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Name Birth/death Country Remark William Albrecht: 1888–1974: USA: Joselito (Lito) M. Arocena: 1959–2015: Canada: Founding member of University of Northern British Columbia and became its first Canada Research Chair in 2001 Mary C. Baltz: 1923–2011: USA: First woman soil scientist officially assigned in the field for NRCS Vera A. Baltz ...
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This is a list of people noted for their contribution to gardening, either by working as gardeners or garden designers, or by commissioning famous gardens. It does not include the innumerable people who count gardening among their hobbies.
Fictional farmers, persons engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials.The term usually applies to people who do some combination of raising field crops, orchards, vineyards, poultry, or other livestock.
The Department of Agriculture consists of 29 agencies and offices and has nearly 100,000 employees. In addition to agriculture, its areas of focus are natural resources, rural development and ...
The FAO Global Goodwill Ambassador, who are worldwide known celebrities from the worlds of arts, sports, literature, sciences and other fields of public importance. The FAO Special Goodwill Ambassador, who are high-level personalities usually from the field of research or science, who have excelled in an area relevant to the one for which they ...
Environmentalist Ellen Swallow Richards was the first woman admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an impressive feat in and of itself.What's even more admirable was her work in science, a field in which women faced many obstacles, as well as the time she spent getting her Ph.D. in chemistry from MIT– well, almost.
Technically, perhaps, an agrarian society is one in which agriculture is the leading vocation, whether for wealth, for pleasure, or for prestige – a form of labor that is pursued with intelligence and leisure, and that becomes the model to which the other forms approach as well as they may.