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Sustainable Agriculture Part 15

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 …

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Feeding the Ten Billion Part 4

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 …

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The Future of Food & Seed Part 10

MANIFESTOS ON THE FUTURE OF FOOD AND SEED EDITED BY VANDANA SHIVA SOUTH END PRESS                       2007 PART X PART THREE SEEDS FOR THE FUTURE: BREEDING TOMORROW’S SEEDS   Seeds embody the past and the future. The evolution of seeds in the future depends on our conserving the widest diversity of seeds and crop varieties to …

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Sustainable Agriculture Part 1

THE EARTHSCAN READER IN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE EDITED BY JULES PRETTY EARTHSCAN          2005 PART I   PART I: AGRARIAN AND RURAL PERSPECTIVES   Introduction to Part 1: Agrarian and Rural Perspectives by Jules Pretty Part 1 of this Reader in Sustainable Agriculture focuses on seven agrarian and rural perspectives on agricultural sustainability by Albert Howard, Aldo …

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Future Food & Seed Part 4

Book Review Introduction In Part 4 of Manifestos on the Future of Food and Seed we learn that: “This manifesto is the outcome of a joint effort among participants in the meetings of the International Commission on the Future of Food, held in late 2002 and early 2003 in Tuscany, Italy.” “We urge people and …

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