Glenn Davis stone

Special issue: where do skills reside in agriculture? - Institute of Development Studies Where do skills reside? Do they dwell in people, in practices, in technologies? The question might seem abstract, but it helps us to think shrewdly about how changing skills can respond to new challen...

The agriculture industry loves to depict indigenous farmers as slack jawed cretins. But there is a whole world of interesting work on SKILL. Fresh off the press blog www.ids.ac.uk/opinions/spe...

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Our latest paper engages @gdstone.bsky.social's theory of agricultural deskilling. We introduce the theory of ‘agrarian skilling’ to expand and complement Stone's theory of agricultural knowledge production. Open access at this link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @drflachsophone.bsky.social

No kidding... the most famous chart showing the triumph of science in food production actually shows one of agriculture's biggest dumpster fires tinyurl.com/ae2wssj4

Farmers’ Favorite Weedkiller Nears Its End, Bayer Warns The German company cites mounting costs from lawsuits blaming Roundup for causing cancer.

No more Bayer necessities! End of the road for Roundup? tinyurl.com/mwsb6bz8

Mexico forced by trade tribunal to import #GMO corn because the objections are "not based on science." De veras? Two top Mexican scientists (including former director of national science agency) speaking on this
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The One That Got Away: This Small Town Is Left in Limbo After Betting Big on GMO Salmon AquaBounty GMO salmon was going to be the future of fish — and the future for one Ohio village that offered incentives to make a new facility happen. But years after breaking ground, there are no fanc...

Aquabounty #GMO salmon faceplant in an Ohio town tinyurl.com/yes8tuvd

I know a physical anthropologist who just had an NSF proposal on neanderthal thermoregulation flagged for some sort of wokeness. I wish I were joking.

Repeating a myth doesn’t make it true. Green Revolution didn't cause "staggering" food increases tinyurl.com/nhe5b3ey. In India, which was supposedly on the verge of famine, it didn’t increase the food growth rate in India at all.

Breakfast for Eight Billion Fertilization, irrigation, genetics: the three practices that let us feed the whole world for the first time in history

How many historical errors can a neo-Malthusian screed have? tinyurl.com/nhe5b3ey says the Green Revolution spread to cattle & chicken farming. Green Rev started in '67 in India, >3 decades after poultry factory farms started in Delmarva, >1 decade after cattle feedlots spread to absorb excess corn.

Breakfast for Eight Billion Fertilization, irrigation, genetics: the three practices that let us feed the whole world for the first time in history

‪How many historical errors can one neo-Malthusian screed have? tinyurl.com/nhe5b3ey implies the Dutch famine of 1944-45 was an example of persistent European famine. Not the Nazi food blockade? #hunger

Breakfast for Eight Billion Fertilization, irrigation, genetics: the three practices that let us feed the whole world for the first time in history

How many historical errors can a neo-Malthusian screed have? tinyurl.com/nhe5b3ey says Haber & Bosch "completed their work in the run-up to" WW2 so their process wasn't used much until after the war. ??? It produced millions of tons of explosives in WW2; was even used by the Germans in WW1.

New book by Liza Grandia: Guatemalan peasants give Monsanto a rap on the snout.

OK, LMAO. Now for more on Campbell's Soup: did u know that they co-sponsored development of the first #GMO food crop, the FlavrSavr tomato, but then decided not to use it in their own soups, to avoid compromising their brand's image.

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New article: New #digital "agricultural revolution" in #India. tinyurl.com/2ejtufa8 But as you can see, I'm getting to be the buzzkill guy on digital agriculture. (Here's why in case you're interested tinyurl.com/53fzw4ms. It's about #SurveillanceAgriculture)

New blog post: GOOD LUCK WITH THE CORN, RFK YOU A-HOLE
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PHI's Dr. Cohn Featured in ‘Out of Plain Sight’ Documentary on DDT and Health - Public Health Institute Dr. Barbara Cohn, Director and Senior Research Scientist at PHI's Child Health and Development Studies is featured in Out of Plain Sight, a new documentary…

New documentary: Out of Plain Sight featuring the awesome Rosanna Xia (who found out abt the 550k barrels of DDT off California) and the incredible Barbara Cohn (who found out abt DDT's long-term health effects). Gives new meaning to "forever chemicals." tinyurl.com/3kwh49am