History of Technology and STS scholar, interested in colonialism, smallholder farming, food and health
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Harro Maat retweeted
Wow - Outgoing AGRA pres. Agnes Kalibata says the Green Revolution "ship has sailed":
“Part of why we rebranded was that the Green Revolution ship has sailed. We can’t continue pursuing what’s not working for others.”
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📢 Onderwijs en onderzoek zijn cruciaal om de grote vraagstukken van onze tijd aan te pakken! Toch bezuinigt het kabinet-Schoof €1 miljard op hoger onderwijs en wetenschap. Wij komen in actie tegen deze bezuinigingen! Teken jij ook de petitie? campagnes.degoedezaak.org/ca…
Offically out now, our paper on Maroon farming and crop diversity as social-political tools.
📢 Read all papers in this great Special Issue, featuring ao @hacurry @RyanNehring @nickfradgley @AlisonRBentley @stuartmccook @SollaiMichele @FenziMarianna @daniela_sclavo
The role of crop diversity in escape #agriculture; #rice cultivation among Maroon communities in Suriname
@MtHarro, Nicholaas Pinas, Tinde van Andel
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Societal Impact Statement also available in 🇳🇱
#SpecialIssue #FutureFood
Harro Maat retweeted
The latest issue of Capitalism: A Journal of History and Economics is OUT! FREE ACCESS FOR ONE MONTH!!! Please RT to help us expand access!!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻@jonathandjenner @HelenTilley15 @_TimBarker @chrishughes @flandreaumarc @BiltoftCN @PennPress
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A gold and two bronzes in marathon and then 5,000 and 10,000 metres on the back of two golds and a bronze in Tokyo. Is Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands the greatest track and field athlete of our times? Ethiopian born who runs for Netherlands, she has broken every record, every stereotype. Don’t think since the great Emil Zatopek anyone has come close to three podium finishes in distance running and then to do it in two consecutive Olympics is simply WOW!⭐️ Salute Sifan and Netherlands, a country whose sporting fortunes have risen as a multi cultural society. Great Sporting nations are built on diversity! 🇳🇱 👍#OlympicGames
Working at a university with a, for many foreigners, unpronounceable name, I'm very happy we now have an alternative: Wayning University
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Harro Maat retweeted
CFP: *Genome Editing and the Future of Food in Africa*
Our special issue of @elementascience is seeking additional contributions that examine the complex ecosystems in which genome editing, agriculture, & plant breeding are embedded.
Please share!
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Harro Maat retweeted
I am excited to announce two new fully funded PhD positions in the Digitizing Other Economies project #ERCStG #Anthropology #DigitalEconomy #India #Kyrgyz
India: wur.nl/en/vacancy/phd-in-erc…
Kyrgyz Republic: wur.nl/en/vacancy/phd-in-erc…
Harro Maat retweeted
How rice hidden by a woman fleeing slavery in the 1700s could help her descendants | Suriname | The Guardian - go.shr.lc/3SgOZe0
Harro Maat retweeted
Ik ben niet echt een actievoerder en dit doe ik eigenlijk nooit, maar de naar binnengerichtheid van de politiek in ons land baart me grote zorgen. Gebrek aan internationale oriëntatie gaat uiteindelijk ten koste van ons zelf.
Dringende oproep van oud-bevelhebbers, -ministers en hoogleraren om in het belang van NL te blijven investeren in internationale samenwerking en een betrouwbare partner te blijven @MiddendorpTom @KeesMatthijssen @beatricedegraaf @robdewijk @LuukvMiddelaar volkskrant.nl/columns-opinie…
Harro Maat retweeted
Nearly ONE HUNDRED PROFESSORS killed--not one word from Western universities. One hundred professors.
We condemn with all our force Israel's killing of at least 94 Palestinian academics in Gaza. We mourn every one of our colleagues.
We find it unconscionable that virtually no western university has said a single word.
ALT Screenshot of the quoted tweet, showing the English translation: 'We documented the killing by the Israeli occupation forces of 94 Palestinian university professors hundreds of teachers, and thousands of students as part of the comprehensive crime of genocide that it has waged against the Gaza Strip since last October 7.'
👇 people working on decolonizing science institutions with links to Dutch universities, take note👇🏾
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Decolonizing the history of plant breeding. We need to know more about how science relied on people like V.K. Badami put in the spotlight in this great paper by Tad Brown. @HPSCultivation
From Mysore to Cambridge and back: The education of a groundnut breeder
Tad Brown
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@Wileyplantsci
ALT Comparative sample of groundnut varieties at a government farm in Central Provinces, India.
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From Mysore to Cambridge and back: The education of a groundnut breeder
Tad Brown
📖ow.ly/aiK850QhnBQ
@Wileyplantsci
ALT Comparative sample of groundnut varieties at a government farm in Central Provinces, India.
Great paper! This is what you get when supply-side actors introduce solutions without a clue about demand-side actors' problems.
Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) are hailed as a way to bring private biotech IPR to public researchers in Africa to create GM & gene-edited crops for poor farmers. Our latest pub leverages a new data set to assess their extent & performance #GMO 👇doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10453 🧵 1/
Is #ClimateChange pushing #rice production up north? If so, we can learn from #organic forms of cultivation as practiced by #Biodistretto and scholars studying rice from #HistSTM #Anthro and other fields. This was an exciting event!
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We're analysing the historically grown social and political dimensions of rice farming by Surinamese Maroons. They created counter-plantation agriculture. And it has lessons for the future!
The role of crop diversity in escape agriculture; rice cultivation among Maroon communities in Suriname
Maat et al.
📖ow.ly/gYrs50PJpQE
@wileyplantsci @wileyfoodsci
Harro Maat retweeted
The role of crop diversity in escape agriculture; rice cultivation among Maroon communities in Suriname
Maat et al.
📖ow.ly/gYrs50PJpQE
@wileyplantsci @wileyfoodsci
Indeed! A new paper from our project on Maroon rice in Suriname, putting the spotlight on the women-centred cultural repertoire that includes the expertise to preserve seeds and rice-related histories of revolt and escape.
New article in Slavery & Abolition online and @RoutledgeHist:
Maroon Women in Suriname and French Guiana: Rice, Slavery, Memory
Authors: Tinde van Andel et al
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
