Modern agriculture: Still agrarian-based

The Politics of Agriculture: Dramatizing Agrarian Plight in Lope's Fuenteovejuna

In his perceptive work on the interrelationship between history and literature, Louis Montrose advocates a resituation of texts within their contexts, which leads to "a reciprocal concern with the historicity of texts and the textuality of history" (20). For Montrose, aesthetic works can historicize the past and provide an understanding and explanation of times past, but they cannot provide an ...

Multifunctional Agriculture: Agriculture Renewal as a Modern Paradigm for Agriculture and Rural Development

Multifunctional agriculture (MFA) has emerged as a key concept in science and politics with respect to the future of agriculture and rural development in the recent decade. Overall, MFA implies that in addition to their main function in production and support of rural livelihood, the agricultural activities have some other advantages for the environment including the conservation of water and s...

Urban Development & Agrarian Change in Early Modern Europe

Urban Development and Agrarian Change in Early Modern Europe The paper assesses neo-liberal and neo-Marxist theories dealing with agricultural institutions and productivity growth. Both argue that English institutions (enclosures and capitalist agriculture) were particularly conducive to development. Labour and total factor productivity indices are presented for the main European countries, and...

The Benefits of Modern Agriculture

Transforming Modern Agriculture Through Synthetic Genomics

In this talk, I will cover a few topics. First, I will describe some of the cutting-edge science that’s underway and how we are applying it within Synthetic Genomics, not specifically on specialty crops as defined, but on low-acreage or potential crops of the future. Many of these concepts will apply to specialty crops. We can think about progress in synthetic biology, much in the way that chil...