Welcome to the Agroecologist Incognito blog. I am an agroecologist by training, and with this blog I hope to make an independent contribution to the discourse on agroecology and sustainable agriculture.
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a fish in water
The search for less-toxic agents for disease control in crops has led many researchers to take up investigations into more natural solutions. By the end of the twenty-teens, the hot topic in plant protection was preparations of beneficial microbes. Certain species of bacteria and fungi with names like Bacillus and Trichoderma were marketed for organic …
into the weeds
I am a weed watcher. When an ordinary person walks around a diversified farm, they look at the crops, ignoring the weeds as background noise to the main event. I, on the other hand, pay as much attention to the weeds, registering them as individual species, each with its own personality. In my studies of …
unsustainable wine
What do you say to a person who has just told you that they study diseases of winegrapes? You want to sound interested, so maybe something like, “Oh, good. Make sure nothing happens to my wine.” What you may not realize is what a tall order that is. Grapevines have a key trait that distinguishes …