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Coffee Filter

rgwallace wrote 4 months ago: It’s hard obviously to imagine a house which doesn’t have a door. I saw one one day, several years a … more →

Tags: Ecological resilience, Evolution, Organic Agriculture, Azteca, bats, biodiverity, Birds, Coffee Berry Borer, coffee rust

Two Thumbs Off

farmingpathogens wrote 5 months ago: Contagion (2011) PG-13. 106 minutes. Finally watched Steven Soderbergh’s flick and was pleasan … more →

Tags: Influenza, Ecological resilience, CDC, Steven Soderbergh, contagion, Gwyneth Paltrow, agroeconomic, structural contradictions

The Bug Has Left the Barn

rgwallace wrote 5 months ago: Hildy Johnson: [speaking to Walter on the phone] Did you hear that? That’s the story I just wrote. Y … more →

Tags: Influenza, Ecological resilience, Evolution, h1n1, Cargill, Livestock, vaccine, h3n2, ecosocial

Missed Anthropy2 comments

rgwallace wrote 8 months ago: A brilliant blue jay is springing up and down, up and down, / On a branch. / I laugh, as I see him a … more →

Tags: Ecological resilience, Evolution, Organic Agriculture, revolution, Malthus, climate change, david quammen, Misanthropy, Conservation Agriculture

We Need a Structural One Health

rgwallace wrote 10 months ago: No one ever says to you, “Lie to me.” The enemy says, You will do and believe certain things. It is … more →

Tags: Influenza, Ecological resilience, revolution, Agribusiness, h1n1, neoliberalism, Livestock, Istvan Meszaros, declensionist

Whose Food Footprint?

rgwallace wrote 1 year ago: Inside the network of NGOs and intergovernmental agencies addressing food insecurity, disease, and e … more →

Tags: Influenza, Ecological resilience, Evolution, Organic Agriculture, revolution, Agriculture, Food Security, One Health, capitalism

Inception Deception

rgwallace wrote 1 year ago: In Inception Leonardo DiCaprio plays Christopher Nolan’s postmodern spy-for-hire, extracting r … more →

Tags: Ecological resilience, Organic Agriculture, revolution, Agribusiness, neoliberalism, Colonialism, declensionist, Leonardo DiCaprio, Inception

Make It Your Book!

farmingpathogens wrote 1 year ago: Twenty-nine thousand hits in a little over two years. Not bad for a microblog. But it hasn’t b … more →

Tags: Influenza, Ecological resilience, Evolution, Organic Agriculture, book, Agribusiness, pathogens, Farming Pathogens, RocketHub

Fork in the Road

rgwallace wrote 2 years ago: This is the final installment of the ‘big picture’ on global food crises I co-authored with Richard … more →

Tags: Ecological resilience, Organic Agriculture, Agribusiness, Agro-ecology, Jules Pretty, Integrated Pest Management, Food Security, Livestock Revoluion, Conservation

The Declensionist Diet1 comment

rgwallace wrote 2 years ago: We continue with the ‘big picture’ of food crises I co-authored with Richard Kock and Robyn Alders. … more →

Tags: Influenza, Ecological resilience, Evolution, Agribusiness, Livestock Revolution, pathogens, Agriculture, Antibiotics, Egypt

The Born Identity

rgwallace wrote 2 years ago: With Richard Kock and Robyn Alders I co-authored the following review of food and forest crises. Ric … more →

Tags: Ecological resilience, Evolution, Agriculture, historical present, nomadism, hominins, domestication, landscape, tipping point

Red River1 comment

rgwallace wrote 2 years ago: It is the height of hubris to think we could [destroy the planet]…God is not capricious. He … more →

Tags: Ecological resilience, Agribusiness, climate change, Red River, Paul Douglas, flooding, north atlantic oscillation, snowmelt, Kristin Blann

Alien vs. Predator

rgwallace wrote 2 years ago: Dallas: [looks at a pen being dissolved by alien's body fluid] I haven’t seen anything like th … more →

Tags: Farming Human Pathogens book, Influenza, Ecological resilience, Evolution, Agribusiness, H5N1, Biosecurity, reassortment, NASA

That's the Thicke1 comment

rgwallace wrote 2 years ago: The logistics of a just, equitable and healthy agricultural landscape here in the United States woul … more →

Tags: Ecological resilience, Organic Agriculture, Agribusiness, David Harvey, Richard Levins, Francis Thicke, Zoptec, Jules Pretty, Integrated Pest Management

Virus Dumping

rgwallace wrote 2 years ago: The man come to shake my hand / and rob me of my farm –Ryan Bingham Dumping grain on another c … more →

Tags: Influenza, Ecological resilience, Agribusiness, NAFTA, neoliberalism, Biosecurity, Livestock, grain dumping, Market Manipulation

How Mayor Bloomberg Causes Obesity

rgwallace wrote 2 years ago: Yeah the doctors don’t know, but New York was killing me / Bunch of doctors coming round, they … more →

Tags: Ecological resilience, Organic Agriculture, foreclosure, Michael Bloomberg, obesity, New York City, food stamps, USDA, organic

Influenza's Historical Present

rgwallace wrote 3 years ago: I delivered the following speech, co-written with economic geographer Luke Bergmann, at a NIH-FAO-sp … more →

Tags: Influenza, Ecological resilience, Evolution, H5N1, Louis Althusser, China, Agriculture, historical present, Rice

Breeding Influenza: The Political Virology of Offshore Farming

rgwallace wrote 3 years ago: What better way to medicate against a holiday’s genocidal origins and the hunger now swelling … more →

Tags: Influenza, Evolution, H5N1, h1n1, swine flu, Livestock, Thanksgiving, antipode

I Do Like Green Eggs and Ham

rgwallace wrote 3 years ago: Much of what we’ve addressed on this blog has focused on the epidemiological dangers of indust … more →

Tags: Agribusiness, Burning River, Midwest, CSA, Sustainable Farming


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