all posts OASIS. Agrobiodiversity seedbeds Baja California Sur is a territory colonised by the Jesuits, previously occupied by native peoples. With this colonising process in the desert territory, Misiones-Huertas were designed in which crops brought from Europe were...
all posts Provincializing the Green Revolution According to estimates by the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), only a few Mexican states rely almost completely on commercial seed companies providing hybrid maize. The rest of the area under...
all posts Seed-saving of diversity and autonomy in Portugal The expression “perdi-lhe o inço!” is used in the Algarve (South Portugal) to indicate that the seeds (as well as seedlings or other propagation material) of a certain variety have been lost. In Alto Minho it...
all posts Evolution of soil perception through the work of Gabriel Alonso de Herrera (16th – 19th centuries) In 1513, Gabriel Alonso de Herrera published the Work of Agriculture, considered the first treatise written in Spanish that systematised practical...
all posts Archaeology of wine in Roman Lusitania Phoenician traders from the region of what is now Lebanon probably brought the first wine to the Iberian Peninsula in the 9th-8th century B.C. After this, the first vines appeared in the Phoenician and Greek colonies...
all posts Long-term research and transdisciplinarity: crossing boundaries to better understand the present The ReSEED Project celebrates in November 2021 the third anniversary of a research path taken in a long-term and transdisciplinary perspective. Starting from the...
