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 …
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 …
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 …
BRUCE LANSDALE HONORARY DOCTORATE PART 4 THE POWER OF MYTH IN RURAL DEVELOPMENT BY Bruce M. Lansdale MYTHS THAT INFLUENCE THE INDIVIDUAL What were the myths that had a major impact on the individual as he or she grew up during the first half of this century? Listen to a few experiences …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
