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

Index 533

waterbodies 435, 463
waterholes 18
watersheds 407
Weatherford, Jack 43
weeds 240–1
welfare dependency, Innu 108, 110
Wellhausen, Edwin 292, 293
wells 18
West Zhou Dynasty, China 210
wheat
collectivization 332
crop rotation 238–9
experimental technology 272–4, 279–80
Green Revolution 290, 293–5, 298–301
industrial farming 314
‘wild’ resources 2–3
see also country food
wildlife programmes 83–4
Wilson, M.L. 313–14
windbreak system, China 471
Wittfogel, Karl 6, 168–96
woad 243
women 25, 27, 48, 54, 123
see also gender issues
Woodburn, James 48, 54–5
woody species 425–6
see also trees
working life, Bushmen 24–7, 28–9
see also employment; labour
World Food Program, United Nations 28
World Trade Organization (WTO) 493

worldview of foragers 46–7

WTO see World Trade Organization

Xia Dynasty, China 209, 210

Xi’an eco-village 432

Xu Guangqi 215–16

Yaney, George 317, 320

Yangtze River Basin 459–71

Yaqui people 147

yardland measure 245

yield growth

monoculture 410

new opportunities 403

take-off points 290–2, 299–301, 303–4

Yoeme rituals 147

Young, Arthur 240, 249, 260, 267–8

books 265

experimentation 271–2, 275–8, 283

tours 262–3

young people 24, 116

see also children

Young’s Farmers’ Kalendar 266

Yuan Dynasty, China 214–15

Yucheng eco-county 442–6

Zambia 477, 481, 487, 492–3

Zhangxi’s household ecosystem 427–8

Zhong Gongfu 218

Zimbabwe 476–7, 482, 487, 492–5, 497, 499–

500