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		Agriculture has become unbalanced: the land is in revolt: diseases of all kinds are on the increase: in many parts of the world Nature is removing the worn-out soil by means of erosion.
		The agricultural practices of the Orient have passed the supreme test--they are almost as permanent as those of the primeval forest, of the prairie or of the ocean.
		An examination of the areas which feed the population and the machines of a country like Great Britain leaves no doubt that the soil is no longer able to stand the strain.
	gutenberg.net.au /ebooks02/0200301.txt (21045 words)

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		Agricultural Missions, Inc. is organizing a Delegation to attend the Nairobi world Social Forum and visit with rural women farmers in Kenya and Uganda.
		With the Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund (FSC/LAF), AMI requested support for an effort to assist homeowners and landowners in East Biloxi to preserve their ownership rights and prevent the loss of land through unfair and unethical means.
		Agricultural Missions, Inc. is a 501(C) (3) tax exempt organization whose mission is to facilitate sustainable models of development by supporting the efforts of grassroots and non-governmental organizations in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean and the United States.
	www.agriculturalmissions.org (780 words)

	ZNet \| Activism \| In Praise Of Cowdung (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Both materially an conceptually the world of Indian agriculture has built its sustainability on maintaining the integrity of the cow, considering her inviolable and sacred, seeing her as the mother of the prosperity of food systems.
		The agricultural practices of the Orient have passed the supreme test - they are almost as permanent as those of the primeval forest, of the prairie, or of the ocean.
		The agricultural Testament is a record of practices that had maintained the soil fertility of India over centuries.
	www.zmag.org /content/Activism/shiva_cowdung.cfm (1460 words)

	Organic Crop Production Overview
		However, this extreme representation of organic agriculture was quickly taken up by critics who tried to characterize all of organic agriculture as soil depleting and unproductive.(10) To counter this, current standards for certified organic production require an "organic plan" outlining the use of soil building activities and natural pest management.
		An example of a basic agronomic rotation, typical of that found on midwestern organic farms, is shown in Figure 2.
		An example of this is found in the publication Organic and Conventional Farming Compared, published in 1980, by the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology.
	www.attra.org /attra-pub/organiccrop.html (12425 words)

	Albert Howard
		He worked for 25 years as an agricultural investigator in India, first as Agricultural Adviser to States in Central India and Rajputana, then as Director of the Institute of Plant Industry at Indore, where he developed the famed Indore composting process, which put the ancient art of composting on a firm scientific basis.
		This is Howard's follow-up to An Agricultural Testament, extending its themes and serving as a guide to the new organic farming movement as it unfolded -- and encountered opposition from the chemical farming lobby and the type of agricultural scientists Howard referred to as "laboratory hermits".
		Her subject is nothing less than the life cycle studied as a whole, and this leads inevitably to the importance of a reformed agriculture for the health of the community.
	www.navdanya.org /events/howard.htm (1692 words)

	CONQUER DISEASE -- THROUGH AGRICULTURAL LAW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He is on the staff of the Ohio Agriculture Experiment Station, and, as reported in Sugar for June, 1944, he was called in by the sugar growers to tell them what was the matter with their beet fields.
		that soil fertility on an individual farm can be so depleted through failure to return manure, crop residues and other enriching elements as to change that farm within a single human generation from a place of good health to one of deficiency diseases for the farm animals and for the families that live upon it.
		Waksman clearly and dogmatically states that: “A decrease in the organic matter content of the soil accompanies soil deterioration and is in itself a cause for further deterioration of the soil, whereas an increase of the content of organic matter and nitrogen is a symbol of soil improvement” (ibid., p.
	www.giveshare.org /Health/conquerdisease.html (3008 words)

	History of organic farming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is also largely the history of the organic movement, which began as an insiders group of agricultural scientists and farmers, and later expanded to become a grassroots consumer cause.
		From 1905 to 1924, he worked as an agricultural adviser in Pusa, Bengal, where he documented traditional Indian farming practices, and came to regard them as superior to his conventional agriculture science.
		In 1972, the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements, widely known as IFOAM, was founded in Versailles, France, and dedicated to the diffusion and exchange of information on the principles and practices of organic agriculture of all schools and across national and linguistic boundaries.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_organic_farming (1465 words)

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		Little or no consideration is paid in the literature of agriculture to the means by which Nature manages land and conducts her water culture.
		Humus again plays an important part and is found everywhere in solution, in suspension, and in the deposits of mud.
		In considering the various man-made systems of agriculture, which so far have been devised, it will be interesting to see how far Nature's principles have been adopted, whether they have ever been improved upon, and what happens when they are disregarded.
	organic.com.au /books/anagriculturaltestament (1569 words)

	Tracing the Evolution of Organic/Sustainable Agriculture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		An "attempt to tell the story of humus, its origin from plant and animal residues, its chemical composition, its physical properties, its importance in nature, especially in soil processes and in plant growth, and finally its decomposition."
		This is the classic study on soil fertility by the "father of the movement." It includes the "Agriculture of the Nations Which Have Passed Away" and observations of agricultural practices of both the Orient and the Occident.
		This is an account of the ideas and principles of Sir Albert Howard written by his second wife, also a proponent of organic agriculture.
	www.nal.usda.gov /afsic/AFSIC_pubs/tracing.htm (2271 words)

	Local Organic Saves Farmland and Communities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Today, farmers are told by the agricultural establishment that the world’s consumers demand increasing quantities of consistent quality, low priced foods, and that a corporately controlled, vertically integrated, industrial agriculture in the only means by which this demand can be met.
		An increasing number of consumers in the industrialized nations of the world want something more than organic; they also want to know where their food is grown and who grew it.
		An Agricultural Testament, with the assertion, “The maintenance of the fertility of the soil is the first condition of any permanent system of agriculture.”
	www.ssu.missouri.edu /faculty/JIkerd/papers/Guelph-Organics.htm (5735 words)

	An Agricultural Testament - Albert Howard - 13
		The application of science to agriculture is a comparatively modern development, which began in 1834 when Boussingault laid the foundations of agricultural chemistry.
		Liebig was a great personality, an investigator of genius endowed with imagination, initiative, and leadership and was exceptionally well qualified for the scientific side of his task -- the application of chemistry to agriculture.
		It was an imitation of the successful application of costings to the operations of the factory and the general store.
	journeytoforever.org /farm_library/howardAT/AT13.html (6131 words)

	BeeSource.com \| POV \| Organic \| European Commission Directorate-General for Agriculture
		The use of ingredients of agricultural origin produced by conventional methods is limited to certain percentages, and is conditional on the organic ingredient not being available.
		Stricter penalties may be imposed where a manifest infringement or an infringement with prolonged effects is found; in that case, the operator may be prohibited from producing or marketing organic products for a period to be determined by the inspection body.
		Agricultural products being sold as organic may be transported only in packaging or containers closed in a manner which would prevent substitution of the content.
	www.beesource.com /pov/organic/abio_en.htm (3508 words)

	Vital Earth / Carl Pool (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Few would argue against an approach that, if workable, would permit farmers, nurserymen, and homeowners to worry little about the material they use, and instead free up their creativity to solve other management problems.
		On the answer to this question the future of civilization lies.” He shunned conventional forms of agricultural research in favor of practical on-farm testing and was opposed to research by teams of specialists, each working on a fragment of the whole...
		Results with a wide variety of agricultural and horticultural crops attest to the fact that microbial inoculants are usually not needed with this biostimulant.
	www.vitalearth.com /news/harmony.htm (2020 words)

	IL COUNCIL ON FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH (C-FAR)
		An Internet and library search of the literature of these "new cooperatives" does not yield many systematic studies of how these groups are organized to maximize their effectiveness.
		An expansion in the production and processing of value-enhanced commodities and value-added products in the state, which will increase the income levels of producers and enable rural communities to maintain or expand higher quality employment opportunities for residents.
		Agricultural interests are primarily production-oriented and town/city interests fail to recognize the agriculture component and its impact on the local economy.
	www.ag.uiuc.edu /sri/preproposals/sri-rural.html (8458 words)

	Toward a Sustainable Agriculture - Module II - Section C: Field Crops in the Agro-ecosystem
		The importance of agriculture in causing pollution depends in part on where you look and what pollutants you are looking at.
		We know that agricultural management changes the distribution of soil organisms, but we do not yet have enough information to know details of the changes or what impacts many of the changes have.
		It is difficult to get recent detailed information about energy use in modern agriculture, but some analysts estimate that on average it takes between 5 and 10 units of fossil fuel energy to produce 1 unit of food energy consumed in the United States.
	www.cias.wisc.edu /curriculum/modII/secc/modii_secc.htm (2590 words)

	An Agricultural Testament - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An Agricultural Testament, a book by Sir Albert Howard, is credited by some with launching the organic farming agricultural movement.
		It focuses on the nature and management of soil fertility, and notably explores composting.
		At a time when modern, chemical-based industrialized agriculture was just beginning to radically alter food production, it advocated natural processes rather than man-made inputs as the superior approach to farming.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/An_Agricultural_Testament (138 words)

	Holvetgf1.htm
		Stated another way, an animal can only be as healthy as the feed it eats and the feed can only be as healthy as the soil upon which it was grown and the soil to be healthy must be highly fertile and biologically active.
		Sir Albert was formerly the Director of the Institute of Plant Industry in Indore, India and the British Agricultural Advisor to States in Central India and Pajutana.
		Zinc is required for the incorporation of cystine into keratin and thus plays an important role in maintaining hoof, horn and skin integrity.
	members.aol.com /rjhdvm/Holvetgf2.htm (2143 words)

	Clearance Form
		Australian libraries are allowed to provide clients with electronic copies of copyrighted materials for purposes of study only when it has been first determined that these materials are out of print and cannot be obtained through the usual channels of retail trade.
		This is the case with Agricultural Testament by Sir Albert Howard.
		You may decline to join and will then immediately receive an email containing the URL where the copy you have requested may be downloaded.
	www.soilandhealth.org /copyform.asp?bookcode=010105 (376 words)

	The Rodale Institute Store - Home
		Both An Agricultural Testament by Sir Albert Howard and Farmers of Forty Centuries by F.H. King were inspirations for J.I. Rodale, one of the pioneers of the organic movement in America.
		Water, Agriculture and You summarizes the findings from The Rodale Institute long term experiments showing how agricultural practices and systems influence ground and surface water quality.
		An overview of the water cycle in rel...
	www.rodaleinstitutestore.org /store/customer/home.php (475 words)

	An Agricultural Testament - Albert Howard - ToC
		An Agricultural Testament - Albert Howard - ToC
		What is her burying grave, that is her womb.
		The Agriculture of the Nations Which Have Passed Away
	journeytoforever.org /farm_library/howardAT/ATtoc.html (126 words)

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