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loss of sustainability or equitability. Such packages include Integrated Pest Man-
agement, multiple cropping, crop livestock polyculture, agroforestry, communal
resource use, communal water control, social forestry and integrated handcraft
manufacture.
The next step is to devise ways of incorporating these concepts, tools and pack-
ages into formal policy and project design in such a way that the trade-offs are
made explicit and accounted for in as rigorous a manner as is currently customary
for conventional economic analysis.
Acknowledgements
I am grateful for helpful comments from Richard Morris, Iain Craig, Tariq Husain
and Richard Sandbrook. I was ably assisted in the research by Jules Pretty. The
work was carried out under a grant from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
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