* Exposes the massive hidden health and environmental costs of rampant pesticide use * Presents an array of cheaper, safer alternatives to pesticides used by millions of farmers around the world * Written by leading international agricultural and biological scientists supported by The Global Integrated Pest Management Facility of the FAO
Since the 1960s the world??'s population has more than doubled and agricultural production per person has increased by a third, largely because of widespread pesticide use. Yet this growth in production has masked...
* Exposes the massive hidden health and environmental costs of rampant pesticide use * Presents an array of cheaper, safer alternatives to pestic...
Something is wrong with our agriculture and food systems. Despite great progress in increasing productivity in the last century, hundreds of millions of people remain hungry and malnourished. Can nothing be done or is it time for the expansion of another sort of agriculture, founded on more ecological principles, and in harmony with people, their societies and cultures?
Something is wrong with our agriculture and food systems. Despite great progress in increasing productivity in the last century, hundreds of millions ...
Something is wrong with our agriculture and food systems. Despite great progress in increasing productivity in the last century, hundreds of millions of people remain hungry and malnourished. Can nothing be done or is it time for the expansion of another sort of agriculture, founded on more ecological principles, and in harmony with people, their societies and cultures?
Something is wrong with our agriculture and food systems. Despite great progress in increasing productivity in the last century, hundreds of millions ...
Outlines a viable alternative to current agricultural practices which conserves resources, maintains rural employment and minimizes costs without loss of productivity. Using case studies from industrialized and developing nations, the text describes the te
Outlines a viable alternative to current agricultural practices which conserves resources, maintains rural employment and minimizes costs without loss...
The Living Land sets out a new 'stakeholder' vision for rural regeneration in Europe. It integrates three themes: sustainable agriculture, localised food systems and rural community development. All three offer ways of rebuilding natural and social capital, and a large 'sustainability dividend' is waiting to be released from current practices - creating more jobs, more wealth and better lives from less.
The Living Land sets out a new 'stakeholder' vision for rural regeneration in Europe. It integrates three themes: sustainable agriculture, localised f...
Agriculture Pollutes: pesticides can destroy wildlife and some are toxic to humans; some fungicides and herbicides cause cancer. Nitrates result in the contamination of drinking water and produce the risk of the ?blue-baby? syndrome in infants and of stomach cancer in adults. Agriculture produces methane, ammonia, nitrous oxide and the products of burning off, all of which add to the world's problems of acid rain, depletion of the ozone layer and global warming. This book, which focuses on the UK, the USA and Third World countries, is the first comprehensive review of agriculture and...
Agriculture Pollutes: pesticides can destroy wildlife and some are toxic to humans; some fungicides and herbicides cause cancer. Nitrates result in th...
Steffen Bohm Zareen Pervez Bharucha Jules N. Pretty
The world faces a 'perfect storm' of social and ecological stresses, including climate change, habitat loss, resource degradation and social, economic and cultural change. In order to cope with these, communities are struggling to transition to sustainable ways of living that improve well-being and increase resilience. This book demonstrates how communities in both developed and developing countries are already taking action to maintain or build resilient and sustainable lifestyles. These communities, here designated as 'Ecocultures', are exemplars of the art and science of sustainable...
The world faces a 'perfect storm' of social and ecological stresses, including climate change, habitat loss, resource degradation and social, econo...
Steffen Bohm Zareen Pervez Bharucha Jules N. Pretty
The world faces a 'perfect storm' of social and ecological stresses, including climate change, habitat loss, resource degradation and social, economic and cultural change. In order to cope with these, communities are struggling to transition to sustainable ways of living that improve well-being and increase resilience. This book demonstrates how communities in both developed and developing countries are already taking action to maintain or build resilient and sustainable lifestyles. These communities, here designated as 'Ecocultures', are exemplars of the art and science of sustainable...
The world faces a 'perfect storm' of social and ecological stresses, including climate change, habitat loss, resource degradation and social, econo...
