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Not all wheats are the same: selection and improvement of wheat in Portugal sin...
Faísca, Carlos Manuel; Freire, DulceThis article examines the dissemination processes and geography of wheat species and varieties in Portugal between the 16th and the 20th centuries. Based on a wide range of sources, from monastic records to official agricultural reports and oral interviews, it is concluded that the conditions that shaped the traditional division between soft varieties in the north and hard varieties in the south had changed by ...
Changing rice geographies: a long-term perspective of Portuguese regional produ...
Faísca, Carlos Manuel; Freire, Dulce; Viana, Cláudia M.From its origins in Asia, cultivation of Oryza sativa L. in Portugal has had to adapt to local agroecological conditions. Since the late eighteenth century, there has been significant human intervention in rice production, particularly through public policies aimed at increasing production to achieve national food self-sufficiency. Using national and regional statistics on rice production, this article analyses...
Exotic, traditional and hybrid landscapes: The subtle history of the Iberian Pe...
Gomes, Inês; González Remuiñán, Alberto; Freire, DulceMaize (Zea mays L.) in the Iberian Peninsula embodies a history of landscape changes where the concepts of ‘exotic’, ‘traditional’ and ‘hybrid’ help to under- stand the engagements between landscape, farmers, agronomists (since the 19th and 20th centuries) and seeds. Today, landscapes reveal biophysical and ecological changes that reflect a panoply of intentions. A multitude of agents, and their inter- actions,...
Regadío y desarrollo agrícola en Portugal: repercusiones de la construcción de ...
Faísca, Carlos Manuel; Almeida, Maria Antónia Pires de; Freire, DulceDesde el siglo XVII, el regadío se apunta como una solución para asentar población en el Alentejo debido al aumento de la producciónagrícola y la consecuente reforma agraria. Sin embargo, solo desde mediados del siglo XX se produjo un crecimiento de las zonas deregadío. Después de más de seis décadas, este trabajo estudia el impacto de la construcción de la presa de Maranhão, Avis, Alentejocruzando los objetivo...
Regadío y desarrollo agrícola en Portugal: repercusiones de la construcción de ...
Almeida, Maria Antónia Figueiredo Pires; Faísca, Carlos Manuel; Freire, DulceDesde el siglo XVII, el regadío se apunta como una solución para asentar población en el Alentejo debido al aumento de la producción agrícola y la consecuente reforma agraria. Sin embargo, solo desde mediados del siglo XX se produjo un crecimiento de las zonas de regadío. Después de más de seis décadas, este trabajo estudia el impacto de la construcción de la presa de Maranhão, Avis, Alentejo cruzando los objet...
Do manuscrito à mesa. Cozinhar receitas do século XVIII
Freire, Dulce; Pires, Maria; Bonacho, RicardoCentenas de receitas culinárias do século XVIII e duas questões: como cozinhá-las seguindo as atuais exigências de alimentação saudável, saborosa e sustentável? Como trazer para a mesa receitas que estiveram encerradas durante 300 anos num manuscrito? Para procurar respostas, a equipa do projeto ReSEED desafiou os estudantes da Escola Superior de Hotelaria e Turismo do Estoril (ESHTE) a reinterpretar as receita...
Agricultural land systems importance for supporting food security and sustainab...
Viana, Cláudia M.; Freire, Dulce; Abrantes, Patrícia; Rocha, Jorge; Pereira, PauloAgriculture provides the largest share of food supplies and ensures a critical number of ecosystem services (e.g., food provisioning). Therefore, agriculture is vital for food security and supports the Sustainable Development Goal (SDGs) 2 (SDG 2 - zero hunger) as others SDG's. Several studies have been published in different world areas with different research directions focused on increasing food and nutritio...
The State and Natural Resources: 250 Years of Rice Production in Portugal, 18th...
Faísca, Carlos Manuel; Freire, Dulce; M. Viana, CláudiaThis article analyses rice production in Portugal from its establishment in the late eighteenth century to the present. Today, not only are the Portuguese the main consumers of rice in Europe, but this cereal is the second most-produced by Portuguese agriculture. However, the historical analysis of rice production in Portugal is limited to specific eras and/or geographies. This research aims to contribute to fi...
Evaluation of the factors explaining the use of agricultural land: A machine le...
Viana, Cláudia M.; Santos, Maurício; Freire, Dulce; Abrantes, Patrícia; Rocha, Jorgeo effectively plan and manage the use of agricultural land, it is crucial to identify and evaluate the multiple human and environmental factors that influence it. In this study, we propose a model framework to identify the factors potentially explaining the use of agricultural land for wheat, maize, and olive grove plantations at the regional level. By developing a machine-learning model coupled with a model-ag...
Estatísticas agrícolas regionais em Portugal (séculos XIX a XXI): fontes, probl...
Freire, Dulce; Faísca, Carlos ManuelThe Portuguese historiography, following a European trend with several decades, has in recent years built long-term statistical series on the most diverse themes, thus enabling a greater accuracy of the interpretations of the past. Due to its high historical relevance, agriculture is one of the most pertinent themes, especially considering that, until the middle of the 20th century, it occupied the daily livest...