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• The origins of pandemics
• Pathogenic reservoirs
• Livestock revolutions
• Wild goose chase
• Affinity and access
• Office vets and duck doctors.

"VIRULENT ZONES is an ethnography of the search for the origins of influenza pandemics in rural China. In the early 1980s, Hong-Kong based virologists pinpointed southern China as an origin for influenza pandemics due to the region's entanglements of farming practices, animal husbandry, and wet-rice paddy landscapes. One example is Poyang Lake, which is not only China's largest freshwater lake, but a wintering site for hundreds of thousands of migratory birds and the home of large-scale duck farming. According to popular imaginings of pandemic epicenters, scientists go to a remote place and find a discrete origin for a virus, which can then be transported back into a laboratory for further research. But for anthropologist Lyle Fearnley, Poyang Lake exemplifies the importance of what scientists call the non-virological, or other factors outside of the virus that are crucial to understanding the virus' spread, such as migration of wildlife species, rapid population growth, and an increase in livestock production. When taken into consideration, non-virological factors also affect the trajectory of research itself; rather than the epicenter functioning as a place from which a virus is extracted and taken to a laboratory, the epicenter, in this case Poyang Lake, becomes the site from which research is conducted. For Fearnley, this shift is crucial, as Poyang Lake serves as an example of a new form of scientific displacement, which is usually understood as the process through which research done in a laboratory is "displaced" into the real word-and vice versa-through carefully controlled experiments. But at Poyang Lake, where scientists and farmers share one habitat, Fearnley argues that elements of research are continually reproduced and changed, displacing scientific inquiry into new directions. And whereas in the traditional laboratory setting, scientific displacement from the field to the lab renders a power dynamic in which the researcher is more knowledgeable than the layperson, the research site of Poyang Lake-and its continuous displacement through encounters with farmers and farming practices-serves to disrupt the hierarchical relationship between layperson and scientist. What emerges at Poyang Lake, then, is not only a revaluation of the power dynamic at the heart of scientific study, but a new account of scientific research and agency"-- Provided by publisher.

• Rethinking consumption
• A brief history of overconsumption
• Selling the bounty
• Does the government help or hurt?
• So-called healthy ingredients
• Sane eating
• How to eat like food matters
• How to cook like food matters
• Meal plans: a sample month
• The basics
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Snacks and appetizers
• Dinner
• Desserts.

• Abstract 7-- Preface 11-- List of acronyms 15-- Key concepts 17--
• Part 1 - Overview 19--
• 1. Introduction 21--
• 2. HIV/AIDS impact on agricultural production systems 27--
• 3. HIV/AIDS impact on rural livelihoods 31--
• 4. HIV/AIDS impact at rural household level 33--
• 5. HIV/AIDS impact on the agricultural estate sector 39--
• 6. HIV/AIDS impact on pastoralism 43--
• 7. The impact of HIV/AIDS on rural livelihoods - the evidence so far 45--
• 8. Gender as the decisive factor 49--
• 9. HIV/AIDS and other livelihood shocks 55--
• 10. Some concluding remarks 57--
• Part 2 - Annotated bibliography 59--
• 1. HIV/AIDS and agriculture 61--
• 2. HIV/AIDS and broader development issues 91--
• 3. Other readings 99--
• 4. World Wide Web resources on HIV/AIDS and agriculture in sub-Saharan African
• 101. Abstract 7-- Preface 11-- List of acronyms 15-- Key concepts 17--
• Part 1 - Overview 21--
• 1. Introduction 23--
• 2. HIV/AIDS, gender, sexuality and power 31--
• 3. Gender-specific impact of HIV/AIDS on rural households and livelihoods 41--
• 4. HIV/AIDS as a threat to food security 49--
• 5. Gender and care within rural households 53--
• 6. Gender and the issue of AIDS orphans 59--
• 7. Some concluding remarks: towards gender specific mitigation strategies 65--
• Part 2 - Annotated bibliography 71--
• 1. HIV/AIDS, gender and (rural) livelihoods 73--
• 2. HIV/AIDS, gender, sexuality and power 83--
• 3. HIV/AIDS and wider gender issues 95--
• 4. Other readings 113--
• 5. World wide web resources on gender and HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa 117-- About the author 119.
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This publication is the first in a three part series on HIV/AIDS and agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa with the overall objective of providing a resource base on issues of rural development in a broad sense in the times of HIV/AIDS. This first book discusses the impact of the epidemic as it has emerged over the last decades at different levels of the agricultural sector, namely the farming system level, the livelihood level, and the household level. In a further step, impact on the agricultural estate sector as well as pastoralism is discussed. One overarching issue that emerges is the importance of gender attributes to adequately understand and address HIV/AIDS impact - the topic at the centre of the second part of the series. The text ends with a discussion of HIV/AIDS in relation to other shocks that befall rural livelihoods. It is followed by an annotated bibliography.
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• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction
• 1. Roots of Optimism and Anxiety
• 2. DBCP on the Farm
• 3. Unequal Exposures
• 4. An Inconvenient Forum?
• 5. Making a Movement
• 6. National Law, Transnational Justice? Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index.
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The pesticide dibromochloropropane, known as DBCP, was developed by the chemical companies Dow and Shell in the 1950s to target wormlike, soil-dwelling creatures called nematodes. Despite signs that the chemical was dangerous, it was widely used in U.S. agriculture and on Chiquita and Dole banana plantations in Central America. In the late 1970s, DBCP was linked to male sterility, but an uneven regulatory process left many workers especially on Dole's banana farms exposed for years after health risks were known. Susanna Rankin Bohme tells an intriguing, multilayered history that spans fifty years, highlighting the transnational reach of corporations and social justice movements. Toxic Injustice links health inequalities and worker struggles as it charts how people excluded from workplace and legal protections have found ways to challenge power structures and seek justice from states and transnational corporations alike.
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