Comments on: Brown Food Revolution http://neuroanthropology.net/2010/07/08/brown-food-revolution/ For a greater understanding of the encultured brain and body... Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:12:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Christine http://neuroanthropology.net/2010/07/08/brown-food-revolution/#comment-12727 Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:11:42 +0000 http://neuroanthropology.net/?p=5277#comment-12727 Hear, hear! I worked at an eminent international NGO last summer, and was delighted that the same benefactors that support Alliance for a Green Revolution in Agriculture (AGRA, http://www.agra-alliance.org/) are also experimenting with *conservation agriculture,* a technique specifically aimed at revitalizing soils through “minimal soil disturbance, permanent soil cover and crop rotations.” (http://www.fao.org/ag/ca/)

Proof of grants here: http://is.gd/dAzVe

More excellent anthropology on the value of intensified, smallholding farming from Robert McNetting in the stupendous and readable Smallholders, Householders: Farm Families and the Ecology of Intensive, Sustainable Agriculture. http://is.gd/dAAja

Sorry I haven’t learned to put my links in live… soon will do!

And thank you for this post. I have friends who work with that NGO to improve soil conditions in Tanzania, and the more people know how important this is, the better.

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