inter-Agency Committee on Recreation Subject File, Records of the Heritage Conservation...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (3): 349–375.
Published: 01 August 2024
... surrounding the “energy crisis” of the early 1970s, see Huber, Lifeblood , 116–20 . 100. International Economic Report of the President , 22–23 . See also Rothschild, “Politics of Food.” 101. Statement of Norman Borlaug on June 14, 1974, in Famine and the World Situation , 28–29 . See...
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (1): 4–34.
Published: 01 January 2019
... and Environmental History.” 19. Sterling Evans, “The International Context for Rural America,” in The Routledge History of Rural America , ed. Pamela Riney-Kehrberg (New York: Routledge, 2016), 332. 20. For excellent analysis on commodities and globalization, see Kenneth Pomeranz and Steven Topik...
