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Saving, sharing and sha** landrace seeds in commons: unravelling seed commoning norms for furthering agrobiodiversity
One of the major challenges facing agricultural and food systems today is the loss of agrobiodiversity. Considering the current impasse of preventing...
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Making sense of farmland biodiversity management: an evaluation of a farmland biodiversity management communication strategy with farmers
Biodiversity is a valuable resource that supports sustainability within agricultural systems, yet in contradiction to this agriculture is recognised...
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Regulations Matter: Epistemic Monopoly, Domination, Patents, and the Public Interest
This paper argues that regulatory agencies have a responsibility to further the public interest when they determine the conditions under which new...
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Biological Purposes Beyond Natural Selection: Self-Regulation as a Source of Teleology1
Selected-effects theories provide the most popular account of biological teleology. According to these theories, the purpose of a trait is to do...
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Philosophy, Not-Philosophy, Non-Philosophy: Dōgen’s Religio-Philosophical Zen
Beginning with the assumption that the normative conception of Zen that Dōgen expounded and practiced constitutes at its heart a...
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Replacing humans with machines: a historical look at technology politics in California agriculture
Media outlets, industry researchers, and policy-makers are today busily extolling new robotic advances that promise to transform agriculture,...
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Relationships of regeneration in Great Plains commodity agriculture
In recent years regenerative agriculture has attracted growing attention as a means to improve soil health and farmer livelihoods while slowing...
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Acting Like an Algorithm: Digital Farming Platforms and The Trajectories They (Need Not) Lock-in
This paper contributes to our understanding of farm data value chains with assistance from 54 semi-structured interviews and field notes from...
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Art as Intervention into the Politics of Life
Humans in the biotech era foster biotechnological research and engineering with ambitions to gain control over bodies and enhance them, to gain...
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Assembling agroecological socio-natures: a political ecology analysis of urban and peri-urban agriculture in Rosario, Argentina
Rosario, Argentina, a city of more than one million people strategically located on the Paraná River in the heart of a fertile agricultural region,...
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Automating Agroecology: How to Design a Farming Robot Without a Monocultural Mindset?
Robots are widely expected—and pushed—to transform open-field agriculture, but these visions remain wedded to optimizing monocultural farming...
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Regenerative agriculture and a more-than-human ethic of care: a relational approach to understanding transformation
A growing body of literature argues that achieving radical change in the agri-food system requires a radical renegotiation of our relationship with...
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Anchoring: What’s Going on Down There?
Anchoring is a combination of faith and physics, delight and doubt. Its pleasures and pains are as intertwined as the strands of a hemp rope.
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Loss of seasonal ranges reshapes transhumant adaptive capacity: Thirty-five years at the US Sheep Experiment Station
Transhumance is a form of extensive livestock production that involves seasonal movements among ecological zones or landscape types. Rangeland-based...
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Vegetal Pedagogy
This chapter considers the possibility of a radical vegetal pedagogy, understood in terms of a learning from plants. After outlining the fundamental...
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Agroecology from the ground up: a critical analysis of sustainable soil management in the highlands of Guatemala
A persistent problem in the dominant agricultural development model is the imposition of technologies without regard to local processes and cultures....
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Weigel, Valentin
Valentin Weigel was a dissenting Lutheran pastor, whose work incorporates various medieval and Renaissance influences in an attempt to justify the...
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Thinking the Now: Binary and Holistic Concepts in Dōgen’s Philosophy of Time
The chapter contributes to the debate on Dōgen’s theory of time by discussing key concepts of the Shōbōgenzō’s “Uji” fascicle in a broader context,...