Men’s Labor (Farming) vs Women’s Labor (Cooking): Tortillas
Note. If you’ve been to this page before, I’ve now (pm 5 december) edited the figures. Many thanks Larry. I’ve just been reading E.A. Wrigley‘s Energy and the English…
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Wikipedia has a short, clear article on agribusiness. It contrasts two meanings. 1) Within the agriculture industry, agribusiness is widely used simply as a convenient portmanteau of agriculture and business, referring…
Read moreIslamic Agronomy in Mexico
Jeremy Cherfas over at Agrobiodiversity mentioned that I thought there were traces of the agricultural techniques of Medieval Islam in Mexico (and presumably the rest of Latin America). I don’t…
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