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Much economic research on the environment, labor, and agriculture centers commodities or capital produced without considering the work necessary to continually create landscapes of living beings or skilled workers. And yet accounting for these efforts will be critical to understanding a 21st century marked by environmental change and rising inequality. Small farms and gardens defy straightforward cost-benefit analysis. They are homes and aspirations, spaces that enable alternative economies or connections to kith and kin. More than human, they are fundamentally alive. This project explores social reproduction, diverse economies, degrowth, and ecological economics to ask how small farms can contribute to a livable world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57195cec8259b5e997974243/1577415867480-LS8IPZKYOZ267XL0UWN7/IMG_0806.JPG Research In a mountainous region where food security depends on small-scale agricultural production, natural resource collection, and heirloom plant and animal species, Bosnians must now adapt to a changing climate that pulls species up in elevation and depressed economic opportunity that pushes the next generation of land managers abroad to find work. This project uses ethnographic, ethnobotanical, and spatial data to investigate how and to what extent Bosnian agrarian practices and natural resource management shape biodiversity across this landscape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57195cec8259b5e997974243/1577416036351-0HY5VPJBR6V40Y520UUC/IMG_0956.JPG Research A seed is a choice that cannot be taken back. In Telangana, India, the seemingly simple decision about which seed to plant has taken center stage in a larger debate over two mutually exclusive visions for the future of agriculture: genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and certified organic farming. By asking how farmers learn about their seeds and put that knowledge to use, This project illuminates the local impact of global changes: the slow, persistent dangers of pesticides, inequalities in rural life, the aspirations of people who grow food and fibers sent around the world, the place of ecological knowledge in modern agriculture, and even the complex threat of suicide. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57195cec8259b5e997974243/1577416186428-QD64U7NLJW1DF0JAMPH4/IMG_9556.jpg Research Human bodies teem with trillions of microbes, a complex assemblage of bacteria, eukaryotes, and viruses essential for human health and wellbeing. By consuming probiotic bacteria, humans can modify the microbiome within our guts to reap substantial health benefits ranging from neurological function to immune response. The keys to understanding the interactions between fermentation and the gut microbiome lie in the processes and technologies by which foods are fermented – a cultural as well as biological question of microbial activity, diet, fermentation practices, and local culinary traditions. In this project, we combine research strategies from biology, genetics, and cultural anthropology to investigate how local knowledge and cultural practices associated with fermented food production directly impact microbial communities within ourselves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57195cec8259b5e997974243/1577416582529-H1FLEAX7XEF8NBIDHLPJ/IMG_0030.jpg Research Small and alternative agriculture is making a comeback in the United States as rural communities confront the consequences of consolidation, commodity monoculture, and philosophies of limitless growth. 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