Agricultural practices in northern Sudan have been changing rapidly but remain little documented. In this paper we aim to investigate changes to crops grown in living memory and their uses through interviews with Nubian farmers on the island of Ernetta. By exploring cultivation and crop processing practices, together with associated material culture and foodstuffs, we also seek to explore how agricultural and food heritage are connected, and to better understand reasons for crop changes. Several cereals and pulses that were previously important subsistence crops are now grown as comparatively minor crops. The replacement of the sagia (waterwheel) by diesel pump irrigation, the introduction of commercial crops, and the reduction of the annual flood have led to fundamentally new cropping patterns within household farms. At the same time, each species has its own narrative and timing of change. Shifts in crops grown are paralleled by transitions in foodways, associated material culture, and land use. The project is timely, as much of the information about past crop uses resides in the memories of elderly farmers. The findings highlight the broader global need to document endangered memories of cropping patterns, traditional ecological and food knowledge, including local terms for foods and crops.

苏丹北部的农业实践一直在迅速变化，但鲜有记载。在本文中，我们旨在通过采访埃内塔岛上的努比亚农民来调查人们记忆中种植的作物及其用途的变化。通过探索种植和作物加工实践，以及相关的物质文化和食品，我们还寻求探索农业和食品遗产之间的联系，并更好地了解作物变化的原因。以前是重要的自给作物的几种谷物和豆类现在作为相对较小的作物种植。sagia的更换（水车）柴油泵灌溉、经济作物的引进和每年洪水的减少导致家庭农场内出现了全新的种植模式。同时，每个物种都有自己的叙述和变化的时间。种植作物的变化与食物方式、相关物质文化和土地利用的变化相平行。该项目是及时的，因为有关过去作物用途的大部分信息都存在于老年农民的记忆中。研究结果强调了更广泛的全球需要记录关于种植模式、传统生态和食品知识的濒危记忆，包括食品和作物的当地术语。