#Agriculture

Clay Masters

Clay_Masters

The @IowaPublicRadio newsroom this week featured a series explaining the history behind systemic racism in Iowa and how racist policies, practices and attitudes of the past and present continue to

Anurag Shukla

Anuraag_Shukla

This paper, drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, examines how a wealthy class of farmers that is increasingly involved in urban business uses a combination of party connections, cash, & coercion to

Charlie Stross

cstross

The spinning wheel was a very late arrival (circa 1000AD) and shares basics with the barrow (wheel on a frame). Better: the spinning jenny (a multiwheel variant spinning 8 or

Robert Peston

Peston

The question for @BorisJohnson is why he signed a Withdrawal Agreement that gives the EU the power to decide whether GB agricultural products are fit for export to Northern Ireland.

Atif Mian

AtifRMian

One broad misconception about growth or development is that growth *requires* capitalThat is not accurate: to first approximation, growth *creates* capitalsome explanation ... The most important ingredient, or requirement, for

ChristopheB.

agritof80

Préambulel’@Inra_France a participé à ce rapport,Il cherche à répondre à 3 objectifs :- nourrir 10 milliards d’humains en 2050 ;- ne pas cultiver plus de surfaces ;- réduire les GES

Lincoln Turner

lincolnturner

How the uni cuts will hurt almost every discipline: a plot.Data credit: @dangolding and @garethjbryant. Most coverage has focused on the massive fee increases for humanities. Student fee increases are

Vance Crowe

VanceCrowe

Find someone undervalued and ask them to teach you something.1/7 I have found that many of the people that are unpopular get that way because they are low in the

āṅgīrasaśreṣṭha

GhorAngirasa

This is fair; the acquisition of religious scholarship is indeed useless for those whose livelihood depends on agriculture, trade, etc. However, see also this example of a सच्छूद्र-शैव-महाविद्वान्

Jenny Ryan

jenlion

Every day is a schoolday! In honour of LGBT History Month, I'm going to read up about a significant person in LGBT+ history, and post about them on this thread.

Majorityville 🙄

majorityville

[THREAD]1) Niti Aayog...Adani Group...Farm Laws 2020. Chronology of events - based on facts/news reports (draw your own conclusions - all I've done is curated facts/news - relevant to the topic

Brynne Keith-Jennings

BrynneKJ

Thread: The nutrition provisions in the bill the House Education and Labor Committee is considering today as part of the #COVIDRelief package would help Americans struggling to afford enough food.

MIT Technology Review

techreview

“Ag tech” startups are looking to transform humans’ role in one of the oldest occupations on the planet. After at least 15 years of promises, these startups may finally be

Philip Loring

ConserveChange

Since the start of the pandemic, the incomparable @StatCan_eng emeritus Ray Bollman has been tracking the impacts on employment in rural and urban areas. I thought now might be a

JDog Pitler

ZBcasghamber

Holodomor 2.0 in the making:In 2012, feds arrested a farmer for removing government surveillance cameras that were placed by on his property. This was done under the direction of Tom

Gabi *Snow* Fleury (Yibambe!) 🏳️‍🌈 🇧🇷 🇦🇴 🐆

fleurygs

Re: unpaid jobs in conservation.Do I think that unpaid /pay-to-pay jobs in conservation are gatekeeping? Absolutely.Do I recognize some projects can't support interns etc? Yes, I do.The problem isn't the

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