1st Edition
Asking the Earth Farms, Forestry and Survival in India
244 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
The Other Side of History
The Sustainable Lifestyle of the Warlis
Red Ink in the 'Blueprint for Survival'
Technological Intervention
Farming Systems
Interconnections of Violence
Sa Vidya Ya Virniktaye!
The Bhagat and the Allopath
Natural Versus Formal Forestry
Celebrating Trees, Celebrating Life
Restoring our Future
Glossary of Plant Names
Index
Biography
Winin Pereira, Jeremy Seabrook
