argylesock says… I wasn’t going to read this article, because I don’t believe in God. But lots of people do, and anyway the ideas now labelled ‘Farming God’s Way’ sound very sensible.
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That seems to make a lot of sense for poor farmers in the developing world. But I’m a tad confused here, aren’t the ‘methods of God’ the same conventional methods that have been used by farmers the world over up until around a century or two ago?
Yes, to my eyes they look exactly the same! Perhaps the phrase ‘God’s Way’ is simply to say ‘Back to the Land’ in a culturally appropriate way.
I found it interesting that this article described the 1960s Green Revolution as having been a great success in Asia and South America, but not in Africa.