University of Kentucky

Instructor

Geography Department

Kentucky Governor's Scholar Program

Faculty

Social Studies Program

American University, School of International Service

Assistant Professor

Global Environmental Politics Program

Kentucky State University

Adjunct Professor

Geography Department

Carleton College

Visiting Faculty

T. Garrett worked at Carleton College as a Visiting Faculty

The Coloniality of US Agricultural Policy: Articulating Agrarian (In)Justice

Journal of Peasant Studies

The Coloniality of US Agricultural Policy: Articulating Agrarian (In)Justice

Journal of Peasant Studies

Documenting USDA Discrimination: Community-Based Research on Farm Policy & Land Justice

ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies

The Coloniality of US Agricultural Policy: Articulating Agrarian (In)Justice

Journal of Peasant Studies

Documenting USDA Discrimination: Community-Based Research on Farm Policy & Land Justice

ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies

Making Room in Geography for Land and Food Sovereignty

Antipode

The Coloniality of US Agricultural Policy: Articulating Agrarian (In)Justice

Journal of Peasant Studies

Documenting USDA Discrimination: Community-Based Research on Farm Policy & Land Justice

ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies

Making Room in Geography for Land and Food Sovereignty

Antipode

Attending to Plants: Crop Diversity Pre-Breeding Technologies as Agrarian Care Co-opted?

Area

Within the realm of international agricultural biodiversity conservation, there has been a surge of funding for “pre‐breeding” of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture. Molecular high‐throughput analysis, among other techniques, attempts to discern, document, and digitize the genomic traits of farmer/landrace varieties and crop wild relatives stored in gene banks to render them legible fodder for professional breeding. But pre‐breeding necessitates thorough phenotypic evaluation and characterization to understand the physiological attributes, heritable traits, and responses of a plant through its life cycle, under various growing and climactic conditions. This paper explores the irony that a range of surveillance technologies have been developed and deployed to mimic the agrarian work and skills of observing plants and attending to how they are faring, what they like and do not like over many seasons and contexts. These calls and technologies acknowledge the need for heedful attention to crops, even as they further displace actual farmers and their longstanding modes of selecting and saving open‐pollinated seeds each harvest. Such agrarian expertise of caring for plants has been systematically devalued and de‐intellectualized, with gendered implications. Drawing on feminist geographies and political ecology, a landscape of care framework discloses the matrix of human and beyond‐human care at work in cultivating agricultural biodiversity. Rather than ushering in a new valuation of this expertise, new pre‐breeding technologies and trainings continue to ignore on‐farm, plant‐based care work and the farmers who do it. Calling out this contradiction could help re‐center such agrarian care skills as the crux to effective agricultural biodiversity utilization. The proliferation of pre‐breeding technologies could signify the co‐optation of agrarian care skills or the opportunity to re‐centre and revalue them.

The Coloniality of US Agricultural Policy: Articulating Agrarian (In)Justice

Journal of Peasant Studies

Documenting USDA Discrimination: Community-Based Research on Farm Policy & Land Justice

ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies

Making Room in Geography for Land and Food Sovereignty

Antipode

Attending to Plants: Crop Diversity Pre-Breeding Technologies as Agrarian Care Co-opted?

Area

Within the realm of international agricultural biodiversity conservation, there has been a surge of funding for “pre‐breeding” of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture. Molecular high‐throughput analysis, among other techniques, attempts to discern, document, and digitize the genomic traits of farmer/landrace varieties and crop wild relatives stored in gene banks to render them legible fodder for professional breeding. But pre‐breeding necessitates thorough phenotypic evaluation and characterization to understand the physiological attributes, heritable traits, and responses of a plant through its life cycle, under various growing and climactic conditions. This paper explores the irony that a range of surveillance technologies have been developed and deployed to mimic the agrarian work and skills of observing plants and attending to how they are faring, what they like and do not like over many seasons and contexts. These calls and technologies acknowledge the need for heedful attention to crops, even as they further displace actual farmers and their longstanding modes of selecting and saving open‐pollinated seeds each harvest. Such agrarian expertise of caring for plants has been systematically devalued and de‐intellectualized, with gendered implications. Drawing on feminist geographies and political ecology, a landscape of care framework discloses the matrix of human and beyond‐human care at work in cultivating agricultural biodiversity. Rather than ushering in a new valuation of this expertise, new pre‐breeding technologies and trainings continue to ignore on‐farm, plant‐based care work and the farmers who do it. Calling out this contradiction could help re‐center such agrarian care skills as the crux to effective agricultural biodiversity utilization. The proliferation of pre‐breeding technologies could signify the co‐optation of agrarian care skills or the opportunity to re‐centre and revalue them.

United States–Cuba Agricultural Relations and Agrarian Questions

Journal of Agrarian Change

The Coloniality of US Agricultural Policy: Articulating Agrarian (In)Justice

Journal of Peasant Studies

Documenting USDA Discrimination: Community-Based Research on Farm Policy & Land Justice

ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies

Making Room in Geography for Land and Food Sovereignty

Antipode

Attending to Plants: Crop Diversity Pre-Breeding Technologies as Agrarian Care Co-opted?

Area

Within the realm of international agricultural biodiversity conservation, there has been a surge of funding for “pre‐breeding” of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture. Molecular high‐throughput analysis, among other techniques, attempts to discern, document, and digitize the genomic traits of farmer/landrace varieties and crop wild relatives stored in gene banks to render them legible fodder for professional breeding. But pre‐breeding necessitates thorough phenotypic evaluation and characterization to understand the physiological attributes, heritable traits, and responses of a plant through its life cycle, under various growing and climactic conditions. This paper explores the irony that a range of surveillance technologies have been developed and deployed to mimic the agrarian work and skills of observing plants and attending to how they are faring, what they like and do not like over many seasons and contexts. These calls and technologies acknowledge the need for heedful attention to crops, even as they further displace actual farmers and their longstanding modes of selecting and saving open‐pollinated seeds each harvest. Such agrarian expertise of caring for plants has been systematically devalued and de‐intellectualized, with gendered implications. Drawing on feminist geographies and political ecology, a landscape of care framework discloses the matrix of human and beyond‐human care at work in cultivating agricultural biodiversity. Rather than ushering in a new valuation of this expertise, new pre‐breeding technologies and trainings continue to ignore on‐farm, plant‐based care work and the farmers who do it. Calling out this contradiction could help re‐center such agrarian care skills as the crux to effective agricultural biodiversity utilization. The proliferation of pre‐breeding technologies could signify the co‐optation of agrarian care skills or the opportunity to re‐centre and revalue them.

United States–Cuba Agricultural Relations and Agrarian Questions

Journal of Agrarian Change

Latent Alliances: the Women’s March and agrarian feminism as opportunities of and for political ecology

Gender, Place & Culture

The Coloniality of US Agricultural Policy: Articulating Agrarian (In)Justice

Journal of Peasant Studies

Documenting USDA Discrimination: Community-Based Research on Farm Policy & Land Justice

ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies

Making Room in Geography for Land and Food Sovereignty

Antipode

Attending to Plants: Crop Diversity Pre-Breeding Technologies as Agrarian Care Co-opted?

Area

Within the realm of international agricultural biodiversity conservation, there has been a surge of funding for “pre‐breeding” of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture. Molecular high‐throughput analysis, among other techniques, attempts to discern, document, and digitize the genomic traits of farmer/landrace varieties and crop wild relatives stored in gene banks to render them legible fodder for professional breeding. But pre‐breeding necessitates thorough phenotypic evaluation and characterization to understand the physiological attributes, heritable traits, and responses of a plant through its life cycle, under various growing and climactic conditions. This paper explores the irony that a range of surveillance technologies have been developed and deployed to mimic the agrarian work and skills of observing plants and attending to how they are faring, what they like and do not like over many seasons and contexts. These calls and technologies acknowledge the need for heedful attention to crops, even as they further displace actual farmers and their longstanding modes of selecting and saving open‐pollinated seeds each harvest. Such agrarian expertise of caring for plants has been systematically devalued and de‐intellectualized, with gendered implications. Drawing on feminist geographies and political ecology, a landscape of care framework discloses the matrix of human and beyond‐human care at work in cultivating agricultural biodiversity. Rather than ushering in a new valuation of this expertise, new pre‐breeding technologies and trainings continue to ignore on‐farm, plant‐based care work and the farmers who do it. Calling out this contradiction could help re‐center such agrarian care skills as the crux to effective agricultural biodiversity utilization. The proliferation of pre‐breeding technologies could signify the co‐optation of agrarian care skills or the opportunity to re‐centre and revalue them.

United States–Cuba Agricultural Relations and Agrarian Questions

Journal of Agrarian Change

Latent Alliances: the Women’s March and agrarian feminism as opportunities of and for political ecology

Gender, Place & Culture

U.S. Farm Policy as Fraught Populism: Tracing the Scalar Tensions of Nationalist Agricultural Governance

Annals of American Association of Geographers

The Coloniality of US Agricultural Policy: Articulating Agrarian (In)Justice

Journal of Peasant Studies

Documenting USDA Discrimination: Community-Based Research on Farm Policy & Land Justice

ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies

Making Room in Geography for Land and Food Sovereignty

Antipode

Attending to Plants: Crop Diversity Pre-Breeding Technologies as Agrarian Care Co-opted?

Area

Within the realm of international agricultural biodiversity conservation, there has been a surge of funding for “pre‐breeding” of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture. Molecular high‐throughput analysis, among other techniques, attempts to discern, document, and digitize the genomic traits of farmer/landrace varieties and crop wild relatives stored in gene banks to render them legible fodder for professional breeding. But pre‐breeding necessitates thorough phenotypic evaluation and characterization to understand the physiological attributes, heritable traits, and responses of a plant through its life cycle, under various growing and climactic conditions. This paper explores the irony that a range of surveillance technologies have been developed and deployed to mimic the agrarian work and skills of observing plants and attending to how they are faring, what they like and do not like over many seasons and contexts. These calls and technologies acknowledge the need for heedful attention to crops, even as they further displace actual farmers and their longstanding modes of selecting and saving open‐pollinated seeds each harvest. Such agrarian expertise of caring for plants has been systematically devalued and de‐intellectualized, with gendered implications. Drawing on feminist geographies and political ecology, a landscape of care framework discloses the matrix of human and beyond‐human care at work in cultivating agricultural biodiversity. Rather than ushering in a new valuation of this expertise, new pre‐breeding technologies and trainings continue to ignore on‐farm, plant‐based care work and the farmers who do it. Calling out this contradiction could help re‐center such agrarian care skills as the crux to effective agricultural biodiversity utilization. The proliferation of pre‐breeding technologies could signify the co‐optation of agrarian care skills or the opportunity to re‐centre and revalue them.

United States–Cuba Agricultural Relations and Agrarian Questions

Journal of Agrarian Change

Latent Alliances: the Women’s March and agrarian feminism as opportunities of and for political ecology

Gender, Place & Culture

U.S. Farm Policy as Fraught Populism: Tracing the Scalar Tensions of Nationalist Agricultural Governance

Annals of American Association of Geographers

Do you eat? Then you should care about agricultural policy.

Baltimore Sun op-ed

There's more to say on this front, but this is a start.

The Coloniality of US Agricultural Policy: Articulating Agrarian (In)Justice

Journal of Peasant Studies

Documenting USDA Discrimination: Community-Based Research on Farm Policy & Land Justice

ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies

Making Room in Geography for Land and Food Sovereignty

Antipode

Attending to Plants: Crop Diversity Pre-Breeding Technologies as Agrarian Care Co-opted?

Area

Within the realm of international agricultural biodiversity conservation, there has been a surge of funding for “pre‐breeding” of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture. Molecular high‐throughput analysis, among other techniques, attempts to discern, document, and digitize the genomic traits of farmer/landrace varieties and crop wild relatives stored in gene banks to render them legible fodder for professional breeding. But pre‐breeding necessitates thorough phenotypic evaluation and characterization to understand the physiological attributes, heritable traits, and responses of a plant through its life cycle, under various growing and climactic conditions. This paper explores the irony that a range of surveillance technologies have been developed and deployed to mimic the agrarian work and skills of observing plants and attending to how they are faring, what they like and do not like over many seasons and contexts. These calls and technologies acknowledge the need for heedful attention to crops, even as they further displace actual farmers and their longstanding modes of selecting and saving open‐pollinated seeds each harvest. Such agrarian expertise of caring for plants has been systematically devalued and de‐intellectualized, with gendered implications. Drawing on feminist geographies and political ecology, a landscape of care framework discloses the matrix of human and beyond‐human care at work in cultivating agricultural biodiversity. Rather than ushering in a new valuation of this expertise, new pre‐breeding technologies and trainings continue to ignore on‐farm, plant‐based care work and the farmers who do it. Calling out this contradiction could help re‐center such agrarian care skills as the crux to effective agricultural biodiversity utilization. The proliferation of pre‐breeding technologies could signify the co‐optation of agrarian care skills or the opportunity to re‐centre and revalue them.

United States–Cuba Agricultural Relations and Agrarian Questions

Journal of Agrarian Change

Latent Alliances: the Women’s March and agrarian feminism as opportunities of and for political ecology

Gender, Place & Culture

U.S. Farm Policy as Fraught Populism: Tracing the Scalar Tensions of Nationalist Agricultural Governance

Annals of American Association of Geographers

Do you eat? Then you should care about agricultural policy.

Baltimore Sun op-ed

There's more to say on this front, but this is a start.

New Opportunities, New Challenges: Harnessing Cuba’s Advances in Sustainable Agriculture under Normalizing Relations

Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene

Fernández, M., J. Williams, G. Figueroa, G. Graddy-Lovelace, M. Machado, L. Vásquez, N. Pérez, L. Casimiro, G. Romero, and F. Funes Aguilar. “New Opportunities, New Challenges: Harnessing Cuba’s Advances in Sustainable Agriculture under Normalizing Relations” Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene. Forum: “Cuba’s Agri-Food System in Transition” [Forthcoming translation in Spanish, in same special issue]

The Coloniality of US Agricultural Policy: Articulating Agrarian (In)Justice

Journal of Peasant Studies

Documenting USDA Discrimination: Community-Based Research on Farm Policy & Land Justice

ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies

Making Room in Geography for Land and Food Sovereignty

Antipode

Attending to Plants: Crop Diversity Pre-Breeding Technologies as Agrarian Care Co-opted?

Area

Within the realm of international agricultural biodiversity conservation, there has been a surge of funding for “pre‐breeding” of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture. Molecular high‐throughput analysis, among other techniques, attempts to discern, document, and digitize the genomic traits of farmer/landrace varieties and crop wild relatives stored in gene banks to render them legible fodder for professional breeding. But pre‐breeding necessitates thorough phenotypic evaluation and characterization to understand the physiological attributes, heritable traits, and responses of a plant through its life cycle, under various growing and climactic conditions. This paper explores the irony that a range of surveillance technologies have been developed and deployed to mimic the agrarian work and skills of observing plants and attending to how they are faring, what they like and do not like over many seasons and contexts. These calls and technologies acknowledge the need for heedful attention to crops, even as they further displace actual farmers and their longstanding modes of selecting and saving open‐pollinated seeds each harvest. Such agrarian expertise of caring for plants has been systematically devalued and de‐intellectualized, with gendered implications. Drawing on feminist geographies and political ecology, a landscape of care framework discloses the matrix of human and beyond‐human care at work in cultivating agricultural biodiversity. Rather than ushering in a new valuation of this expertise, new pre‐breeding technologies and trainings continue to ignore on‐farm, plant‐based care work and the farmers who do it. Calling out this contradiction could help re‐center such agrarian care skills as the crux to effective agricultural biodiversity utilization. The proliferation of pre‐breeding technologies could signify the co‐optation of agrarian care skills or the opportunity to re‐centre and revalue them.

United States–Cuba Agricultural Relations and Agrarian Questions

Journal of Agrarian Change

Latent Alliances: the Women’s March and agrarian feminism as opportunities of and for political ecology

Gender, Place & Culture

U.S. Farm Policy as Fraught Populism: Tracing the Scalar Tensions of Nationalist Agricultural Governance

Annals of American Association of Geographers

Do you eat? Then you should care about agricultural policy.

Baltimore Sun op-ed

There's more to say on this front, but this is a start.

New Opportunities, New Challenges: Harnessing Cuba’s Advances in Sustainable Agriculture under Normalizing Relations

Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene

Fernández, M., J. Williams, G. Figueroa, G. Graddy-Lovelace, M. Machado, L. Vásquez, N. Pérez, L. Casimiro, G. Romero, and F. Funes Aguilar. “New Opportunities, New Challenges: Harnessing Cuba’s Advances in Sustainable Agriculture under Normalizing Relations” Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene. Forum: “Cuba’s Agri-Food System in Transition” [Forthcoming translation in Spanish, in same special issue]

From supply management to agricultural subsidies—and back again? The U.S. Farm Bill & agrarian (in)viability

Journal of Rural Studies