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