Loved the global rice Swiss National Science Foundation project launch @uzh_en by my fabulous colleague Yi-Tang Lin @[email protected]!🙏 With Francesca Bray, Esther & Paul Richards, Dominic Glover, Harro Maat, Aya Homei, @AZimmHistory, Debjani, Scott Ma (@scma.bsky.social), William Lyon, Martin Dusinberre & Elena D‘Amato #Asia #Pacific #Africa

The role of crop diversity in escape agriculture; rice cultivation among Maroon communities in Suriname Maat et al. 📖ow.ly/gYrs50PJpQE Wiley Plant Science Wiley Food Science

We're analysing the historically grown social and political dimensions of rice farming by Surinamese Maroons. They created counter-plantation agriculture. And it has lessons for the future!

Is #ClimateChange pushing #rice production up north? If so, we can learn from #organic forms of cultivation as practiced by #Biodistretto and scholars studying rice from #HistSTM #Anthro and other fields. This was an exciting event!

Great paper! This is what you get when supply-side actors introduce solutions without a clue about demand-side actors' problems.

From Mysore to Cambridge and back: The education of a groundnut breeder Tad Brown 📖ow.ly/aiK850QhnBQ @Wileyplantsci

Decolonizing the history of plant breeding. We need to know more about how science relied on people like V.K. Badami put in the spotlight in this great paper by Tad Brown. @HPSCultivation

👇 people working on decolonizing science institutions with links to Dutch universities, take note👇🏾

Ik ben niet echt een actievoerder en dit doe ik eigenlijk nooit, maar de naar binnengerichtheid van de politiek in ons land baart me grote zorgen. Gebrek aan internationale oriëntatie gaat uiteindelijk ten koste van ons zelf.

How rice hidden by a woman fleeing slavery in the 1700s could help her descendants | Suriname | The Guardian - go.shr.lc/3SgOZe0

I am excited to announce two new fully funded PhD positions in the Digitizing Other Economies project #ERCStG #Anthropology #DigitalEconomy #India #Kyrgyz India: wur.nl/en/vacancy/phd… Kyrgyz Republic: wur.nl/en/vacancy/phd…

CFP: *Genome Editing and the Future of Food in Africa* Our special issue of Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene is seeking additional contributions that examine the complex ecosystems in which genome editing, agriculture, & plant breeding are embedded. Please share! docs.google.com/document/d/1RH…

Working at a university with a, for many foreigners, unpronounceable name, I'm very happy we now have an alternative: Wayning University

A gold and two bronzes in marathon and then 5,000 and 10,000 metres on the back of two golds and a bronze in Tokyo. Is Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands the greatest track and field athlete of our times? Ethiopian born who runs for Netherlands, she has broken every record, every

The latest issue of Capitalism: A Journal of History and Economics is OUT! FREE ACCESS FOR ONE MONTH!!! Please RT to help us expand access!!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻Jonathan Donald Jenner Helen Tilley Tim Barker Chris Hughes marc flandreau CN Biltoft Penn Press muse.jhu.edu/issue/53014

Offically out now, our paper on Maroon farming and crop diversity as social-political tools. 📢 Read all papers in this great Special Issue, featuring ao @hacurry @RyanNehring Nick Fradgley Alison Bentley Stuart McCook Michele Sollai Marianna Fenzi @daniela_sclavo

📢 Onderwijs en onderzoek zijn cruciaal om de grote vraagstukken van onze tijd aan te pakken! Toch bezuinigt het kabinet-Schoof €1 miljard op hoger onderwijs en wetenschap. Wij komen in actie tegen deze bezuinigingen! Teken jij ook de petitie? campagnes.degoedezaak.org/campaigns/stop…

Out at long last! Check out our volume about agricultural science and development, beyond the Green Revolution towards global markets. And all opem access: cambridge.org/core/books/agr…

Wow - Outgoing AGRA pres. Agnes Kalibata says the Green Revolution "ship has sailed": “Part of why we rebranded was that the Green Revolution ship has sailed. We can’t continue pursuing what’s not working for others.” devex.com/news/beyond-th…