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). …
OUTGROWING THE EARTH THE FOOD SECURITY CHALLENGE IN AN AGE OF FALLING WATER TABLES AND RISING TEMPERATURES LESTER BROWN EARTHSCAN 2005 PART IV Chapter 2: Stopping at Seven Billion (Cont.) The demographic bonus In contrast to these countries whose future is fading, countries that have quickly reduced birth rates are benefiting from what economic demographers …
THE END OF POVERTY HOW WE CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN IN OUR LIFE TIME JEFFREY SACHS PENGUIN BOOKS 2005 PART X Chapter 12: On-the-Ground Solutions for Ending Poverty (Cont.) INTERNATIONAL DONORS AND VILLAGES LIKE SAURI The international donor community should be thinking round the clock about one question: how can the Big Five …
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 …
MASTER FARMER TEACHING SMALL FARMERS MANAGEMENT BRUCE M. LANSDALE WESTVIEW PRESS 1986 PART VI Chapter 3: The Farm School Model (Cont) Are there dimensions to agricultural schools other than training programs? Is there a place for adult education in secondary agricultural schools? What are the most useful methods in management training? THE YEARS …
OUTGROWING THE EARTH THE FOOD SECURITY CHALLENGE IN AN AGE OF FALLING WATER TABLES AND RISING TEMPERATURES LESTER BROWN EARTHSCAN 2005 PART III Chapter 2: Stopping at Seven Billion In early 2003, UN demographers announced that the HIV/AIDS epidemic has reduced life expectancy for the 700 million people of sub-Saharan Africa from 62 to 46 …
MASTER FARMER TEACHING SMALL FARMERS MANAGEMENT BRUCE M. LANSDALE WESTVIEW PRESS 1986 PART V Chapter 3: The Farm School Model Are there dimensions to agricultural schools other than training programs? Is there a place for adult education in secondary agricultural schools? What are the most useful methods in management training? Hodja story #4 …
THE END OF POVERTY HOW WE CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN IN OUR LIFE TIME JEFFREY SACHS PENGUIN BOOKS 2005 PART IX Chapter 12: On-the-Ground Solutions for Ending Poverty The end of poverty will require a global network of cooperation among people who have never met and who do not necessarily trust each other. One …
MASTER FARMER TEACHING SMALL FARMERS MANAGEMENT BRUCE M. LANSDALE WESTVIEW PRESS 1986 PART IV Chapter 2: A Society in Transition Why is the Greek village significant as a model for development? Are there similarities between the attitudes of rural people in Greece and those in Third World countries? How do peasant attitudes relate to …
