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Contents in Full

Part 1: Agrarian and Rural Perspectives

 

 

1. Albert Howard

Howard A. 1945. The Post War Task – from farming and Gardening for Health or Disease. Faber, London, pp 24-27. In Conford P. 1988. The Organic Tradition. Green Books, Devon

2. Aldo Leopold

Leopold A. 1949 Thinking like a mountain. In A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There. Oxford University Press, London and Ballantine Books, New York (1974 edition), pp 137-141

3. Wendell Berry

Berry W. 1986. The Unsettling of America. Sierra Club Books, San Francisco. Chapter 1 -  The Unsettling of America, pp 3-14

4. David Orr

Orr D. 1992. Ecological Literacy. SUNY Press, Albany, Chapter 7 Ecological Literacy, pp85-97

5. David Kline

Kline D. 1996. An Amish Perspective. In Vitek W and Jackson W (eds). Rooted in the Land: Essays on Community and Place. Yale University Press, Haven and London, pp 35-39

6. Wes Jackson

Jackson W. 1994. Becoming Native to this Place, pp53-60. Univ Press of Kentucky, Lexington

7. Cornelia Flora

 

Flora CB and Flora J L. 1996. Creating social capital. In Vitek W and Jackson W (eds). Rooted in the Land: Essays on Community and Place. Yale University Press, Haven and London, pp 217-225

Part 2: Agroecological Perspectives

 

1. Jules Pretty

Reality Cheques (chapter 3 of Agri-Culture) pp52-60 only

2. Erin Tegtmeier and Mike Duffy

Tegtmeier E and Duffy M. 2004. The external costs of agricultural production in the United States. Int. J. Agric. Sust. 2(1), 155-175

3. Steve Sherwood et al

Sherwood S, Cole D, Crissman Cand Paredes M. 2004. Transforming Potato Systems in the Andes. In Pretty J (ed). The Pesticide Detox. Earthscan, London, Chapter 10, pp 139-148, 153

4. Stephen Gliessman

Gliessman S. 2004. Agroecology and Agroecosystems. In American Society of Agronomy Monograph (Rickerl D and Francis C (eds.). Agroecosystem Analysis. Agronomy Monograph Series #43, pages 19-29

5. Gordon Conway

 

Conway, G R. 1997. The Doubly Green Revolution. Penguin, Hardmonsworth, Chapter 11, Controlling Pests, pp 205-218

Part 3: Social Perspectives

 

1. Robert Chambers

Chambers R. 1989. Reversals, institutions and change. In In Chambers R, Pacey A and Thrupp L A (eds). Farmer First. Farmer Innovation and Agricultural Research. IT Publications, London, pp 181-190, 193-195

2. Jules Pretty

Pretty J. 2003. Social capital and the collective management of resources. Science 302, 1912-1915

3. Richard Bawden

Bawden, R. 1991. Systems thinking and practice in agriculture. Journal of Dairy Science 74:2362-2373

4. Niels Roling

Röling N. 2000. Gateway to the global garden: Beta/Gamma Science for Dealing with Ecological Rationality. Eighth Annual Hopper Lecture, October 24, 2000, University of Guelph, Canada

5. Kevin Gallagher et al

Kevin Gallagher, Peter Ooi, Tom Mew, Emer Borromeo, Peter Kenmore and Jan-Willem Ketelaar. 2004. Ecological basis for low-toxicity integrated pest management (IPM) in rice and vegetables. In Pretty J (ed). The Pesticide Detox. Earthscan, London, Chapter 8

Part 4: Perspectives from Industrialised Countries

 

 

1. Jules Pretty

Pretty J. 2002. Landscapes lost and found. In Agri-Culture. Earthscan, London, Chapter 1, pp 1-26

2. Dana Jackson

Jackson D L. 2002. The farm as natural habitat, pp 13-26. In Jackson L L and Jackson D. The Farm as a Natural Habitat. 2002. Island Press, Washington

4. Tim Lang

Lang T and Heasman M. 2004. Diet and Health. Chapter 2.In Lang T and Heasman M. Food Wars. Earthscan, London, pp 47-60 & 96-97

4. Jack Kloppenburg

Kloppenburg J, Hendrickson J and Stevenbson G W. 1996. Coming to the foodshed. In Vitek W and Jackson W (eds). Rooted in the Land: Essays on Community and Place. Yale University Press, Haven and London, pp 113-123

Part 5: Perspectives from Developing Countries

 

1. Norman Uphoff

Uphoff N. 2002. The agricultural development challenges we face. In Uphoff N (ed). Agroecological Innovations. Earthscan, London, Chapter 1, pp3-20

2. Roland Bunch

Bunch R and Lopez G. 1999. Soil recuperation in Central America. In Hinchcliffe F, Thompson J, Pretty J N, Guijt I and Shah P. (eds). 1999. Fertile Ground: The Impact of Participatory Watershed Management. Intermediate Technology Publ, London, pp 32-41

3. Sergio Pinheiro

 

Pinheiro S L G, Cardoso A M, Turnes V, Schmidt W, Brito R and Guzzatti T. 2002. Sustainable rural life and agro-ecology, Santa Catarina State, Brazil. In El-Hage Scialabba N. and C. Hattam (eds.). Organic Agriculture, Environment and Food Security. Environment and Natural Resources Service Series no. 4, FAO, Rome, pp. 227-234

4. Peter Rosset

Rosset P and Bourque M. 2002. Lessons of Cuban resistance. In Funes F, Garcia L, Bourque M, Perez N and Rosset P (eds). Sustainable Agriculture and Resistance. Food First Books, Oakland CA, Introduction, pp xiv-xx

5. Pedro Sanchez

Benefits from agroforestry in Africa. In Uphoff N (ed). Agroecological Innovations. Earthscan, London, Chapter 8, pp 109-114

6. Jules Pretty et al

Pretty J, Morison J I L and Hine R E. 2003. Reducing food poverty by increasing agricultural sustainability in developing countries. Agric. Ecosys. Environ. 95(1), 217-234