Globalizing Farm Land
An interesting side effect of the “food crisis” (I’m still not sure I like that name) is that the hunt is on for agricultural land outside the nation state. The…
Read moreWhat Was That About Chinese Lactose Intolerance?
The Chinese Mengniu Dairy in Inner Mongolia is about to become one of the largest dairy farms in the world. It’s been in operation since 1999, trades on the Hong…
Read moreBooks that shed light. Richards, The Unending Frontier
For the past several weeks I’ve been perusing John F. Richards’ The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World (California, 2005). There’s a lot of it to…
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