Soy is ubiquitous. Nearly all of us consume the bean in some form on a daily basis. A common way to conceptualize its accelerating production and consumption has been as a mere natural response to a century-long steady increase in world demand. Likewise, the standard narrative about the supply side (the rapid expansion of soybean, referred to in Latin America as sojización) is that it comes…
Edible nuts are used by mankind for food, edible oils, spices, condiments or beverages. They have been an important food source from prehistoric times and are among the most nutritionally concentrated of human foods, high in protein, oil, energy, minerals and vitamins. Nuts that are only rarely used as famine food have been excluded from this present study partly because of the paucity informat…