Podcast: Farming Shaped the Rise and Fall of Empires in Cambodia
Beneath the country's troubled history with the Khmer Rouge lies a complex agricultural legacy that reaches back centuries
Smithsonian Magazine | 12 February 2016
In this episode of the Generation Anthropocene
podcast, scientists and students explore the ways a prolonged El Niño
brought drought and increased conflict to Cambodia, and how the ruthless
Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge looked back to the temples at Angkor Wat
and their proud agricultural heritage to motivate the atrocities of the
Cambodian genocide.
Producer Miles Traer speaks with mental health and water science
experts to see how hundreds of years of agriculture have shaped the
region. Traer shares his own thoughts on the relationship between food
and conflict, and how he sees the standard historical narrative breaking
down within Cambodia's borders.
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