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Civilization & the Life of the Soil Part 3

OUT OF THE EARTH CIVILIZATION AND THE LIFE OF THE SOIL DANIEL HILLEL UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS                       1991 PART 3   PART II: THE NATURE OF SOIL AND WATER Chapter 3: The fertile Substrate Chapter 4: The Vital Fluid Chapter 5: The Dynamic Cycle Chapter 6: The Primary Producers Chapter 7: The Tenuous Balance   …

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The Botany of Desire Part 3

THE BOTANY OF DESIRE A PLANT’S-EYE VIEW OF THE WORLD MICHAEL POLLAN BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING    2001/2003 PART 3   Chapter 1: Desire: Sweetness. Plant: The Apple (Cont) William Ellery Jones is a fifty-one-year-old fund-raising consultant and amateur historian with a dream: to establish a Johnny Appleseed heritage Center and Outdoor Theater on a hillside outside Mansfield. …

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Food First Part 13

FOOD FIRST BEYOND THE MYTH OF SCARCITY FRANCES MOORE LAPPE & JOSEPH COLLINS HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON                          1977 PART 13 Chapter 48 What Can We Do? Question: If you say that it is all up to the underdeveloped countries themselves, then what role is left for us? The basic message of Diet for a Small …

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Food First Part 12

FOOD FIRST BEYOND THE MYTH OF SCARCITY FRANCES MOORE LAPPE & JOSEPH COLLINS HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON                          1977 PART 12 PART X: FOOD FIRST   Chapter 44: What Does Food Self-Reliance Mean? Question: throughout this book you have mentioned food self-reliance. What does food self-reliance mean and how can it be achieved? Our Response: Achieving …

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Food First Part 11

FOOD FIRST BEYOND THE MYTH OF SCARCITY FRANCES MOORE LAPPE & JOSEPH COLLINS HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON                          1977 PART XI Chapter 12: Isn’t Colonialism Dead? Question: It may be true that colonialism impaired people’s ability to feed themselves. But most of the underdeveloped countries have been independent for ten to twenty years, or even longer. …

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Food First Part 10

FOOD FIRST BEYOND THE MYTH OF SCARCITY FRANCES MOORE LAPPE & JOSEPH COLLINS HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON                          1977 PART X Chapter 11. Why Can’t People Feed Themselves? (Cont.) Plantations A second approach was direct takeover of the land either by the colonizing government or by private foreign interests. Previously self-provisioning farmers were forced to cultivate …

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Food First Part 9

FOOD FIRST BEYOND THE MYTH OF SCARCITY FRANCES MOORE LAPPE & JOSEPH COLLINS HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON                          1977 PART IX Chapter 8: Does Ignorance Breed Babies? Chapter 9: Sophisticated Fatalism? Chapter 10: Controlling Births or Controlling the Population?   PART III: COLONIAL INHERITANCE Chapter 11. Why Can’t People Feed Themselves? Question: You have said that …

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