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

17 Rethinking Agriculture for New Opportunities Erick Fernandes, Alice Pell and Norman Uphoff Over the last 30 years, the creati ...

404 Modern Agricultural Reforms methods can be very productive with now-better-understood scientific bases. Where economically j ...

Rethinking Agriculture for New Opportunities 405 South Asia, most words for agriculture derive from the Sanskrit word for plough ...

406 Modern Agricultural Reforms components of farming systems are likely to produce limited results unless the interdependence o ...

Rethinking Agriculture for New Opportunities 407 Developing an adequate knowledge base for more productive and sustainable agric ...

408 Modern Agricultural Reforms lacks periodic cultivation. This view is reflected in reports from early colonial administrators ...

Rethinking Agriculture for New Opportunities 409 While farmers have long appreciated that agriculture is an enterprise best con- ...

410 Modern Agricultural Reforms economic returns to labour or to capital, but it does not necessarily increase the returns to la ...

Rethinking Agriculture for New Opportunities 411 production that cannot be explained simply by the inputs applied, an increase r ...

412 Modern Agricultural Reforms and engineering, agricultural science should capitalize on the analogous and even more powerful ...

Rethinking Agriculture for New Opportunities 413 recuperative powers of plants and animals as well as the activity of beneficial ...

414 Modern Agricultural Reforms study, giving quick, precise and replicable results, which point to simple remedies. The results ...

Rethinking Agriculture for New Opportunities 415 enhanced as soil organic matter content increases. Research shows the benefits ...

416 Modern Agricultural Reforms more attractive and feasible options, providing water supplies in situ. We should also understan ...

Rethinking Agriculture for New Opportunities 417 people depend for much of their sustenance. Or perhaps it reflects a lack of in ...

418 Modern Agricultural Reforms There is no reason to believe that the elements of ‘modern’ agriculture are wrong, but neither i ...

Rethinking Agriculture for New Opportunities 419 5 This is discussed by Chambers (1997, especially p47). While rice, wheat and m ...

420 Modern Agricultural Reforms and available to deal with any new increases in pest populations. Keeping sufficient organic mat ...

Rethinking Agriculture for New Opportunities 421 References Acharya M S 1997. ‘Integrated vermiculture for rural development’, I ...

422 Modern Agricultural Reforms Krishna A 1997. Participatory watershed development and soil conservation in Rajasthan, India, i ...