A NEW GREEN HISTORY OF THE WORLD THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE COLLAPSE OF GREAT CIVILISATIONS CLIVE PONTING VINTAGE BOOKS 2007 PART XV Chapter 11: The Weight of Numbers (Cont.) Water The intensification of food production and the huge increase in output in the last two centuries have been partially achieved by a massive increase in …
A NEW GREEN HISTORY OF THE WORLD THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE COLLAPSE OF GREAT CIVILISATIONS CLIVE PONTING VINTAGE BOOKS 2007 PART XIV Chapter 11: The Weight of Numbers (Cont.) Soil erosion In almost every part of the world modern agriculture has led to severe soil erosion in the wake of deforestation, ploughing up of grasslands …
A NEW GREEN HISTORY OF THE WORLD THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE COLLAPSE OF GREAT CIVILISATIONS CLIVE PONTING VINTAGE BOOKS 2007 PART XIII Chapter 11: The Weight of Numbers (Cont.) Agriculture and the environment The huge increase in the amount of land under cultivation, the extension of pasture land into new areas and the intensification of …
FEEDING THE TEN BILLION PLANTS AND POPULATION GROWTH L.T. EVANS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1998 PART XV 12.8 What chance a brown revolution? The ‘Green Revolution’ has particularly benefited crop production in areas with irrigation or a sufficient and reliable enough rainfall to guarantee returns on inputs such as fertilizers. The spread of modern varieties into …
A NEW GREEN HISTORY OF THE WORLD THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE COLLAPSE OF GREAT CIVILISATIONS CLIVE PONTING VINTAGE BOOKS 2007 PART XII Chapter 11: The Weight of Numbers (Cont.) Agriculture in the developing world The recent agricultural history of the developing world has been very different from that of the industrialized world. These countries had …
FEEDING THE TEN BILLION PLANTS AND POPULATION GROWTH L.T. EVANS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1998 PART XIV Chapter 12: Feeding the Ten Billion (Cont.) 12.5 Old and new crops We are an exploratory, inventive species, fascinated by the new, dispensing with the old. So ‘new’ crops attract optimistic headlines while old ones are often blamed for …
STOLEN HARVEST THE HIJACKING OF THE GLOBAL FOOD SUPPLY VANDANA SHIVA SOUTH END PRESS 2000 PART 1II Chapter 2: Soy Imperialism and the Destruction of Local Food Cultures Chapter 3: The Stolen Harvest under the Sea Chapter 4: Mad Cows and Sacred Cows Chapter 5: The Stolen Harvest of Seed For more than 10,000 …
EATING ANIMALS JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER BACK BAY BOOKS 2009 PART VII Chapter 4: Influence/Speechlessness (Cont.) The life and death of a bird The second farm I saw with C was set up in a series of twenty sheds, each 45 feet wide by 490 feet long, each holding in the neighborhood of 33,000 birds. …
FEEDING THE TEN BILLION PLANTS AND POPULATION GROWTH L.T. EVANS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1998 PART XIII Chapter 12: Feeding the Ten Billion 12.1 Introduction: routes to greater food production The world must develop the capacity to feed the ten billion within the next 40-50 years, predominantly within Asia and Africa. There are two quite separate …
STOLEN HARVEST THE HIJACKING OF THE GLOBAL FOOD SUPPLY VANDANA SHIVA SOUTH END PRESS 2000 PART 1I Chapter 1: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply (Cont.) Creating hunger with monocultures Global chemical corporations, recently reshaped into “life sciences” corporations, declare that without them and their patented products, the world cannot be fed. Industrial agriculture …
