As a result, biologists working in threatened ecosystems around the world are increasingly trying counterintuitive strategies, promoting nonpolluting forms of shrimp farming instead of condemning it all as a disaster, finding ways to shape farms to preserve habitat and working with loggers instead of against them.
Indeed, rural areas, home to 44% of Americans in 1930, had long been in bad shape: farming had been in a slump since the early 1920s.But worse was to come.
By soothing anxious Americans in this way, the supplement industry has since grown into a $15 billion enterpriseDespite the many strengths in "Food Politics", the book has surprisingly little to say about the American food industry's influence in shaping federal farm legislation.
Products, collective organization and institutions are factors that shape farm tourism.
With this change, farmers, academic researchers, and industry innovators have shaped the farm landscape, literally.
Translators must express technological terms in languages shaped by livestock, farming and fishing, and choose alternatives for culture-specific words such as "cookie", "file" and "mouse".Ibrahima Sarr, a Senegalese coder, led the translation of Firefox into Fulah, which is spoken by 20m people from Senegal to Nigeria.
But scientists may have over-estimated the impact farming had in shaping the human immune system, because tests on the hunter-gatherer's DNA found that he already carried mutations that boost the immune system to tackle various nasty bugs.
To better understand the role of landscape complexity and farming systems in shaping plant assemblages, it is of interest to focus on functional traits rather than on floristic composition, which may help to highlight trends in vegetation patterns.
That was easy for the rectangular-shaped farms but much harder for the more than 200 recorded plots that, although still four-sided, lacked that uniform shape.
Figuring out where to put the farm animals and shaping designs of transcendent beauty were all in a day's work.
