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

Contents ix

VOLUME III AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS

List of Acronyms and Abbreviations xiii

Editorial introduction to Volume III 1

Part I The Global Food System

1 The Environmental and Social Costs of Improvement 15
J. Pretty
2 The Performance of Low External Input Technology in
Agricultural Development: A Summary of Three Case Studies 59
R. Tripp
3 The Politics of Food: An Introduction 75
M. E. Lien
4 The System of Rice Intensification (SRI): A Challenge for Science,
and an Opportunity for Farmer Empowerment Towards Sustainable
Agriculture 88
A. Mishra, M. Whitten, J. W. Ketelaar and V. M. Salokhe
5 The Struggle to Govern the Commons 116
T. Dietz, E. Ostrom, and P. C. Stern

Part II Poverty and Hunger

6 Words and Ideas: Commitment, Continuity and Irreversibility 137
R. Chambers
7 Well-being and Ill-being: The Good and the Bad Life 169
D. Narayan, R. Chambers, M. K. Shah and P. Petesch
8 Who Will Feed China? 190
L. Brown
9 Introduction to Ecoagriculture 203
J. McNeely and S. Scherr
10 Resource-conserving Agriculture Increases Yields in Developing Countries 209
J. Pretty, A. D. Noble, D. Bossio, J. Dixon, R. E. Hine,
F. W. T. Penning de Vries^ and J. I. L. Morison^