For centuries, rice farmers on the island of Bali have taken great care not to offend Dewi Danu, the water goddess who dwells in the crater lake near the peak of Batur volcano. Through an analysis of ritual, resource management practices (planting schedules, irrigation vs. conservation, etc) and social organization, anthropologist Steve Lansing and ecologist James Kremer discover the intricacy and sustainability of this ancient water management agricultural system.

It happened more or less by accident; the people who made it happen were amateurs; and for the most ...

Family farmers in southwest France practice an ancestral way of life under threat in a world increas...

King Corn is a fun and crusading journey into the digestive tract of our fast food nation where one ...

In 1980, Jack Shae and Allen Moore, two ethnographic filmmakers from Harvard University, moved their...

In California’s Central Valley, tucked between the county jail and the shooting range, 100 Mexican-A...
A picture promoting collective farming and the use of tractors in agriculture. It introduces the wor...