THE BOTTOM BILLION WHY THE POOREST COUNTRIES ARE FAILING AND WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT PAUL COLLIER OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 2007 PART 1I PART 1: WHAT’S THE ISSUE Chapter 1: Falling Behind and Falling Apart: The Bottom Billion (Cont.) Traps, and the countries caught in them Suppose your country is dirt poor, almost …
FEEDING THE TEN BILLION PLANTS AND POPULATION GROWTH L.T. EVANS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1998 PART 1I Chapter 3: Towards fifty Million (8000 BC – 2000 BC) 3.1 Introduction: From foraging to farming Adam Smith thought mankind passed through an age of hunters and then an age of shepherds before the ages of agriculture and of …
THE CREATION OF WORLD POVERTY TERESA HAYTER Pluto Press in association with Third World First Second edition 1990 PART III Chapter 2: Extremes of Poverty and Wealth There is no lack of information on the extreme forms of deprivation which the majority of people in this world now suffer. Most but not all of …
THE CREATION OF WORLD POVERTY TERESA HAYTER Pluto Press in association with Third World First Second edition 1990 PART III Chapter 2: Extremes of Poverty and Wealth There is no lack of information on the extreme forms of deprivation which the majority of people in this world now suffer. Most but not all of …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
