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1. The Earthscan Reader in Sustainable Agriculture

   By Jules Pretty Obe

   Series: Earthscan Reader Series

   Our agricultural and food systems are not meeting everyone's needs, and despite great progress in increasing productivity over the past century, hundreds of millions of people remain hungry and malnourished. This book describes a different form of agriculture: one founded more on ecological...

   Published July 31st 2005 by Routledge
2. The Pesticide Detox

   Towards a More Sustainable Agriculture

   By Jules Pretty Obe

   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...

   Published November 30th 2004 by Routledge
3. Agri-Culture

   Reconnecting People, Land and Nature

   By Jules Pretty OBE

   'Refreshingly fluent narrative, brimming full of stories and metaphors' Tim O'Riordan, University of East Anglia, UK 'A great balance between storytelling and analysis which points to the critical need for gaining control over resources' Jacqueline Ashby, CIAT, Colombia 'Full of supporting...

   Published July 31st 2002 by Routledge
4. The Living Land

   Agriculture, Food and Community Regeneration in the 21st Century

   By Jules Pretty Obe

   The Living Land sets out a new 'stakeholder' vision for rural regeneration in Europe. It integrates three themes: sustainable agriculture, localised food systems and rural community development. All three offer ways of rebuilding natural and social capital, and a large 'sustainability dividend' is...

   Published July 31st 1999 by Routledge