In her book, Tequila: A Natural and Cultural History which she co-wrote with Gary Nabhan, she detailed her concerns that the demand for tequila and the industrialized approach to production have exposed the blue agave to dangers that could potentially lead to crop failure.
But taking a radical new approach to food production is not just the preserve of activists.
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So right through the end of World War II, the traditional approach to war production prevailed.
With this approach, smaller production runs of models can become viable.
Kagwanja says the military doesn't have the funding to revive the farms, and is taking a ruthless approach to increasing production of Zimbabwe's staple food, maize.
"Restarting the nation's nuclear industry and advancing small modular reactor technologies will help create new jobs and export opportunities for American workers and businesses, and ensure we continue to take an all-of-the-above approach to American energy production, " Energy Secretary Steven Chu said in a statement announcing Tuesday's decision.
Time tested economic theory tells us that in a free, unfettered market not constrained by onerous barriers to entry, the long term price of a commodity will approach its marginal cost of production.
Such an approach makes fuel and feedstock production facilities the focus of accounting, he suggests, while treating the CO2 emissions from fuel end-use at face value regardless of the origin of the fuel carbon (bio or fossil).
Samsung says this scaled-up approach will allow them to lower production costs relative to most LED manufacturers, which rely on sapphire, rather than glass substrates.
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An interview published last year in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists detailed how at age 88, he was working on a new approach to photovoltaic thin-film production that he said would allow factories to make enough solar panels in a year to produce at least one gigawatt of electricity annually roughly the scale of a nuclear power plant at the price of coal.
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Chrysler appears ready to take a very different approach, with Mr Manley eyeing local production, perhaps jointly with not-yet-defined partners.
Rather than an everybody-gets-one-vote democratic approach to governing the means of economic production, we are left with a structure based on the idea that whoever owns the most has the most right to run the company.
They came up with an approach they believed could be used for mass production.
Ann Veneman, Mr Bush's agriculture secretary, suggested a more sensible approach to farm support, unlinking subsidies from production and focusing more on the environment.
This President is committed to an all-of-the-above approach in our energy development, which means increasing production here at home, a focus on natural gas and its importance for our energy future, as well as investments in clean energy.
But former Fox studio head Bill Mechanic, who now runs his own production company, Pandemonium Films, doesn't approve of this approach.
He also has pursued very aggressively an all-of-the-above approach to our energy needs that includes increasing domestic oil production, that includes increasing domestic natural gas production as well as clean energy technologies.
At best, the Obama administration's approach to U.S. domestic oil and gas production can be characterized as a strategy of ambivalence, an uneasy equilibrium between desire to lessen the role of fossil fuels and the reality of their necessity in a functioning U.S. economy.
Indeed, Kylie's restored popularity even reportedly led to an approach to star as Anna in the London West End stage production of The King and I.
So this President will continue to push for an all-of-the-above energy approach that ensures that we aggressively pursue domestic oil and gas production, that we aggressively pursue renewable energy production and make the investments necessary to secure our future.
Because an all-of-the-above energy approach requires and necessitates that we aggressively expand domestic oil and gas production in a safe and responsible way.
Yet marketers often use the same old approach to digital: Spend a small percentage of the budget on production and a really big percentage on media.
So as you know, the President has from the beginning supported an all-of-the-above approach to our energy challenges that includes expanding domestic oil and gas production.
Without this approach, groupthink, overly vocal members or real or perceived hierarchy will suppress (production block) the most promising out of the box ideas.
Recommendations include moving beyond an approach of validating and integrating indigenous knowledge, towards embracing knowledge co-design and co-production that bring scientists and indigenous knowledge holders together on an equitable and mutually-respectful basis.
And that is the approach the President has taken, which is why he has taken measures to increase domestic oil production, why he has passed the significant car rule, which will ensure that more fuel-efficient cars are rolling off the assembly line and populating the highways and streets of our country.
Falling production, and a shift away from natural gas fields to combined oil and gas deposits, means that this approach is no longer possible.
Clearly, a government-only approach would be highly unlikely to deliver as any cursory examination of government-only innovation and production elsewhere shows.
One approach could be to develop drugs that can bind tightly to the receptors on immune cells and induce the production of the anti-inflammatory IL-10.
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