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

Landcare and Livelihoods 275 conservation practices – almost half the adopters were not landcare members and over 20 per cent of ...

276 Governance and Education intensification. The main institution mediating access to resources had been DAR, allocating equal- ...

Landcare and Livelihoods 277 activities, along with the degree of contact and support from landcare facilitators (including farm ...

278 Governance and Education Ongoing investment to maintain and expand the stock of bridging social capital was clearly needed. ...

Landcare and Livelihoods 279 enhance the human capital of the farming popu lation through practical, farmer- led training and ex ...

280 Governance and Education Chambers R. 1987. Sustainable Livelihoods, Environ ment and Development: Putting Poor Rural People ...

14 Conserving Communities Wendell Berry In October of 1993, the New York Times announced that the United States Census Bureau wo ...

282 Governance and Education Throughout the 1980s, the Champion International Corp. went on a tree-cutting binge in Montana, lev ...

Conserving Communities 283 is plain enough, and we have ignored it for too long: the great, centralized eco- nomic entities of o ...

284 Governance and Education These people see nothing odd or difficult about unlimited economic growth or unlimited consumption ...

Conserving Communities 285 disregard. They are alike even in their plea that it is right to damage the present in order to make ...

286 Governance and Education good; it ought to be satisfying and dignifying to the people who do it, and genu- inely useful and ...

Conserving Communities 287 10 Make sure that money paid into the local economy circulates within the com- munity for as long as ...

288 Governance and Education going to increase. Growers in the Central Valley of California, for example, can no longer depend o ...

Conserving Communities 289 resources, money, talent and people out of our countryside with very little if any return, and often ...

15 Becoming an Agroecologist Through Action Education Geir Lieblein, Edvin Østergaard and Charles Francis Introduction Education ...

Becoming an Agroecologist Through Action Education 291 work with in the educational arena. Mezirow emphasized the need to critic ...

292 Governance and Education From Teaching to Learning One important reason for students to come to the university is to learn s ...

Becoming an Agroecologist Through Action Education 293 beyond itself ’ (Dewey, 1916). His basic idea, learning by doing and refl ...

294 Governance and Education Another important dimension of education is learning the power of visioning. In the quest for susta ...