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

Contents xi

VOLUME IV POLICIES, PROCESSES AND

INSTITUTIONS

List of Acronyms and Abbreviations xiii

Editorial introduction to Volume IV 1

Part I Ethics and Systems Thinking

1 The Land Ethic 15
A. Leopold
2 Four Principles of Natural Farming 29
M. Fukuoka
3 Knowing Systems and the Environment 34
R. Bawden
4 Agricultural Sustainability: What It Is and What It Is Not 52
P. B. Thompson
5 Learning and Mislearning 69
R. Chambers

Part II Participatory Processes

6 Reversals, Institutions and Change 93
R. Chambers
7 Participatory Learning for Sustainable Agriculture 109
J. Pretty
8 Past, Present and Future 136
J. D. Van der Ploeg
9 Diversifying Rice-based Systems and Empowering Farmers in
Bangladesh Using the Farmer Field School Approach 184
M. Barzman and S. Desilles
10 New Meanings for Old Knowledge: The People’s Biodiversity
Registers Programme 194
M. Gadgil, P. R. S. Rao, G. Utkarsh, P. Pramod, A. Chhatre and members
of the People’s Biodiversity Initiative

Part III Governance and Education

11 From Extension to Communication for Innovation 217
C. Leeuwis