Book Review In part 4 of Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security: The Impact of Globalization we are told that: “’Free trade’ and ‘leveling the global playing field’ are illusions. Liberalisation is really nothing more than making it easier for powerful, elite interests to take control of a country’s economy. Over 70% of world trade is …
BRUCE LANSDALE HONORARY DOCTORATE PART 4 THE POWER OF MYTH IN RURAL DEVELOPMENT BY Bruce M. Lansdale MYTHS THAT INFLUENCE THE INDIVIDUAL What were the myths that had a major impact on the individual as he or she grew up during the first half of this century? Listen to a few experiences …
Book Review Introduction In part 1 of Manifestos on the Future of Food and Seed we learn that: “Slow Food, the movement that has put the culture of growing and eating good, healthy, diverse food at the heart of social, political, and economic transformation, brought together 5,000 members from 1,200 food communities in 130 countries.” …
Book Review In Part 3 of Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security: The Impact of Globalization we are told that: “When asked to support the global goal of food security, we can bask in the false belief that all humanity shares similar values and goals. We can pretend that the drift of the world’s food economy …
AMERICAN FARM SCHOOL BRUCE LANSDALE MEMORIAL PART IX Introduction On February 1, 1990 Bruce Lansdale was awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Agriculture by the Faculty of Agriculture of the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki. This is the second part of THE POWER OF MYTH IN RURAL DEVELOPMENT BY Bruce M. Lansdale POWER …
Book Review In Part 2 of Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security: The Impact of Globalization we are told that: “Across the world, family farmers who till their soil are being challenged by corporate agribusiness, in its – to date successful – efforts to remove culture from agriculture, approaching its ultimate goals, namely the total globalised …
AMERICAN FARM SCHOOL BRUCE LANSDALE MEMORIAL PART VIII Introduction On February 1, 1990 Bruce Lansdale was awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Agriculture by the Faculty of Agriculture of the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki. This is the first part of THE POWER OF MYTH IN RURAL DEVELOPMENT BY Bruce M. Lansdale INTRODUCTION …
Book review In Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security: The Impact of Globalization we are told that: “These three dimensions of ecological security, livelihood security and food security are the essential elements of an agriculture policy which is both sustainable and equitable.” “The current processes of globalisation threaten to undermine all three dimensions of sustainable agriculture.” …
AMERICAN FARM SCHOOL BRUCE LANSDALE MEMORIAL PART VII Introduction On February 1, 1990 Bruce Lansdale was awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Agriculture by the Faculty of Agriculture of the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki. This part of the Bruce Lansdale Memorial is the Introduction by Professor Lucas Ananikas, Chairman of the Department of Agricultural …
GOING LOCAL CREATING SELF-RELIANT COMMUNITIES IN A GLOBAL AGE MICHAEL H. SHUMAN Routledge 2000 The real work of planet-saving will be small, humble, and humbling, and (insofar as it involves love) pleasing and rewarding. Its jobs will be too many to count, too many to report, too many to be publicly noticed or …
