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Sustainable Agriculture Part 13

THE EARTHSCAN READER IN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE EDITED BY JULES PRETTY EARTHSCAN          2005 PART XIII   PART V: PERSPECTIVES FROM DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Perspective 25: Lessons of Cuban Resistance by Peter Rosset and Martin Bourque At the Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First), we have spent 25 years studying hunger around the world, and its …

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The Bottom Billion Part 2

THE BOTTOM BILLION WHY THE POOREST COUNTRIES ARE FAILING AND WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT PAUL COLLIER OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS              2007 PART 1I PART 1: WHAT’S THE ISSUE   Chapter 1: Falling Behind and Falling Apart: The Bottom Billion (Cont.) Traps, and the countries caught in them Suppose your country is dirt poor, almost …

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Feeding the Ten Billion Part 2

FEEDING THE TEN BILLION PLANTS AND POPULATION GROWTH L.T. EVANS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS                  1998 PART 1I Chapter 3: Towards fifty Million (8000 BC – 2000 BC) 3.1 Introduction: From foraging to farming Adam Smith thought mankind passed through an age of hunters and then an age of shepherds before the ages of agriculture and of …

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Sustainable Agriculture Part 12

THE EARTHSCAN READER IN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE EDITED BY JULES PRETTY EARTHSCAN          2005 PART XII   PART V: PERSPECTIVES FROM DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Perspective 24: Sustainable Rural Life and Agroecology, Santa Catarina State, Brazil by Sergio Pinheiro   Summary and introduction This case study analyses and summarizes a sustainable development experience based on agroecology developed by the …

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The Bottom Billion Part 1

THE BOTTOM BILLION WHY THE POOREST COUNTRIES ARE FAILING AND WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT PAUL COLLIER OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS              2007 PART 1 Preface When I graduated I wanted to put my knowledge of economics to use in Africa. Africa’s new countries were ill-equipped, and scarcely any Africans had received the sort of education …

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Feeding the Ten Billion Part 1

FEEDING THE TEN BILLION PLANTS AND POPULATION GROWTH L.T. EVANS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS                  1998 PART 1 Back cover At the current rate of increase, the world’s population is likely to reach ten billion by the middle of the 21st century. What will be the challenges posed by feeding this population and how can they be …

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The Creation of World Poverty Part 2

Background In his book The End of Poverty: How We Can Make it Happen in Our Life Time, Jeffey Sachs, Director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University and director of the UN Millennium Project, tells us that ‘Western governments enforced draconian budget policies in Africa during the1980s and 1990s. The IMF and World Bank …

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