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Mark Bomford is the director of the Yale Sustainable Food Program. Prior to his arrival at YSFP, he was the founding director of the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at the University of British Columbia, where he launched an interdisciplinary program and a thriving 60-acre teaching and research farm on campus. In this interview, Bomford discusses the history of the Yale Sustainable Food Project and its transformation into a university program; James C. Scott and YSFP; the interaction and collaboration between the Agrarian Studies Program and YSFP; and the importance of Agrarian Studies in the discussion of food politics on campus.

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Title
Mark Bomford: Reflections on James C. Scott and the Program in Agrarian Studies at Yale University
Creator
Bomford, Mark, interviewee
Holmes, Todd, interviewer
Published
Berkeley, CA, Oral History Center, 2021
Full Collection Name
Natural Resources, Land Use, and the Environment Oral Histories Individual Interviews
Subject (Topic)
Natural Resources, Land Use, and the Environment
Education, University of California
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The Bancroft Library Oral History Center
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Mark Bomford, "Mark Bomford: Reflections on James C. Scott and the Program in Agrarian Studies at Yale University" conducted by Todd Holmes in 2018, Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 2021.
Interview date(s) 2018
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