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Vandana Shiva’s Rebuttal to Green Revolution Scientist
M S Swaminathan is India’s Normon Burlag, who introduced green revolution to India in the 1960s as a part of the strategy to deal with hunger. The result has not been any less hunger, but generally degraded food production system. He is now claiming that the route to food security lies in introducing genetically modified [...]
Greening the desert
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S6kTlz6Mk4
Pune uses human excreta for biogas and urine for liquid fertilizer
Read this CSE report about innovative initiative to convert human wastes into methane gas for cooking and liquid fertilizer for farming.
Centre for Environment, India’s grim analysis of ongoing droughts
You might want to check in with this CSE report on serious drought unfolding all over India. But it was more than monsoon that was to blame, it argues. The change in the cropping practices from the ones suited to the local climates to the ones dictated by the arrival of green revolution technologies including [...]
ScribeFiring my sustainability blog
The AjamvariFarm blogging had slowed down a bit. Blame on me, but it was also my laziness to figure out the best way of posting. Now that I have discovered scribefire, it’s going to be regular, at least three in a week, but expect more. My writings will focus on issues of sustainability, good life, [...]
What does it require to build a viable food system
quick answer: living soil and living farming communities. These two are the invaluable nuggets I gleaned from reading Wendel Berry. Michael Pollan in his recent post on the New York Times gives credit to Wendel Berry for bringing about transformed consciousness within North America about local, sustainable, viable food production, living systems. My friend Tom [...]
Food and the world
I finished reading Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food today. Pollan effect is great, and it has made me ever more determined to go back home as soon as possible and re-sume (!!!!) what my mind/soul/body is craving–to do gardening/farming. It was heartening to receive an email from Cynthia Watts of Samata School in Jorpati [...]
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I appreciate your interest. Here, I will try to be meaningful in very ordinary sense. My approach is to be simple without being simplistic, and to be pleasing without being gaudy. Isn’t that what ordinariness in nature all about? How else do we explain, for instance, the near-perfectness with with a rainbow presents itself to [...]