522 Sustainable Agriculture and Food
field-centred agriculture 404–12
genetic manipulation 416–17
Green Revolution 290–307, 403–4
innovations 270
latitude relationship 225
meta–land-use systems 354, 356–7
non-chemical protection 412–13
rainfall 225–6
rotation 227–8, 235–6, 238–41, 243, 274–7
Russian collectivization 332
vulnerability 164–5
see also grain crops; plant foods
cross-breeding programmes 292–4, 297, 301
cross-disciplinary approaches 347–8
CSA see community-supported agriculture
CSP see Conservation Security Program
Culley, George 262, 268, 270, 272
cultivation, definition 513–15
cultivation–breeding homestead gardens 425–7
‘cultural blind spots’ 149–50
cultural diversity 137, 149, 150–3
cultural revolutions 309–10, 323
culture
language relationship 86
preserving and restoring 148–9
‘curse of Babel’ 140–1
czarist Russia 308–9, 316–20
Daly, Richard 4, 41–72
Darwinism 3
Davis Inlet, Labrador 107, 109, 121–2
Davis, Thomas 252
Dazu eco-county 447–53
decision-making capacities 495–6
deconstruction of hunter-gatherers 92
defence structures 177–8, 182–4
Defoe, Daniel 261
deforestation rates 339–40, 344–60
degraded lands
ASB consortium 347, 359
eco-villages 432
intensification pathways 342–4
knowledge loss 147
modernization effects 375
population growth 1
United States 378
Yangtze River Basin 462
delayed-return societies 48, 55
demand in open-field farming 252–3
Democratic Republic of Congo 478, 491
demographic factors 23–4, 241–3
see also population density/growth
demonstration sites, IFS 446
Deng kou Bureau 456–7
density of population see population density
deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) 476
depression 120
designing eco-villages 434
despotism 168–96
developing countries 111, 290–307, 490
see also individual countries; resource-poor
regions
development agencies 393–6
development framework of ASB 346, 348
development of rural society 1–2, 468
diabetes 117, 128
dialogue 502–3, 505–7, 512–13, 514–15
see also participation
dichotomies 90–7
diet selectivity 21–3
diffusion of innovations 260–1, 267–8, 270, 284
direct incentives 220
diseases
crops 282–3, 303, 412–13
Kung Bushmen 27
physical activity 120
sedentarization consequences 117, 128
dispersion/concentration of band societies 45, 48
dissemination activities 446, 491–2, 499–500
divergence of hunter-gatherers 48–9
diversity
biocultural 136–7
biological 137–42, 149–53, 339–40, 358–9
cultural 137, 149–53
developing countries 490
genetic resources 6, 159–60, 164, 166
linguistic 137–42, 149–53
technology adaptation 259, 269
division of labour 168–73, 323–4
DNA discovery 476
Dobe area, Botswana 18, 28–9
see also Kung Bushmen
DOMAIN potential mapping 350–1
domestication 159, 241–8
drainage experiments 282
drills for sowing 277–8
drinking water 174–5, 182–3, 229
droughts 28–9
ducks 216, 217, 448–9
Dust Bowl disaster 11, 378
dwarf crop varieties 290, 294–5, 297, 301, 305
dyke-pond system 214–15, 217
dynamic hunter-gatherer interactions 50
Eastern coast region, China 451
eating, act of 509
Eaton, Stanley 65
eco-agriculture models 448–9
eco-counties 441–53
ecological benefits of IFS 440–1, 450
Ecological Demonstrative Rebuilding for
Sustainable Settlements (EDRSS) 431
ecologies
hunter-gatherers 53–4, 58–9
linguistic 141–2
open-field farming 235–7, 241–4, 248, 251–3
see also agro-ecological farming systems
economics
benefits of IFS 440–1, 450
deforestation rates 344, 347, 358–61
farm survival rates 504–5
open-field farming 237, 241–4, 248–9, 251–
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see also fundraising