... to manage the volatility of industrial agriculture (from monocultures, perpetual genetic erosion, cropping intensification, and so on). The movement of agroexport farms into arid regions has been part of these processes of biosecuritization. This analysis of the socioecological conditions of expanded...

... and the idioms of colonial and nationalist economics, India's bureaucrats and politicians contrasted the nation's “progressive farmers” with the passivity and superstition alleged to be characteristic of the majority of peasants, establishing crop competitions and the title of Krishi Pandit —“master farmer...

... of the Sahyadri range of hills. It has only moderate rainfall, but the rain is well distributed over the year and allows for reliable, rainfed agricultural cultivation of diverse crops. For a case study that refers to the attrition of in-kind payments in two villages in Maharashtra, one of which is Sugao, see...

...-marginal lands which extensions of the plains and thereby overlooks speciEic have further jeopardized crop productivity. Inaccessibil- constraints and needs that distinguish mountain ity to natural resources, both due to privatization of environments from other ecological zones. Articulation...

... of The ancestral owner rented out all the family remains dominant in the land to tenant farmers in return for a village. They are able to provide more fixed portion of their crops. He himself protection and patronage, and hence retain lived in Isa Khel, a pattern...

.... In 1905 he convinced the king of Italy to back the creation of an international organization in which governments could exchange information about new forms of and approaches to agricultural practice and technological innovation. Among the proposed topics for exchange and discussion were the flow of crop...

...:4 interaction between ecology, the level of technology and the (Duby, 1968:99-102). In India on the other hand all the social organization of labor utilization. The paper will per- cultivated land yielded two crops a year at the theoretical force overlook many facets of regional...

.... . . . These pages take a look at the harvest of the new crop, and the farmers who watch over it, to make mixed bread that fills our empty stomachs. 3 State wholesal- ers set a standard size, weight, and price (five millemes, one half piaster) for all bread everywhere based on a mixture of available stocks...

... . “ Wildlife Media and Representations of Africa, 1950s to the 1970s .” Environmental History 14 , no. 3 ( 2009 ): 429 – 52 . Bindernagel John A. Game Cropping in Uganda: A Report on an Experimental Project to Utilize Populations of Wild Animals for Meat Production in Uganda, East Africa...

..., the Caribbean colonies pro- defines the world system. Earlier work done on Jamaica duced export crops for the world with woeful conse- and the Windward Islands suggests that their similari- quences for their national needs and diets. According to ties (in this context) far outweigh...

... as an approach to in- should be useful in Kerala irrespective of its specific crease the productivity of crops like wheat and climatic and ecological characteristics. paddy through the use of High Yielding Varieties of International literature on the agricultural science seeds (Hvvs), chemical fertilizers...

... of the cultivator, he recommended nineteenth century Indian economic history. the introduction of a permanent settlement. Furthermore, he To establish her case, McAlpin draws upon aggregate suggested that land revenue should not exceed 50 percent of statistical data on rainfall, crop...

..., set up by men like Visram, along with section of the population, but also more independent "dukkan-wallahs" were already importantly, with the nature of the eco- prepared to purchase the first crop and nomic role played by Asians. In addition transport...

... but it fluctuated greatly from year to year. Most of it fell during the period from roughly June to September. The main food crops were jawar, bajra, rice, wheat and pulses. The major cash crops were peanut, castor, linseed, sesamum, tobacco and sugarcane. Double-cropping was commonly practiced, the crop...

.... , 1978 , Punjab's Economy: Growth and Prospects , Unpublished Ph. D. Dissertation, Dept. of Economics, Punjab University. Cliffton , W.R. , 1972 , “The Green Revolution: Cornucopia or Pandora's Box?”, Foreign Affairs , 47 : 3 , April. Das , R.A. , and N.B. Tyagi, 1971 , Crop Responses...

... to be greater for ants (Karnataka). In most other areas, smallholders - agriculturally developed rural areas. Villages with poor faced with the reduced access to supplementary irrigation and low cropping intensity often experience landlease - either leased out to large farmers with bet- labor outflows...

... 19 -- such as wheat. By the turn of the particularly suited to the needs of a cheap century however, intensive crops, which labor force for they were typically young provide a higher profit margin, but also males who could not afford not to work and demand irrigation...

... crops to eat, fodder for their animals, firewood to burn, water to wash With an introduction by Gail Omvedt. with and drink as well a8 to irrigate their fields. Vanishing forest8 and drying up rivers...

..., as Turkish crop seed collections gain importance in the context of climate change and global food security. The seizure of the British seed collection in the summer of 2020 was a powerful gesture that drew attention to the link between national biowealth and sovereignty in Turkish politics. Yet...

..., saplings, and crop species and manage the unpredictable effects of weather and plants shape perceptions and modes of practice; and (3) ornamentation, or how the spatial design of the garden (and its role as an ornament for the city) emerges through the interactions with unruly soils, water, and vegetation...