In Sekem: A Sustainable Community in the Egyptian Desert by Ibrahim Abouleish, we learn that: In 1977 the Sekem initiative was established with the setting up of agriculture, and over the years there followed commercial businesses, education centres and medical centres to complete the venture. Now Sekem has spread throughout Egypt. Many people, hearing about …
Book review In Part 4 of Feeding People is Easy, Colin Tudge points out that: “No society throughout history has regarded its agriculture simply as a business. Always people at large and the powers-that-be have felt that farming is in various ways special.” “Although farmers have commonly worked within a general atmosphere of free trade, …
Book review In Part 3 of Feeding People is Easy, Colin Tudge points out that: “Industrialized farming makes maximum use of mechanical power and industrial chemistry; and although industrial farming is the Johnny-come-lately, it is already commonly called ‘conventional farming’. It is conventional only insofar as it makes use of western methods, and is geared …
Book review In Part 2 of Feeding People is Easy, Colin Tudge points out that: “The task before us is to provide good food for everyone, forever; at the same time to create agreeable ways of life for farmers, and for everyone else involved in the food chain – and for all humanity; to do …
Book review In Feeding People is Easy, published in 2007, Colin Tudge points out that: “Food is the most pressing issue and the thing we absolutely have to get right. Get agriculture wrong, and everything else is compromised.” “The world population now stands at 6.4 billion (6400 million), of whom roughly 1 million are chronically …
EATING ANIMALS JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER BACK BAY BOOKS 2009 PART V Chapter 4: Hiding/Seeking (Cont.) 3. I am a factory farmer When people ask me what I do, I tell them I’m a retired farmer. I started milking cows when I was six. We lived in Wisconsin. My daddy had a small herd – fifty, …
THE WAY TO GREECE EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW FROM ANTIQUITY TO MODERN TIMES MARIA BELIVANI ELLINIKA GRAMMATA ATHENS 2004 PART II THE BIRTH OF DEMOCRACY Athens, the first democracy One of the most influential concepts of Ancient Greece has been that of democracy (Demos + Kratos = The power of the people). In …
THE END OF POVERTY HOW WE CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN IN OUR LIFE TIME JEFFREY SACHS PENGUIN BOOKS 2005 PART II Chapter 1: A Global Family Portrait (Cont.) Bangladesh: On the ladder of development A few thousand miles away from this perfect storm is another scene of poverty. This is poverty in retreat, …
