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  • UNWELCOME HARVEST
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    UNWELCOME HARVEST
    GORDON R. CONWAY / JULES N. PRETTY
    Agriculture Pollutes: pesticides can destroy wildlife and some are toxic to humans; some fungicides and herbicides cause cancer. Nitrates result in the contamination of drinking water and produce the risk of the �blue-baby� syndrome in infants and of stomach cancer in adults. Agriculture produces methane, ammonia, nitrous oxide and the products of burning off, all of which add ...

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  • REGENERATING AGRICULTURE
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    REGENERATING AGRICULTURE
    JULES N. PRETTY
    For the past 50 years, the main goal of agriculture has been to increase production at any price, using high amounts of fertilizers and pesticides and intensive industrial methods. This has caused damage to the environment and widespread rural depopulation. This study shows that there is a viable alternative - a form of agriculture which conserves resources, maintains rural emp...

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  • THE PESTICIDE DETOX
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    THE PESTICIDE DETOX
    JULES N. PRETTY
    Since the 1960s, the world's population has more than doubled and agricultural production per person has increased by a third. Yet this growth in production has masked enormous hidden costs arising from widespread pesticide use - massive ecological damage and high incidences of farmer poisoning and chronic health effects. Whereas once the risks involved with pesticide use were ...

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  • SUSTAINABLE INTENSIFICATION
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    SUSTAINABLE INTENSIFICATION
    JULES N. PRETTY
    Continued population growth, rapidly changing consumption patterns and the impacts of climate change and environmental degradation are driving limited resources of food, energy, water and materials towards critical thresholds worldwide. These pressures are likely to be substantial across Africa, where countries will have to find innovative ways to boost crop and livestock produ...

    $4,000.00

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