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Social History of Plant Breeding and Seed Production
Lichá, Tereza ; Žák, Martin (referee) ; Kollarová, Denisa (advisor)
How do Grocery Stores Shelves Stay Full All the Time is a visual essay based on extensive research. In the form of an iterative website, the work explores the issue of vegetable shortages in the UK during the months of February and March this year and the UK government's response to the situation. The aim is to highlight a fragile system that is invisible to us in our everyday lives through the commonplace of full supermarket shelves. Despite the fact that it is only a century since people worked in the fields every day for their own livelihood, millions of lives have been lost because of the imperialist experiments of the world powers in food self-sufficiency. The essay then shifts its excursion from the current situation in the UK to the experiments in landscape intervention in the 20th century, beginning with the Great Depression in the US and Mao's Great Leap Forward. During the so-called longread, pop-ups pop up with historical references serving as brief points of interest on the topic, such as Marie Antoinette's artificial village or the idea of draining the Mediterranean Sea and creating a new state at its bottom to be populated and farmed.
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Agricultural reforms in India and their effects
Biľová, Oľga ; Stuchlíková, Zuzana (advisor) ; De Castro, Tereza (referee)
The aim of my work is to bring closer the indian agricultural policy to a reader. Firstly, I will focus on the basic structure of the agriculture in India. It means, what is its weight and who, in India, depends on farming. Moreover, I will pay attention to the institutions that are devoted to this issue. Second point of my topic will analyse the birth, functionality and the effects of the green revolution -- the specific revolution, which was present not only in India, but also in other countries, with problem of lack of food production during the last century. In the last part of my work, after analyzing reforms of the twentieth century, we will look at their positive and negative effects. Negative impacts, that are environmental problems, danger of human healthcare or shortage of primary crop plants throughout the country. But also optimistic impacts, like the improvement of defective reforms or the effort to solve the presence of acute problems.
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