Sustainable Agriculture and Food: Four volume set (Earthscan Reference Collections)

Our Vanishing Genetic Resources 163 more, but the urgency of the situation demands much more vigorous action than has been gener ...

164 Early Agriculture on – originated in Latin America outside of the US, and were introduced, some by Indians and some by Europ ...

Our Vanishing Genetic Resources 165 that not only corn but also every major crop we grow has a very narrow genetic base. The ent ...

166 Early Agriculture There may be some question as to how well the original collections of the Vavilovian era have been maintai ...

Our Vanishing Genetic Resources 167 Notes 1 Vavilov N. I. 1926. Studies on the Origin of Cultivated Plants. Institute of Applied ...

7 Oriental Despotism K. Wittfogel The characteristics of hydraulic economy are many, but three are paramount. Hydraulic agricult ...

Oriental Despotism 169 a. Large-scale preparatory operations (Purpose: irrigation) The combined agricultural activities of an ir ...

170 Early Agriculture In ancient Mesopotamia even watchful rulers could not completely prevent the inundations from damaging the ...

Oriental Despotism 171 for 45 days until, after 180 days, the job was completed.^23 From 1881 on, at a time of decay and disinte ...

172 Early Agriculture From the standpoint of the historical effect, it makes no difference whether the heads of a hydraulic gove ...

Oriental Despotism 173 ‘big’ enterprises which employ them. The hydraulic demand is satisfied by adult peasant males, who contin ...

174 Early Agriculture The need for reallocating the periodically flooded fields and determining the dimension and bulk of hydrau ...

Oriental Despotism 175 of the population throughout the year, no major problem arises. The inhabitants of the Nile and Ganges Va ...

176 Early Agriculture the fertility-bearing rivers as closely as possible, and in doing so they had to find ways of draining the ...

Oriental Despotism 177 terms – the distance from Berlin to Bordeaux or from Hamburg to Rome. For labour on part of this gigantic ...

178 Early Agriculture ‘Deep dugouts excavated under the huts, and often leading into underground pas- sages with outlets at some ...

Oriental Despotism 179 Roads were a serious concern of India’s vigorous Maurya kings.^73 A ‘royal road’ of 10,000 stadia, which ...

180 Early Agriculture The efforts required to build all these great highways have attracted much less attention than the finishe ...

Oriental Despotism 181 to build great hydraulic works in the early days of his power; and in the course of his reign he complete ...

182 Early Agriculture contained no less than 40 temples.^102 The great number of labourers engaged in building this palace- and ...