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In this, the final of three reports, I focus on several themes, including early agriculture and modern farming, foodways and the often associated festivals or celebrations that commemorate them. I will also cover other ground, mentioning a number of disparate works that have appeared in the past year or two that occupy the intersection of ecology and cultural landscape study. As I discussed in the two previous reports, the themes and topics found at this site shift over time. Of the three mentioned in the title, food gathering and production are long-standing staples in ecology and cultural landscape studies. Food as focus of nature/culture interactions is more recent, but still has a time depth of several decades. Festivities have enjoyed some attention by cultural geographers since at least Kniffen's (1951) work on agricultural fairs. For the most part, however, the topic is a new one, associated with, if not always approached from, poststructuralist perspectives. I Agriculture and its originsAmong the most venerable and still vital research topics within the cultural landscape and ecology domain is the question of agriculture's origins and development. Figures such as Humboldt, Darwin, de Candolle, Vavilov and Sauer were, at various times and intensities, attracted to the search for agriculture's origins and diffusions. From the point of view of our postprocessual present, it may seem a dated project; a relic of diffusionist thinking or, more recently, a marginal concern within a synchronic-systemic cultural ecology. Therefore, it may come as a mild surprise that work on plant and animal domestication and dispersals proceeds apace with probably more rather than less participants. The participation of cultural geographers, however, has not been as central as it once was. Archaeologists and paleoecologists are the main actors, and the new directions in research generally reflect this. Two recent volumes illustrate this, and

No decorrer das últimas três décadas, a história ambiental se tornou um subcampo reconhecido com seus próprios clássicos, um grande número de monografias notáveis, um fluxo contínuo de artigos publicados e mais do que mil pesquisadores ativos em vários continentes, incluindo uma comunidade crescente na América Latina. Um olhar para além dos limites disciplinares da história mostra que há também outras tradições que se enquadram perfeitamente na temática. A geografia histórico-cultural da Escola de Berkeley sob a égide de Carl Sauer talvez seja uma dessas perspectivas alternativas conhecidas. Muitos estudos de Sauer, seus alunos e colaboradores podem ser considerados pesquisas em história ambiental; muitas delas se baseiam em matérias sobre a América Latina. Neste artigo, procuramos traçar o desenvolvimento dessa corrente alternativa para a história ambiental que se iniciou com a tese de doutoramento de Carl Sauer em 1915 e se consolidou nos anos 50, tendo sua continuidade no presente através dos trabalhos de diversos geógrafos.

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This report is the first of three in a survey of recent work by geographers and their counterparts on cultural landscapes and ecology. Depending on definition and direction these rubrics could, or perhaps should, encompass much of what is being done by cultural geographers as well as those working on questions of human±environment or society±nature relations beyond the bounds of the categories culture and landscape. My core concern here, however, will be to present and comment on studies of cultural landscapes informed by ecological methods and perspectives. Much of this production falls within the purview of cultural ecology or its offshoots such as political ecology and various cognate fields including historical ecology, environmental history, landscape archaeology and landscape ecology. If this prospectus is less than ecumenical, it should still allow for looking at a wide range of material coming out of various traditions, camps and exploratory ventures that lay claims to these terms' terrain. Given that the topics`cultural landscapes and ecology' (in tandem) have not been previously featured in these progress reports, a bit of mapping of what has come before might be useful. It will also require mentioning some publications prior to 1995 to set the stage for the past two years. In the first annual volume of Progress in Geography (1969±76), precursor to its current bifurcation along human and physical lines, Harold Brookfield (1969) wrote on`The environment as perceived'. Cultural ecology per se received scant mention, and cultural landscape none at all. During this period Brookfield (1964) was concerned to move beyond the Berkeley school's fielding of cultural landscape studies and on to more systemic and nomothetic pursuits. In the third volume O'Riordan (1971) reported on`Environmental management', a category that has enjoyed some 17 surveys since 1977 under the same and variant titles in Progress in Human Geography. A sampling of titles and authors includes:`Natural resources and their management' * c Arnold 1998 0309±1325(98)PH186PR