THE EARTHSCAN READER IN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE EDITED BY JULES PRETTY EARTHSCAN 2005 PART IX PART V: PERSPECTIVES FROM DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Perspective 22: Rethinking Agriculture for New Opportunities by Erick Fernandes, Alice Pell & Norman Uphoff Over the last 30 years, the creation and exploitation of new genetic potentials of cereal crops, leading to what …
OUTGROWING THE EARTH THE FOOD SECURITY CHALLENGE IN AN AGE OF FALLING WATER TABLES AND RISING TEMPERATURES LESTER BROWN EARTHSCAN 2005 PART VII Chapter 5: Protecting Cropland On April 18, 2001, the western United States – from the Arizona border north to Canada – was blanketed with dust. The dirt came from a huge …
MASTER FARMER TEACHING SMALL FARMERS MANAGEMENT BRUCE M. LANSDALE WESTVIEW PRESS 1986 PART X PART TWO: TRAINING THE MANAGERS Chapter 5: The Planning Process (Cont.) Why is planning important in development? Can peasants really learn to plan? Is “leaving it to the gods” the most effective approach when there are so many unknowns? …
THE EARTHSCAN READER IN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE EDITED BY JULES PRETTY EARTHSCAN 2005 PART VIII PART V: PERSPECTIVES FROM DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Introduction to Part 5: Perspectives from Developing Countries by Jules Pretty The final section of this Reader in Sustainable Agriculture focuses on six perspectives from developing countries. These begin with an overview of …
MANIFESTOS ON THE FUTURE OF FOOD AND SEED EDITED BY VANDANA SHIVA SOUTH END PRESS 2007 PART X PART THREE SEEDS FOR THE FUTURE: BREEDING TOMORROW’S SEEDS Seeds embody the past and the future. The evolution of seeds in the future depends on our conserving the widest diversity of seeds and crop varieties to …
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 …
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 …
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). …
