all posts What can be learned from the plants represented in museum collections? Plants are represented in art either with a symbolic purpose within a narrative or simply as a decorative element. A considerable degree of subjectivity is acceptable since artists can...
all posts The everyday challenges of Portuguese semi-industrial confectionery In 2005 Rita João, Pedro Ferreira and I began researching the design of semi-industrial Portuguese confectionery, a term we coined to characterise the kind of one-portion, sweet pastries and...
all posts Epic narratives of the Green Revolution: perspectives from Brazil, China and India The Green Revolution (GR) is often portrayed as the advent of scientific and technological modernity in agriculture, which helped countries to avert famines and revert food...
all posts Plants, dunes and people: coasts as entangled environments In May, ReSEED project published a tweet about a conference on seeds and travelling plants. The tweet said and I quote: “European navigators didn´t travel empty-handed. They took & brought back...
all posts “Plantations are back”: palm oil in São Tomé Driving south through São Tomé’s national road n. 2 we are welcomed by “the flourishing palm groves of Agripalma”. Oil palms reign supreme over that territory, creating a green pattern of staggering geometric...
all posts The revival of taxonomy: the importance of historical data and multidisciplinary approaches Taxonomy is the science entrusted to understand, document, and describe biodiversity. In the last few years, taxonomy started receiving renewed attention by the...
