Tag Archives: Agricultura

When plants are politics in Palestine

(Cover photo: David Silverman / Getty Images) The video opens with images of sun-drenched rows [...]

The Algerian foggara, an ancient irrigation system in danger of extinction

The high temperatures and arid soil of much of North Africa and the Middle East [...]

May 10th, the new International Argania Day

The United Nations General Assembly, at the request of Morocco, has recognized May 10th as [...]

Al-Ula, Saudi Arabia’s Petra, and sustainable tourism

Hidden in the middle of the desert in Saudi Arabia, we find this wonder, the [...]

The Zootechnia in the Arabic agricultural texts

El trabajo ha sido realizado consultando directamente ocho textos agrícolas árabes, o escritos en árabe, [...]

Tomatoes without flavour

Most of us have been frustrated by trying tomatoes that taste like… nothing. In this [...]

Irrigations and agnations

The system of Arabian lineages, which has given so many names to Andalusian and Valencian [...]

Utility and Aesthetics in the Gardens of al-Andalus

Over the course of human history, the Mediterranean basin has been an area of cultural [...]

Ornamental Plants in Agricultural and Botanical Treatises from al-Andalus

This study aims at introducing the most outstanding aspects of treatises written by Andalusi agronomists, [...]