Deltas are especially vulnerable to climate change given their low-lying location and
exposure to storm surges, coastal and fluvial flooding, sea level rise and subsidence …

Given the central role of the food and agriculture system in driving so many of the connected
ecological, social and economic threats and challenges we currently face, Rethinking Food …

In the twenty-first century, agriculture and rural life is seen as a relic of the past. In the
Western world, a tiny minority of people are still farmers—most of whom are indebted or …

Some studies consider the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) method of rice production as
more profitable than the Conventional method. Others, however, claim that there is no …

There are two paths to the future of our food and farming. The path of life is based on
cocreation with nature and her principles of diversity, giving back and sharing the Earth's …

When James Lovelock put forth the Gaia hypothesis in the early 1970s, it was questioned
and ridiculed. Lovelock dared to fight back and called his critics “dogmatic crusades” and …

Abstract Svetlana Alexievich's Voices from Chernobyl: An Oral History of Nuclear Disaster
(1997) presents how the age of anthropocene is driving the earth towards an imminent peril …

1 We are part of nature, not separate; 2 We are not superior to other species; 3 Nature, her
soil, her plants and animals are living; 4 All living beings are sentient, self‑organised and …

This thesis is an ethnographic study of Navdanya Biodiversity Conservation Farm, and their
critique of the industrial agriculture and food system that focuses on agricultural …

Early groups of hunter-gatherer humans figured out how to take care of the plants that fed
them and kept them alive. A large population led to centralized systems of governance and …