| Title | Introduction |
|---|---|
| Subtitle | Writing a Global History of Soybean Farming during the Great Acceleration |
| Contributor | Claudio de Majo(author) |
| Claiton Marcio da Silva(author) | |
| Landing page | https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv309h1fx.6 |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Claudio de Majo, Claiton Marcio da Silva |
| Publisher | The White Horse Press |
| Published on | 2022-11-01 |
| Page range | pp. 5–16 |
| Print length | 12 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
Claudio de Majo is a doctoral candidate at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich). His research interests include global environmental history, the environmental history of Europe and Latin America, and the relation between the commons and ecology. He is also interested in cutting-edge methodologies such as evolutionary history and neo-materialism. Claudio’s research has received funding from the Andrea von Braun Stiftung for Interdisciplinary Studies, the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) and the Amerika-Institut (LMU Munich), where he also works as a lecturer. He is deputy editor of Global Environment: A Journal of Transdisciplinary History.
Claiton Marcio da Silva is an Associate Professor at the Federal University of the Southern Frontier (UFFS), Santa Catarina, Brazil and a CNPq Productivity Researcher. He began studying the modernisation of Brazilian agriculture in 2002, completing his MA in history at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) with a thesis on rural youth in Southern Brazil. At Casa de Oswaldo Cruz (COC/Fiocruz), his doctoral dissertation explored the role of Nelson Rockefeller’s American International Association for Economic and Social Development (AIA) in introducing the US extension service model in Latin America. Recently, he has been exploring the global environmental history of soybeans and their impacts on traditional populations in the Global South.