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.” …
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 …
Book review In Part 3 of Earth in the Balance: Ecology and Human Spirit, Senator Al Gore tells us in Chapter 3: Climate and Civilization: A Short History, that: “Perhaps it can be said that civilization has passed the formative stage and has reached a mature configuration, a worldwide community or global village.” “Is our …
FARMERS OF FORTY CENTURIES OR PERMANENT AGRICULTURE IN CHINA, KOREA AND JAPAN F. H. KING, D. Sc. RODALE PRESS 1911 F. H. KING, D. Sc. F. H. King was formerly Professor of Agricultural Physics in the University of Wisconsin and Chief of Division of Soil Management, US Department of Agriculture. He was author of …
Book review In Part 6 of Feeding People is Easy, Colin Tudge points out that: “Poor countries are hopelessly trapped. The World Trade Organisation which is supposed to provide a level playing field for all is in reality controlled by the richest governments which in turn are beholden to corporates. On the other hand, if …
Book review In Part 5 of Feeding People is Easy, Colin Tudge points out that: “Economic growth – rise in GDP – has become the prime index not simply of “progress” but of “development”: an even grander concept. Traditional farms do not make as much money as factories and call-centres and sweatshops may do and …
SEKEM A SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY IN THE EGYPTIAN DESERT IBRAHIM ABOULEISH FLORIS BOOKS 2004 PART II Chapter 2: Return to Egypt (Cont.) My heart tries to understand I continued to work with anthroposophy and became acquainted with its practical applications in many areas of life. I repeatedly found life changing solutions presenting themselves after intense …
In Sekem: A Sustainable Community in the Egyptian Desert by Ibrahim Abouleish, we learn that: In 1977 the Sekem initiative was established with the setting up of agriculture, and over the years there followed commercial businesses, education centres and medical centres to complete the venture. Now Sekem has spread throughout Egypt. Many people, hearing about …
Book review In Part 4 of Feeding People is Easy, Colin Tudge points out that: “No society throughout history has regarded its agriculture simply as a business. Always people at large and the powers-that-be have felt that farming is in various ways special.” “Although farmers have commonly worked within a general atmosphere of free trade, …
Book review In Part 3 of Feeding People is Easy, Colin Tudge points out that: “Industrialized farming makes maximum use of mechanical power and industrial chemistry; and although industrial farming is the Johnny-come-lately, it is already commonly called ‘conventional farming’. It is conventional only insofar as it makes use of western methods, and is geared …
