Flooding in Cambridge, Drought in Brazil
Our study tour team is back in the United States now, and I am enjoying my last few days of being tan before the utter lack of sun here in New England turns me pale again. I feel like I have been in...
View ArticleThe Tradeoff: Sustainability, Welfare, or Charity?
by Aaron Scott Green I admit it, I am a capitalist: A big, bad, American capitalist who believes in the paradigm of consumer driven competitive markets. I used to work on Wall Street. The derivatives...
View ArticleTwo very different takes on one farmer's experience
Reflecting on our two weeks in Brazil, I think about the diversity of opinions and approaches to sustainable agriculture and poverty reduction. Healthy debates abounded on the bus rides in and out of...
View ArticleBrazindia Agriculture and Innovation Trip Comparisons
The 22 Brazil/India study tour participants got together today to share reflections from our trips - (12 students traveled to Brazil, and 10 to India, over 2 weeks in March to study agriculture and...
View ArticleCollective Identity
By Rodolfo Nobrega My job was to follow and support the MIT group in the Brazilian Sertão, in Pernambuco State. Sometimes I’ve tried to give my point of view and sometimes to translate the farmers’...
View ArticleIndia Entrepreneurship Roundup
On our last day in Mumbai, the India Agriculture Study tour team got together to discuss and record their final lessons learned from two weeks in India. Our last session of the day involved identifying...
View ArticleMorning at the Mandi
By Weisen Li The air was filled with spices. I could hardly breathe without sneezing or tearing. It was early in the morning and we are touring the mandi, a wholesale market run by the APMC...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Tomatoes
by Weisen Li It was the bigger of tomatoes, it was the smaller of tomatoes. It was the taller of vines, it was the shorter of vines… I was in shock when I first saw the difference between two tomato...
View ArticleAgricultural happenings around MIT
There have been so many exciting ag and innovation events at MIT that I wanted to highlight some of the latest. These spin-offs, collaborations, or somehow otherwise related to our class earlier in the...
View ArticleTEDX. A celebration of food.
This post first appeared on Erica's blog. Let's support 'farms that aren't worlds into themselves, farms that restore instead of deplete, farms that farm extensively, instead of intensively, farmers...
View ArticleHow do you measure value?
As Americans, we sometimes have a propensity to overthink things in a way that can obscure the more obvious facts. Here is an example. On Wednesday we met with Kishore Kunjeer, a broker at the...
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