Harro Maat

History of Technology and STS scholar, interested in colonialism, smallholder farming, food and health

[Joeva Rock @joevarock]

Wow - Outgoing AGRA pres. Agnes Kalibata says the Green Revolution "ship has sailed":

“Part of why we rebranded was that the Green Revolution ship has sailed. We can’t continue pursuing what’s not working for others.”

https://t.co/ELzDcNFajl

[Harro Maat @MtHarro]

📢 Onderwijs en onderzoek zijn cruciaal om de grote vraagstukken van onze tijd aan te pakken! Toch bezuinigt het kabinet-Schoof €1 miljard op hoger onderwijs en wetenschap. Wij komen in actie tegen deze bezuinigingen! Teken jij ook de petitie? https://t.co/mrgYiD8FK5

[Harro Maat @MtHarro]

Offically out now, our paper on Maroon farming and crop diversity as social-political tools.
📢 Read all papers in this great Special Issue, featuring ao @hacurry @RyanNehring @nickfradgley @AlisonRBentley @stuartmccook @SollaiMichele @FenziMarianna @daniela_sclavo

[Plants People Planet 🌱👥🌐 @plantspplplanet]

The role of crop diversity in escape #agriculture; #rice cultivation among Maroon communities in Suriname

@MtHarro, Nicholaas Pinas, Tinde van Andel

📖 https://t.co/nA7G25o6ZT

Societal Impact Statement also available in 🇳🇱

#SpecialIssue #FutureFood

[Capitalism: A Journal of History and Economics @a_capitalism]

The latest issue of Capitalism: A Journal of History and Economics is OUT! FREE ACCESS FOR ONE MONTH!!! Please RT to help us expand access!!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻@jonathandjenner @HelenTilley15 @_TimBarker @chrishughes @flandreaumarc @BiltoftCN @PennPress

https://t.co/9gRCC3d0VR

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

A gold and two bronzes in marathon and then 5,000 and 10,000 metres on the back of two golds and a bronze in Tokyo. Is Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands the greatest track and field athlete of our times? Ethiopian born who runs for Netherlands, she has broken every record, every stereotype. Don’t think since the great Emil Zatopek anyone has come close to three podium finishes in distance running and then to do it in two consecutive Olympics is simply WOW!⭐️ Salute Sifan and Netherlands, a country whose sporting fortunes have risen as a multi cultural society. Great Sporting nations are built on diversity! 🇳🇱 👍#OlympicGames

[Harro Maat @MtHarro]

Working at a university with a, for many foreigners, unpronounceable name, I'm very happy we now have an alternative: Wayning University

[📊 Ruben van Gaalen @rubenivangaalen]

Verengelsing 🇬🇧 van Nederland 🇳🇱. Credits r/topherette.
https://t.co/P88mAwDh59

[Joeva Rock @joevarock]

CFP: *Genome Editing and the Future of Food in Africa*

Our special issue of @elementascience is seeking additional contributions that examine the complex ecosystems in which genome editing, agriculture, & plant breeding are embedded.

Please share!
https://t.co/yrbWTkMwR7

[Geoffrey Hobbis @GeoffreyHobbis]

I am excited to announce two new fully funded PhD positions in the Digitizing Other Economies project #ERCStG #Anthropology #DigitalEconomy #India #Kyrgyz

India: https://t.co/t7h6sFdKC9

Kyrgyz Republic: https://t.co/AJSgTkaf44

[AgroBioDiverse @AgroBioDiverse]

How rice hidden by a woman fleeing slavery in the 1700s could help her descendants | Suriname | The Guardian - https://t.co/tnKsAGstOn

[rob de wijk @robdewijk]

Ik ben niet echt een actievoerder en dit doe ik eigenlijk nooit, maar de naar binnengerichtheid van de politiek in ons land baart me grote zorgen. Gebrek aan internationale oriëntatie gaat uiteindelijk ten koste van ons zelf.

[Priyamvada Gopal © @PriyamvadaGopal]

Nearly ONE HUNDRED PROFESSORS killed--not one word from Western universities. One hundred professors.

[Harro Maat @MtHarro]

👇 people working on decolonizing science institutions with links to Dutch universities, take note👇🏾

[Harro Maat @MtHarro]

Decolonizing the history of plant breeding. We need to know more about how science relied on people like V.K. Badami put in the spotlight in this great paper by Tad Brown. @HPSCultivation

[Plants People Planet 🌱👥🌐 @plantspplplanet]

From Mysore to Cambridge and back: The education of a groundnut breeder
Tad Brown

📖https://t.co/KGxx95z1XG

@Wileyplantsci

[Plants People Planet 🌱👥🌐 @plantspplplanet]

From Mysore to Cambridge and back: The education of a groundnut breeder
Tad Brown

📖https://t.co/KGxx95z1XG

@Wileyplantsci

[Harro Maat @MtHarro]

Great paper! This is what you get when supply-side actors introduce solutions without a clue about demand-side actors' problems.

[Brian Dowd-Uribe @bdowduribe]

Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) are hailed as a way to bring private biotech IPR to public researchers in Africa to create GM & gene-edited crops for poor farmers. Our latest pub leverages a new data set to assess their extent & performance #GMO 👇https://t.co/7AYuLKClro 🧵 1/

[Harro Maat @MtHarro]

Is #ClimateChange pushing #rice production up north? If so, we can learn from #organic forms of cultivation as practiced by #Biodistretto and scholars studying rice from #HistSTM #Anthro and other fields. This was an exciting event!

[Harro Maat @MtHarro]

We're analysing the historically grown social and political dimensions of rice farming by Surinamese Maroons. They created counter-plantation agriculture. And it has lessons for the future!

[Plants People Planet 🌱👥🌐 @plantspplplanet]

The role of crop diversity in escape agriculture; rice cultivation among Maroon communities in Suriname
Maat et al.

📖https://t.co/yl4BX3TYou

@wileyplantsci @wileyfoodsci

[Plants People Planet 🌱👥🌐 @plantspplplanet]

The role of crop diversity in escape agriculture; rice cultivation among Maroon communities in Suriname
Maat et al.

📖https://t.co/yl4BX3TYou

@wileyplantsci @wileyfoodsci

[Lena Kaufmann @Lena__Kaufmann]

Loved the global rice @snsf_ch project launch @uzh_en by my fabulous colleague @YiTangL1!🙏

With @baifulan, Esther & Paul Richards, @domglov, @MtHarro, @homeiaya, @AZimmHistory, @itihaashtag, @scotthma, William Lyon, Martin Dusinberre & Elena D‘Amato

#Asia #Pacific #Africa

[Harro Maat @MtHarro]

@ABalayannis @WUR *looking forward

[Harro Maat @MtHarro]

@ABalayannis @WUR I can't wait to see those boxes moving in! So much looking to have you as a colleague in our group!