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Zoogenetics, large-scale production and demand

For hundreds of millions of poor rural households, livestock remain a key asset, often meeting multiple needs, and enabling livelihoods to be built in some of the world’s harshest environments.   Roberto Salomón   The livestock sector is undergoing dramatic changes as large-scale production expands in response to surging demand […]

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A labour of scholarly love

If Herodotus is the ‘father of history’ then surely Strabo (c. 60 BC–c. AD 25), describing the physical past and present of his known world, deserves the same status for geography.   Sean Sheehan   Born more than half a millennium after Herodotus, Strabo documents three continents at a time […]

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Giving back what is owed

The translator of the first edition in English of Anna Gréki’s “Algérie, capitale, Alger” quotes some lines from a poem where Gréki speaks of wanting to “reveal a certain movement / a certain rhythm, certain relations / of people to a situation”.   Sean Sheehan   Born in Algeria, her […]