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

Resource-conserving Agriculture Increases Yields in Developing Countries 217 we did not adjust ETp for new crops or lengthened c ...

218 Poverty and Hunger being made in these 286 projects to carbon sink increases in soils and trees, using established carbon au ...

Resource-conserving Agriculture Increases Yields in Developing Countries 219 Impacts on pesticide use Integrated Pest Management ...

220 Poverty and Hunger systems usually require increased use of herbicides for weed control (de Freitas, 1999), though there are ...

Resource-conserving Agriculture Increases Yields in Developing Countries 221 referees for their helpful comments. The research w ...

222 Poverty and Hunger Kijne J W, Barker R and Molden D. (eds). 2003. Water Productivity in Agriculture: Limits and Oppor- tunit ...

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11 Whole Diets E. Balfour In the Introduction to his book, The Wheel of Health,^1 Dr Wrench makes this thought-provoking stateme ...

226 Diet and Health ignorance of the subject is still so deep that we can hardly claim scientifically to know what health is. Th ...

Whole Diets 227 in themselves; vitamins as things in themselves; but whether these can be things in themselves and are not reall ...

228 Diet and Health The Hunza valley is a gorge running east and west cleft in a towering moun- tain range. It is arid in summer ...

Whole Diets 229 also better and follows the ‘immemorial custom of the Far East’. Unusual care is also taken to protect their dri ...

230 Diet and Health A fondness for skin is an outstanding feature of the Hunza, they do not peel their vegetables, or wash and s ...

Whole Diets 231 So far the main differences between the Hunza diet and our own seems to be that the Hunza foods are all natural ...

232 Diet and Health so large an area had to be carried across the face of one of these precipices. The Alps contain no Wasserlei ...

Whole Diets 233 that could be eaten. There was no such thing as offal. They also made the carcasses gamey by hanging for weeks a ...

234 Diet and Health In this crisis Hindhede decided that a drastic reduction in the livestock must be made. So some four-fifths ...

Whole Diets 235 It is also interesting as a counterweight to Hindhede and other nutritionists who plump for the excellent lacto- ...

236 Diet and Health and have derived their food supplies from the agency stores. In addition to muscle cuts of meat they have, t ...