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Nicholas C. Kawa

Environmental Anthropologist

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No-Till: A Win-Win for Soil Conservation?

No-till is a soil conservation practice that has been widely adopted by Midwestern farmers. But what are the trade-offs that come with it?

Wasted: An Inquiry into the Management of Human Excreta

You can watch my most recent lecture shared with the Department of Anthropology at SUNY-Brockport.

#BLM

Read the latest statement from the Association of Black Anthropologists.

Black Lives Matter

Q&A with UT Press

University of Texas Press just posted a short interview with me about my new book Amazonia in the Anthropocene: People, … More

Amazonia, anthropocene, book, ethnography, interview

Soil Health Underwear Test

“Men’s cotton briefs can serve the needs of science when buried in a field for a few weeks. It’s a … More

April Edition of Anthropology News Focuses on Climate Change

This month’s edition of Anthropology News focuses on climate change. I contributed a short piece titled “Managing Uncertainty in Rural Amazonia: … More

The Coming Food Crisis

Gary Nabhan just published a valuable op-ed in the New York Times discussing the coming food crisis and how we … More

#climatechange #USagriculture #food

From the Streets of Bogotá

“If the world were a bank, we’d save it.”

Price of Tomatoes Skyrockets in Amazonas, Climate Change Implicated

In Brazilian Amazonia, the price of manioc flour has risen significantly in the past year. Mostly recently, the prices of … More

agriculture, Amazonia, climate change

North Korea Says Its Archaeologists Discovered a Unicorn Lair

What might North Korean archaeologists find next???  

archaeology, North Korea, unicorns

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