OUTGROWING THE EARTH THE FOOD SECURITY CHALLENGE IN AN AGE OF FALLING WATER TABLES AND RISING TEMPERATURES LESTER BROWN EARTHSCAN 2005 PART VI Chapter 4: Raising the earth’s Productivity During the last half of the 20th century the world’s farmers more than doubled the productivity of their land, raising grain yield per hectare from 1.1 …
MASTER FARMER TEACHING SMALL FARMERS MANAGEMENT BRUCE M. LANSDALE WESTVIEW PRESS 1986 PART IX PART TWO: TRAINING THE MANAGERS The most significant common characteristic of the nikokiris, the master farmers, and the sergeants of agriculture is their competence as managers. The key task of development programs must therefore be to help peasants understand the concept …
THE EARTHSCAN READER IN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE EDITED BY JULES PRETTY EARTHSCAN 2005 PART VII PART IV: PERSPECTIVES FROM INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRIES Perspective 20: Diet and Health: Diseases and Food by Tim Lang and Michael Heasman Let Reason rule in man, and he dares not trespass against his fellow-creature, but will do as he would be …
Book Review MANIFESTOS ON THE FUTURE OF FOOD AND SEED EDITED BY VANDANA SHIVA SOUTH END PRESS 2007 PART IX THE MANIFESTOS PART TWO A NEW PARADIGM FOR SEED A post-industrial concept of seed and food production must take into account the failures, limitations, and vulnerability of industrial agriculture and corporate monopolies. It must be …
OUTGROWING THE EARTH THE FOOD SECURITY CHALLENGE IN AN AGE OF FALLING WATER TABLES AND RISING TEMPERATURES LESTER BROWN EARTHSCAN 2005 PART V Chapter 3: Moving Up the Food Chain Efficiently Throughout most of our 4 million years as a distinct species we lived as hunter-gatherers. The share of our diets that came from …
MASTER FARMER TEACHING SMALL FARMERS MANAGEMENT BRUCE M. LANSDALE WESTVIEW PRESS 1986 PART VIII Chapter 4: Dynamic Training Centers (Cont) What leads to excellence in an institution? What attributes should schools try to develop? Can the staff of institutions be both compassionate and businesslike? STANDARDS OF EXCELLENCE According to a Middle Eastern proverb, “The …
THE EARTHSCAN READER IN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE EDITED BY JULES PRETTY EARTHSCAN 2005 PART VI PART 3: SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES Perspective 15: Social Capital and Collective Management of Resources by Jules Pretty Introduction The proposition that natural resources need protection from the destructive actions of people is widely accepted. Yet communities have shown in the past …
Book Review Introduction In Part 8 of Manifestos on the Future of Food and Seed we learn that: “So far, only two GM traits have gained significant market share, one conferring resistance to a broad spectrum herbicide Roundup (RR) and another making plants poisonous to insects by means of a soil microbe Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt). …
MASTER FARMER TEACHING SMALL FARMERS MANAGEMENT BRUCE M. LANSDALE WESTVIEW PRESS 1986 PART VII Chapter 4: Dynamic Training Centers What leads to excellence in an institution? What attributes should schools try to develop? Can the staff of institutions be both compassionate and businesslike? Hodja story #5 One of Hodja’s neighbors complained bitterly to him …
Book Review THE EARTHSCAN READER IN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE EDITED BY JULES PRETTY EARTHSCAN 2005 PART V PART 3: SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES Perspective 14: The Hawkesbury Experience: Tales from a Road Less Travelled by Richard Bawden Introduction A quarter of century has now passed since the meeting at which the entire Agriculture School of 50-or so …
