Month: August 2011

The Creation of World Poverty Part 2

Background In his book The End of Poverty: How We Can Make it Happen in Our Life Time, Jeffey Sachs, Director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University and director of the UN Millennium Project, tells us that ‘Western governments enforced draconian budget policies in Africa during the1980s and 1990s. The IMF and World Bank …

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Sustainable Agriculture Part 11

THE EARTHSCAN READER IN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE EDITED BY JULES PRETTY EARTHSCAN          2005 PART XI   PART V: PERSPECTIVES FROM DEVELOPING COUNTRIES   Perspective 23: Soil Recuperation in Central America: How Innovation was Sustained after Project Intervention by Roland Bunch and Gabino Lopez   Introduction Much has been said and written about the sustainability of agricultural …

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