Wilson Popenoe
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Wilson Popenoe son of Fred O. Popenoe and brother of Paul Popenoe
, was a United States Department of Agriculture
employee and plant explorer. From 1916 to 1924 Popenoe explored Latin America to look for new strains of avocado
s. He reported his adventures to the National Geographic. He became the chief agronomist of the United Fruit Company
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Paul Popenoe
Paul Popenoe was an American founding practitioner of marriage counseling. In his early years, he worked as an agricultural explorer and as a scholar of heredity, where he played a prominent role in the Eugenics movement of the early twentieth century.- Biography :Born as Paul Bowman Popenoe in...
, was a United States Department of Agriculture
United States Department of Agriculture
The United States Department of Agriculture is the United States federal executive department responsible for developing and executing U.S. federal government policy on farming, agriculture, and food...
employee and plant explorer. From 1916 to 1924 Popenoe explored Latin America to look for new strains of avocado
Avocado
The avocado is a tree native to Central Mexico, classified in the flowering plant family Lauraceae along with cinnamon, camphor and bay laurel...
s. He reported his adventures to the National Geographic. He became the chief agronomist of the United Fruit Company
United Fruit Company
It had a deep and long-lasting impact on the economic and political development of several Latin American countries. Critics often accused it of exploitative neocolonialism and described it as the archetypal example of the influence of a multinational corporation on the internal politics of the...
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