Since 2011 the Dickinson College Farm has been used as a living laboratory for student researchers, investigating organisms within an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) system. IPM is a technique used to control pest insects...
This research examines a geographical and historical panorama of Italian agriculture, the history of urban agriculture, the phenomenon of urban green zones from the Middle Ages to present day in the city of Bologna, and four...
The nostalgic mist surrounding farms can make it hard to write their history, encrusting them with stereotypical rural virtues and unrealistically separating them from markets, capitalism, and urban influences. The Nature of...
Maria Bruno is a professor of Anthropology and Archaeology at Dickinson College. , Bruno, Maria C. Practice and History in the Transition to Food Production. Current Anthropology 50, no.5 (2009): 703-706....
India has over the recent decade witnessed a spate of land transfers as Special Economic Zones, extractive industries, or real estate dispossess farmers, land owners, and indigenous groups of their land. As a result, struggles...
Through this thesis, I question what international and national agricultural research organizations gain from working together, and how such international development partnerships shape governance and autonomy among the local...
Sayre, Matthew P., and Maria C. Bruno, eds. Social Perspectives on Ancient Lives From Paleoethnobotanical Data. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2017., Maria Bruno is a professor of Anthropology and Archaeology at Dickinson...
Farmers, regulators, and researchers rely on pesticide use data to assess the effects of pesticides on crop yield, farm economics, off-target organisms, and human health. The publicly available pesticide use data in the United...