The Organic Farming Sourcebook
By
CLAUDE ALVARES
Published
by Other India Press in association with Third World Network
ISBN:
81-85569-46-0
Year:
2009 No. of pages: 464
ABOUT THE BOOK
Written
and designed to excite and stimulate your interest in organic farming,
this sourcebook will take you to every aspect of the subject:
•
You will encounter surprising details about the traditions of raising
food in India
and the equally amazing traditions of generously sharing it;
•
You will learn about the techniques through which farmers have maintained
the vitality, fertility and life of the soil over forty centuries;
•
You will have access to hundreds of innovative and pioneering organic
farmers who long ago deserted the ‘green’ revolution and its barbaric
technology of mass-kill;
•
You will get an opportunity to understand and digest the fundamental
principles of various organic farming systems from the best of the class;
•
You will also have access to what the government is now doing to promote
organic farming within the country;
•
You will find addresses of green shops where you can access organically
grown food;
•
For the intellectual there are severe critiques of the ‘green’ revolution
and how it came to be imposed on this country. For the activist, there
is a history of organic farming and addresses of individuals and institutions
that are promoting it as part of India’s efforts to revert to sustainable
agriculture.
ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
CLAUDE
ALVARES is Director of the Central Secretariat of the Organic
Farming Association of India, located in Goa, India.
Contents
1.
The Food Traditions of India
2.
The Traditions of Raising Food
3.
The Green Revolution: Painful Harvest
4.
Genetic Terrorism
5.
India’s Organic Farming Movement: A History
6.
Principles of Organic Farming
7.
Organic Seed
8.
Go Mata Returns
9.
Directory of Organic Farms, Farmers and Promoters
10.
Organic Stores
11.
Learning Organic Agriculture
12.
Organic Asia
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