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Asking the Earth: Farms, Forestry and Survival in India: Natural Resource Management Set

Autor Winin Pereira, Jeremy Seabrook
en Limba Engleză Hardback – oct 2009
The need to produce food without the destructive chemical horrors of much modern farming, for an intelligent use of dwindling natural resources and for humane forms of production is universal, the practice is limited.
This book is an account of one, large, instance of success in practice. Twenty-five years ago, Winin Pereira, a nuclear physicist abandoned academia to start a co-operative farm at Alonde in a tribal area north of Bombay. The group experienced, and finally discarded, all the false hopes and promises of Western originated forms of development: ploughs that ploughed too deep, irrigation systems that lowered water tables, fertilizers and pesticides which managed the earth and became so expensive that poorer farmers were dispossessed. Instead they learnt from the adivasai, or tribal people, who have nurtured or been nurtured by foresets for millennia, ways of applying popular knowledge to contemporary problems. This book is a combination of Pereira's record of achievement of sustainable livelihoods and an account of the farm and its effect on the India around it by a leading British journalist. Originally published in 1991
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ISBN-13: 9781849710169
ISBN-10: 1849710163
Pagini: 244
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Natural Resource Management Set

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

AcknowledgementsForewordIntroductionThe Other Side of HistoryThe Sustainable Lifestyle of the WarlisRed Ink in the 'Blueprint for Survival'Technological InterventionFarming SystemsInterconnections of ViolenceSa Vidya Ya Virniktaye!The Bhagat and the AllopathNatural Versus Formal ForestryCelebrating Trees, Celebrating LifeRestoring our FutureGlossary of Plant NamesIndex