Poverty

The End of Poverty Part 4

THE END OF POVERTY HOW WE CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN IN OUR LIFE TIME JEFFREY SACHS PENGUIN BOOKS              2005 PART IV   Chapter 3: Why Some Countries Fail to Thrive Of the world’s population of 6.3 billion, roughly 5 billion people have reached at least the first rung of economic development. Five sixths of …

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Future Food & Seed Part 2

Book Review Introduction In Part 2 of Manifestos on the Future of Food and Seed we learn that: “Almost all of the next one billion of net global growth will take place in urban slums. What will these conditions breed for the future? Hopelessness, crime, extremism, terrorism? Who will deal with these chickens when they …

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Sustainable Agriculture Part 4

Book Review In part 4 of Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security: The Impact of Globalization we are told that: “’Free trade’ and ‘leveling the global playing field’ are illusions. Liberalisation is really nothing more than making it easier for powerful, elite interests to take control of a country’s economy. Over 70% of world trade is …

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Sustainable Agriculture Part 3

Book Review In Part 3 of Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security: The Impact of Globalization we are told that: “When asked to support the global goal of food security, we can bask in the false belief that all humanity shares similar values and goals. We can pretend that the drift of the world’s food economy …

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Lansdale Honarary Doctorate Part 3

AMERICAN FARM SCHOOL BRUCE LANSDALE MEMORIAL PART IX Introduction On February 1, 1990 Bruce Lansdale was awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Agriculture by the Faculty of Agriculture of the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki. This is the second part of THE POWER OF MYTH IN RURAL DEVELOPMENT   BY   Bruce M. Lansdale POWER …

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Sustainable Agriculture Part 2

Book Review In Part 2 of Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security: The Impact of Globalization we are told that: “Across the world, family farmers who till their soil are being challenged by corporate agribusiness, in its – to date successful – efforts to remove culture from agriculture, approaching its ultimate goals, namely the total globalised …

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Lansdale Honorary Doctorate Part 1

AMERICAN FARM SCHOOL BRUCE LANSDALE MEMORIAL PART VII Introduction On February 1, 1990 Bruce Lansdale was awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Agriculture by the Faculty of Agriculture of the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki. This part of the Bruce Lansdale Memorial is the Introduction by Professor Lucas Ananikas, Chairman of the Department of Agricultural …

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Farmers of 40 Centuries

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 …

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