Book Review Introduction In Part 3 of A New Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations, Clive Ponting tells us that “Extensive deforestation has been a problem for a number of societies throughout history. Wood is the one readily available resource for heating, cooking and construction.” “The effects of …
Book Review Introduction In Part 2 of A New Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations, Clive Ponting tells us that “The best estimate for the total population of the world about 10,000 years ago, just before the adoption of agriculture in a few areas, was not more than …
THE EARTHSCAN READER IN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE EDITED BY JULES PRETTY EARTHSCAN 2005 PART XVI PART V: PERSPECTIVES FROM DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Perspective 27: Reducing Food Poverty by Increasing Agricultural Sustainability in Developing Countries by Jules Pretty, James Morison and Rachel Hine (Cont) Improvements in soil health and fertility Soil health is fundamental for agricultural sustainability, …
FEEDING THE TEN BILLION PLANTS AND POPULATION GROWTH L.T. EVANS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1998 PART V Chapter 5: Towards the First Billion (1500-1825) (Cont) 5.5 The Norfolk agricultural ‘revolution’ The Norfolk agricultural revolution exemplifies the complex inter-relations between population growth, industrialization and agricultural development. Its roots in England go back to the beginnings of enclosure …
THE EARTHSCAN READER IN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE EDITED BY JULES PRETTY EARTHSCAN 2005 PART XV PART V: PERSPECTIVES FROM DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Perspective 27: Reducing Food Poverty by Increasing Agricultural Sustainability in Developing Countries by Jules Pretty, James Morison and Rachel Hine Introduction Over the past 40 years, per capita world food production has grown by …
FEEDING THE TEN BILLION PLANTS AND POPULATION GROWTH L.T. EVANS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1998 PART 1V Chapter 5: Towards the First Billion (1500-1825) 5.1 Introduction: from subsistence to commercial farming Although there had been several bursts of population growth, e.g. following the Neolithic Revolution and in early medieval times, sustained rapid growth really began in …
THE EARTHSCAN READER IN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE EDITED BY JULES PRETTY EARTHSCAN 2005 PART XIV PART V: PERSPECTIVES FROM DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Perspective 26: Benefits from Agroforestry in Africa, with examples from Kenya and Zambia by Pedro A. Sanchez Agroforestry – integrating trees and other perennials into farming systems for the benefit of farm families and …
FEEDING THE TEN BILLION PLANTS AND POPULATION GROWTH L.T. EVANS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1998 PART 1II 4.7 Terracing the hills Although agriculture may have begun in the lowlands, population and other pressures soon led it into the hills, where the spread of farming was soon associated with the development of terrace agriculture. In the Mediterranean …
THE EARTHSCAN READER IN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE EDITED BY JULES PRETTY EARTHSCAN 2005 PART XIII PART V: PERSPECTIVES FROM DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Perspective 25: Lessons of Cuban Resistance by Peter Rosset and Martin Bourque At the Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First), we have spent 25 years studying hunger around the world, and its …
FEEDING THE TEN BILLION PLANTS AND POPULATION GROWTH L.T. EVANS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1998 PART 1I Chapter 3: Towards fifty Million (8000 BC – 2000 BC) 3.1 Introduction: From foraging to farming Adam Smith thought mankind passed through an age of hunters and then an age of shepherds before the ages of agriculture and of …
