Maywa Montenegro is Assistant Professor in the Environmental Studies department at the University of California, Santa Cruz and was previously a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Davis. Dr. Montenegro is a social scientist who has published extensively on topics including agroecolo...
By Helen Anne Curry, author of Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction
This post was originally published on The Conversation.
Last summer I grew three varieties of corn in my tiny garden. I knew from the start that my harvest, if any, would be meagre. ...