Food & Agriculture

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Women from Jericho's Palestinian refugee camp going to fetch water, 1961.
An Environmental “Nakba”: Water, Trees, and Farms as Tools of Israeli Policy Toward Palestine
Women working at a farm at Lamas district in Peru, 2014. (Photo by CIF Action)
Reforming Peruvian Agriculture, Again
SpaghettiOs in background, tv dinner, Tang bottle, Spam tin and Jello mold in foreground
SpaghettiOs and the Age of Processed Foods
Plate of enchiladas at a Mexican restaurant.
Mexican Food in the United States
In Mauritania, Aissata Abdoul Diop shows how the maize ears have dried in the drought stricken garden, 2012. 
Hunger Is Not Eradicated: The Food Crisis in Africa
ship on waterway that is polluted with oil spill
Water Crisis on the Blue Planet: What Water’s Past tells us about Humanity’s Future
advertisement with bi-plane dusting over a field and two farmers talking about it
Remembering Rachel Carson’s "Silent Spring"
Advertisement for DDT featured in Time Magazine, June 30, 1947. This image illustrates the rosy reputation that pesticides enjoyed before the publication of Silent Spring.
A World Drenched with Pesticides: Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
a man harvesting wheat - Lviv, Ukraine 1991 Wheat Harvest on Collective Farm 1991 by Manhhai, Flickr, cc-by 2.0
Ukraine: The Breadbasket of Europe
A wheat field in Ukraine resembles the colors on the country's flag.
Ukraine: The Breadbasket of Europe
seedlings
Seed Money: Monsanto's Past and Our Food Future
Globe on a plate with knife and fork next to it
Diet for a Large Planet
Khrushchev during his visit to the Agricultural Research Service Center in Maryland.
Khrushchev’s Great American Road Trip
Chinese laborers work a sugar plantation in 19th century Hawaii.
A Sweet Beginning: the U.S. Sugar Monopoly
A Hawaiian man employing the spearfishing techniques described by Fagan, circa 1890.
Built Upon Bounty
Red and yellow test tubes on cover of Health Technology and Science ibook
Health, Technology and Science: Today & Yesterday
A woman on the outskirts of Kyiv carrying a bucket of apricots
Eating at You: Food and Chernobyl
A traditional glass of Weissbier
Keeping Beer “Pure”: The 1516 Reinheitsgebot
Top view of person serving themself a rice dish from a table of food
Food for Thought: Diet in History
This painting by Jean-Baptiste de Saive (1562) portrays the environment of the kitchen as a place of making. As Wall argues, the kitchen was one of the main spaces for women to create and experiment.
Kitchen Wisdom
a can of Spaghetti-Os
Spaghetti in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Insects on white flowers
4/22/14: An Earth Day Round Up
The New York Times Article, "The 'Boys' in the Bunkhouse" Cover Photo
3/11/14: History through People, "The 'Boys' in the Bunkhouse"
The flag of Ethiopia under the rule of the Derg, 1975-1987
Blind Aid: Lessons (Not Learned) from the Ethiopian Famine