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 …
THE BOTTOM BILLION WHY THE POOREST COUNTRIES ARE FAILING AND WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT PAUL COLLIER OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 2007 PART 1V PART 2: THE TRAPS Chapter 3: The Natural Resource Trap Conflict is not the only trap. A much more paradoxical trap has been the discovery of valuable natural resources in …
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 STORY OF MAN AN INTRODUCTION TO 150,000 YEARS CARROLL & GRAF 2007 PART V Chapter 10: The Birth of India Around 1500 BC, an invading people entered India from the north-west. They were pastoral nomads with light skins, and they called themselves Aryans. For several centuries after their arrival, these Aryans continued with a …
THE CREATION OF WORLD POVERTY TERESA HAYTER Pluto Press in association with Third World First Second edition 1990 PART V Chapter 5: The Europeans Get Ahead The questions that need to be answered, then, are why, from about 1500 onwards, prodigious advances began to take place in Europe, and why the situation elsewhere deteriorated. …
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 …
THE BOTTOM BILLION WHY THE POOREST COUNTRIES ARE FAILING AND WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT PAUL COLLIER OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 2007 PART 1II PART 2: THE TRAPS Chapter 2: The Conflict Trap ALL SOCIETIES HAVE CONFLICT; it is inherent to politics. The problem that is pretty distinctive to the bottom billion is not political …
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 STORY OF MAN AN INTRODUCTION TO 150,000 YEARS OF HUMAN HISTORY CYRILL AYDON CARROLL & GRAF 2007 PART IV Chapter 9: The Rise and Fall of Rome Alexander the Great’s conquests spread Greek influence around the Eastern Mediterranean and South-west and Central Asia, as far as northern India, where his soldiers finally forced …
THE CREATION OF WORLD POVERTY TERESA HAYTER Pluto Press in association with Third World First Second edition 1990 PART IV Chapter 4: The Past is not Irrelevant It is very hard to understand the present situation of underdeveloped countries without some reference to their past. The accumulation of wealth in Europe and North America, and …
