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The Southwest Center
1052 North Highland Ave.
P.O.Box 210185
Tucson, AZ 85721-0185
Tel: (520) 621-2484
Fax: (520) 621-9922
Department Director
Joseph Wilder
1052 North Highland Ave.
P.O.Box 210185
Tucson, AZ 85721-0185
Tel: (520) 621-2484
Fax: (520) 621-9922
jwilder@email.arizona.edu
Welcome to the Southwest Center
The Southwest Center seeks to define, illuminate, and present, through research, teaching, and publishing, the character of the Greater Southwest: the heartland of Arizona, New Mexico, Sonora, and Chihuahua, and its peripheries.
Department News
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Early on a Saturday morning in August, 20 sustainable agriculture enthusiasts packed in to the Sonoita-Elgin Fire Station to learn how to bring native pollinators into the neighborhood. We fueled up on caffeine and mesquite coffee cake (courtesy of Annie Silverman) in preparation for an hour of lecture. First we heard from Gary Nabhan about the importance of pollinators in our food system and in...
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The Southwest Center’s Kellogg Program in Sustainable Food Systems By: Gary Nabhan, Maribel Alvarez, Jeffrey Banister, and Regina Fitzsimmons Welcome to the food system of the U.S.-Mexico border —the geopolitical boundary with the greatest economic disparity in the world. Stories written and spoken about this unnatural rift in the landscape are the stuff of myth, literary leaping...
