#Crops

Perhaps because I like China, my first instinct was to dismiss the hawks for being alarmist. "They're just trying to recreate the Cold War or deflect from our own flaws,"
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#AgriActs wants to "unshackle" farmers from the "clutches" of the mandis. @narendramodi said, “for the first time, small farmers have got an alternative to bargain. The tradition was to sell
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Thoughts on reading @CCriadoPerez’s book, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men—1. This is one of the best books I have ever read! I highly recommend it
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There’s a small academic argument about whether Robt. Malthus’s dire predictions were defeated by science and technology. True, S&T greatly lifted farm productivity, but that’s not the fundamental flaw in
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A thread: Stop being a slave to technology Technology has improved our lives ten fold but also made us slaves to instant gratification...instant food...instant likes...instant tv. This is something the
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It's a little after 6 a.m. and I'm scoping out Disney Plus, which launched a short while ago... We knew going in #DisneyPlus was going to have a deep library
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Haknyeon Appreciation post: a thread pardon me, in this essay I will tweet about the things I love about this man right here. I'm so blessed I get to know
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Hi Twitter, please do your thing. Let us help our farmers in Atok, Benguet. They are not asking for cash, just an exchange for fuel, cooking oil and rice. :(#CoronaLockdown
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THREAD: Truly regenerative agriculture needs to consider aspects beyond just soil. It should include what regenerates biodiversity, increases carbon sequestration, frees up land for rewilding, regenerates our health, and lowers
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Lots of posts these days about archaeology visible in air photos and lidar. Great to see so much free access to these resources. Many of these posts focus on the
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Another commentator on Syria is Maram Susli aka Mimi al-Laham, PartisanGirl, Syrian Girl or Syrian Sister. Putin Girl, Trump Sister or MAGA Partisan would also fit. Her conspiracies filled commentary
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Yep, this is well known amongst historians.The most favorable thing I've ever seen anyone say about him re: antisemitism was "Well, he wasn't *much* more antisemitic than the average WASP
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1/Looks like #HerdImmunity & limited testing is still the plan.The #LockDown ends on 8th May, "Victory in Europe day"Ministers are still working on Johnson's weeks old plan.There is a "gigantic
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Costly novel infectious diseases like #COVID_19 are not one-off events & #climatechange will only make things worst. A thread on this week's #KLIColloquium with Daniel Brooks that was equal parts
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I swore I'd stop banging on about the misrepresentation of newspapers in historical dramas, but then THIS happened in #EnolaHolmes , and here we are again. The Pall Mall Gazette
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I asked my year 1 classes 'If you were a superhero, what would you do?' Here is my analysis;A THREAD Alice - "Move things with my hands" I know what
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