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Asking the Earth - Farms, Forestry and Survival in India (Hardcover) Loot Price: R4,217
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Asking the Earth - Farms, Forestry and Survival in India (Hardcover): Winin Pereira, Jeremy Seabrook

Asking the Earth - Farms, Forestry and Survival in India (Hardcover)

Winin Pereira, Jeremy Seabrook

Series: Natural Resource Management Set

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The need to produce food without the destructive chemical horrors of much modern farming, for an intelligent use of dwindling natural resources and for humane forms of production is universal, the practice is limited. This book is an account of one, large, instance of success in practice. Twenty-five years ago, Winin Pereira, a nuclear physicist abandoned academia to start a co-operative farm at Alonde in a tribal area north of Bombay. The group experienced, and finally discarded, all the false hopes and promises of Western originated forms of development: ploughs that ploughed too deep, irrigation systems that lowered water tables, fertilizers and pesticides which managed the earth and became so expensive that poorer farmers were dispossessed. Instead they learnt from the adivasai, or tribal people, who have nurtured or been nurtured by foresets for millennia, ways of applying popular knowledge to contemporary problems. This book is a combination of Pereira's record of achievement of sustainable livelihoods and an account of the farm and its effect on the India around it by a leading British journalist. Originally published in 1991

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Imprint: Earthscan
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Natural Resource Management Set
Release date: October 2009
First published: 1990
Authors: Winin Pereira • Jeremy Seabrook
Dimensions: 234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 978-1-84971-016-9
Categories: Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Development studies
Books > Professional & Technical > Environmental engineering & technology > General
Books > Professional & Technical > Agriculture & farming > Agricultural science
Books > Professional & Technical > Agriculture & farming > Forestry & silviculture: practice & techniques
Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Primary industries > Agriculture & related industries
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LSN: 1-84971-016-3
Barcode: 9781849710169

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