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Cuba's Agroecological Revolution: Implications for Widespread Adoption
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2020-January-01
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agriculture
agriculture
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Sustainable Agriculture in Ancient Rome
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2011-January-01
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Sustainable agriculture discourse describes agricultural practices and techniques used to maintain land fertility. At its broadest definition, sustainable agriculture aims to make land hospitable to cultivated crops for an indefinite amount of time. The discourse itself has only arisen in...
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Virgil's Bumpkins: An examination of rural idealization and denigration in Virgil's Georgics and 21st-century American culture
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2021-January-01
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Vergil's Georgics has been known throughout history as a didactic, "how to" guide on farming. However, as scholarship has progressed, the Georgics is now seen less as a guide on farming and more as a "self-insert" farming fantasy for the...
