Why the Green Revolution failed
John Naughton, 18 December 1980
Seeds of Plenty, Seeds of Want
by Andrew Pearse.
Oxford, 262 pp., £7.50, August 1980,0 19 877150 9 Show More
by Andrew Pearse.
Oxford, 262 pp., £7.50, August 1980,
Food First
by Francis MooreMoore Lappé and Joseph Collins.
Souvenir, 416 pp., £8.95, July 1980,0 285 64896 9 Show More
by Francis MooreMoore Lappé and Joseph Collins.
Souvenir, 416 pp., £8.95, July 1980,
“... be surprisingly efficient in terms of energy use, biological sustainability and other criteria. (Lappé and Collins point out, for example, that the equation of small-holdings with low productivity has as little global validity as the more conventional notion that ‘biggest is best.’) They are backed up, in many cases, by the accumulated experience of ... ”