Diversifying Description: Sweet Potato Science and International Agricultural Research after the Green Revolution [0.03%]
甜potato科学与国际农业研究:绿色革命之后的多样化描述
Helen Anne Curry
Helen Anne Curry
The organization of sweet potato research across global regions began in earnest in the 1980s. Leading international institutions, notably CGIAR (Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research) recognized the potential for scienc...
Making Green Revolutions: Kansas Farms, Recovery, and the New Agriculture, 1918-1981 [0.03%]
再造绿色革命:堪萨斯州农场、复苏与新兴农业(1918-1981)
Kenneth M Sylvester,Paul W Rhode
Kenneth M Sylvester
The literature on the Dust Bowl conveys the impression of widespread exodus from the Great Plains. But farm populations were often more resilient than the iconic photographs of the era suggest. While recent studies highlight that tenacity, ...
"It was a Long Way from Perfect, but it was Working": The Canning and Home Production Initiatives in Greene County, Georgia, 1940-1942 [0.03%]
“虽不完美,但已奏效”——佐治亚州格林县的坎宁和家庭生产计划(1940—1942)
Clifford M Kuhn
Clifford M Kuhn
During the early 1940s Greene County, Georgia's, Unified Farm Program, a model undertaking coordinating the efforts of federal, state, and local agencies, attracted national attention, largely through the work of sociologist Arthur Raper. A...
The Role of Blacks in Establishing Cattle Ranching in Louisiana in the Eighteenth Century [0.03%]
18世纪黑人在路易斯安那建立畜牧业中的作用
Andrew Sluyter
Andrew Sluyter
A longstanding assumption posits that white ranchers from the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue, now Haiti, provided the knowledge to establish the first cattle ranches in Louisiana in the mid-eighteenth century, that blacks merely ...
Dubious Heritage: Tobacco, History, and the Perils of Remembering the Rural Past [0.03%]
存疑的遗产:烟草、历史与记忆乡村过去的危险
Evan P Bennett
Evan P Bennett
In 1994 the Virginia legislature created a vehicle license plate to memorialize the state's long history of tobacco agriculture. Other states have likewise created plates to allow drivers to voice support for farmers. Like Virginia's "Tobac...
The Journal of James Wilson: An Insight into Life in North East Scotland Toward the End of the Nineteenth Century [0.03%]
詹姆斯·威尔逊日记——19世纪末苏格兰北部地区社会生活一瞥
Peter Hillis
Peter Hillis
In the nineteenth century many farmers kept a diary of the farming year to record such features as the weather, crop yields, animal husbandry, and prices. Research into church and people in the parishes of Fordyce and Portsoy in North East ...
Supply and Demand: The Mutual Dependency of Children's Institutions and The American Farmer [0.03%]
供求关系:儿童机构与美国农民的相互依赖性
Megan Birk
Megan Birk
The family farm played an important role in the development of a welfare system for dependent children in the United States. This became increasingly true in the second half of the nineteenth century as the population of institutionalized c...
"Selling" the Farm: New Frontier Conservation and the USDA Farm Recreation Policies of the 1960s [0.03%]
"出售"农场:20世纪60年代美国联邦农业部的新边疆自然保护与农场休闲政策
Laura R Kolar
Laura R Kolar
In May 1962 leaders from a variety of federal agencies and independent organizations gathered to "exchange ideas about the future course of American conservation policy." Central to the agenda discussed were certain Kennedy administration a...
Laboratory versus Farm: The Triumph of Laboratory Science in Belgian Agriculture at the End of the Nineteenth Century [0.03%]
实验室 vs 农场:19 世纪末比利时农业中实验室科学的胜利
Lyvia Diser
Lyvia Diser
During the 1870s Belgium followed the path of other European countries and created its first public agricultural laboratories under the direction of Arthur Petermann, a young German agricultural scientist. Petermann had been trained in the ...
The Wichita Valley irrigation project: Joseph Kemp, boosterism, and conservation in northwest Texas, 1886-1939 [0.03%]
德克萨斯州威奇托福尔斯灌溉工程:约瑟夫·坎普、地方主义与西北德州的水利开发(1886-1939)
Jahue Anderson
Jahue Anderson
This is the story of failure: in this case, an irrigation project that never met its boosters' expectations. Between 1880 and 1930, Wichita Falls entrepreneur Joseph Kemp dreamed of an agrarian Eden on the Texas rolling plains. Kemp promote...