all posts Improve iodine and other human micronutrient content in crops The World is facing drastic, rapid, and unpredictable challenges. To set an example, in just the past few years we have faced a global pandemic, worsening climate conditions, an energetic...
all posts Modelling agricultural land changes: mobilise historical sources to gather past knowledge with geographic evidence The agricultural land changes we observe today are the direct result of a combination of social, economic, and environmental factors, varying...
all posts Between dryland and irrigation in Alentejo: agriculture and population development in the long term Located in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula, the Alentejo is the largest of the Portuguese regions with more than 28 thousand square kilometres...
all posts Forgotten practices, techniques, and crops: recovery of agricultural memory in Galiza in the late 20th century The Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Agrarias, better known by its acronym in Spanish (INIA), was and still is the main agricultural research...
all posts Pulling the wool over our own eyes: agrarian historians, seed improvement, yields and productivity Interest in old varieties of seeds, especially cereals, has grown in recent years for two main reasons. First is the risk to the genetic diversity that...
all posts Pottery production as a significant part of the sugar production cycle One can hardly trace a portrait of Portuguese economic history without considering the relevance of sugar’s production and trade since the late Middle Ages and during the Early Modern...
