Background
Pretty, Jules Nicholas was born on October 5, 1958 in Jos, Nigeria. Son of John Robert and Elisabeth Susan Pretty.
('Refreshingly fluent narrative, brimming full of stories ...)
'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 evidence and clear arguments' Norman Uphoff, Cornell University, US 'A wonderful book, put together with such vision and passion' Mark Ritchie, Institute of Agriculture and Trade Policy, US 'A superb volume. This is a valuable monograph that all policy-makers, scholars and farmers must read to understand their roles and responsibilities' Vo-Tong Xuan, Angiang University, Vietnam 'Beautifully written. The implications of the book's ideas are deep and extensive' Julia Guivant, University of Florianopolis, Brazil Something is wrong with our agricultural and food systems. Despite great progress in increasing productivity in recent decades, hundreds of millions of people remain hungry and malnourished, and further millions suffer for eating too much food or the wrong sort. Agri-Culture envisages the expansion of a new form of food production and consumption founded on more ecological principles and in harmony with the cultures, knowledges and collective capacities of the producers themselves. It draws on many stories of successful agricultural transformation in developing and industrialized countries, but with a warning that true prosperity will depend on the radical reform of the institutions and policies that control global food futures, and fundamental changes in the way we think. The time has come for the next agricultural revolution.
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(Agriculture Pollutes: pesticides can destroy wildlife and...)
Agriculture Pollutes: pesticides can destroy wildlife and some are toxic to humans; some fungicides and herbicides cause cancer. Nitrates result in the contamination of drinking water and produce the risk of the �blue-baby� syndrome in infants and of stomach cancer in adults. Agriculture produces methane, ammonia, nitrous oxide and the products of burning off, all of which add to the world's problems of acid rain, depletion of the ozone layer and global warming. This book, which focuses on the UK, the USA and Third World countries, is the first comprehensive review of agriculture and pollution: it examines the facts and assesses the relative dangers of each pollution problem. It also considers the effects of pollution on agriculture itself � crop yields are depressed and livestock damaged by various forms of pollution from all sources. The authors offer solutions to these apparently overwhelming problems, and describe existing technology which would allow us to deal with them. Originally published in 1991
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environmental science educator
Pretty, Jules Nicholas was born on October 5, 1958 in Jos, Nigeria. Son of John Robert and Elisabeth Susan Pretty.
Bachelor, York University, 1976. Master of Science, Imperial College, 1981.
Program director IIED, London, 1989-1996. Professor University of Essex, England, 1997—2003. Professor at-large Cornell University, since 2001.
('Refreshingly fluent narrative, brimming full of stories ...)
(Agriculture Pollutes: pesticides can destroy wildlife and...)
Deputy chair United Kingdom Governments advisory committee on releases to the environmental, London.1999—. Member advisory group English Nature's Solid-Economics, since 2003. Member advisory board Unilever's Sustainable Agricultural, since 1999.
Member Institute of Biology.
Life partner Gill Boardman. Children: Freya, Theo.