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Sustainable Agriculture Part 12

THE EARTHSCAN READER IN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE EDITED BY JULES PRETTY EARTHSCAN          2005 PART XII   PART V: PERSPECTIVES FROM DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Perspective 24: Sustainable Rural Life and Agroecology, Santa Catarina State, Brazil by Sergio Pinheiro   Summary and introduction This case study analyses and summarizes a sustainable development experience based on agroecology developed by the …

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The Bottom Billion Part 1

THE BOTTOM BILLION WHY THE POOREST COUNTRIES ARE FAILING AND WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT PAUL COLLIER OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS              2007 PART 1 Preface When I graduated I wanted to put my knowledge of economics to use in Africa. Africa’s new countries were ill-equipped, and scarcely any Africans had received the sort of education …

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Feeding the Ten Billion Part 1

FEEDING THE TEN BILLION PLANTS AND POPULATION GROWTH L.T. EVANS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS                  1998 PART 1 Back cover At the current rate of increase, the world’s population is likely to reach ten billion by the middle of the 21st century. What will be the challenges posed by feeding this population and how can they be …

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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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Index to Postings in July

INDEX TO POSTINGS IN JULY 2011 Outgrowing The Earth: The Food Security Challenge in an Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures by Lester R. Brown Part 4                                                                  July 1 The Ascent of Man by J Bronowski Part 9                                          July 2 Manifestos on the Future of Food and Seed Edited by Vandana Shiva Part …

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Master Farmer Part 12

MASTER FARMER TEACHING SMALL FARMERS MANAGEMENT BRUCE M. LANSDALE WESTVIEW PRESS                       1986 PART XII   Chapter 11: Teaching Competencies Why is it necessary to teach competencies? How should they be taught? What is the basis for deciding which skills to teach?   Hodja story #12 In Hodja’s village there was a Greek community with a …

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Outgrowing the Earth Part 10

OUTGROWING THE EARTH THE FOOD SECURITY CHALLENGE IN AN AGE OF FALLING WATER TABLES AND RISING TEMPERATURES LESTER BROWN EARTHSCAN          2005 PART X   Chapter 8: Reversing China’s Harvest Decline The phenomenal rise in China’s grain production from 90 million tons in 1950 to 392 million tons in 1998 was one of the great economic …

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