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Tag Archives: religion
Cultural traditions, environmental conservation and international development
Originally posted on Shonil Bhagwat:
Community mosaic, Edgbaston, Birmingham (Source: Jackie Nash Art) This mosaic is an example of living with difference in a multicultural society and forms a good analogy for the co-existence of cultural traditions, environmental conservation and…
Posted in food, knowledge transfer
Tagged art, conservation, development, farmer, gardener, religion, tradition
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Foundations for Farming
For many people, farming and growing are religious. I follow no organised religion but God’s here to stay on the land. For example here’s Foundations for Farming where good land management is promoted from a Christian point of view. I … Continue reading
Biocultural refugia
Originally posted on Shonil Bhagwat:
A modern-day sacred natural site: Sancheti organic farm near Pune, India, on mappingthesacred.org Pune, the small town where I grew up, is now a bustling metropolis of 6 million people. In my visit to the city…
Posted in agriculture, food
Tagged art, city, conservation, culture, development, family farm, farmer, food, food sovereignty, history, land use, map, organic, peasant, religion, research, smallholder
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Could Food Insecure Africa Have Found a Saviour in Farming God’s Way?
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.
Posted in food, knowledge transfer
Tagged arthropod, compost, conservation, corn, crop, crop rotation, development, disease, erosion, farm, farmer, fertiliser, finance, food, food security, history, insect, intensive, irrigation, knowledge, labour, land use, maize, mulch, pest, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, population, religion, research, seed, soil, technology, tillage, trade, transport, waste, water
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Putting the culture back in agriculture: Reviving native food and farming traditions
Posted in agriculture, food, knowledge transfer
Tagged biodiversity, buffalo, crop, crop variety, culture, farm, farmer, food sovereignty, history, human, knowledge, land use, livestock, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, religion, tradition
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Mangarbani: Delhi’s last sacred forest grove
Originally posted on Save Mangar Bani:
Environmentalists have often voiced their concern about the groundwater depletion in the NCR region. Mindless deforestation is aggravating this problem further. What can be described as possibly the last stretch of virgin forests in…
Posted in ecology
Tagged conservation, development, forest, history, human, land grab, land use, landscape, myth, religion, tourism, tradition
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Dragons, Devils & Dinosaurs: A Symbiologist’s Guide to St George’s Day
Originally posted on Symbiology:
It’s St George’s Day today; here in England, this is the feast day of our Patron Saint. We share him with a number of other countries including Moldova, Palestine and (perhaps unsurprisingly) Georgia, but we are…
Posted in ecology
Tagged culture, history, myth, religion, reptile, tradition, vertebrate, war
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Having a beef with the ox and the ass
You might like what my fellow blogger petrel41 at Dear Kitty says about Christmas nativity scenes’ origin. As if the Sceptical Prophet hadn’t debunked Xmas enough, we learn that ‘no donkeys, oxen, cattle or other farmyard friends’ were seen in … Continue reading
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Tagged cattle, child, culture, donkey, equid, history, myth, religion
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Debunking Xmas
My recent blog posts have been influenced by the ‘festive’ season, as you may have noticed. But as Xmas looms – my least-liked time of year – I recommend what my fellow blogger the Sceptical Prophet wrote: Christmas Has Nothing … Continue reading
Swaddling clothes, gold, frankincense and myrrh
Myths about the birth of Jesus say that ‘three wise men’ visited him as he lay, ‘wrapped in swaddling clothes,’ in a manger in Bethlehem. The myths say that the wise men gave him ‘gold, frankincense and myrrh’. Swaddling means … Continue reading
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Tagged child, culture, frankincense, gold, history, human, mistletoe, myrrh, myth, pharmaceutical, plant_dicot, poverty, religion, shrub, textile, tree
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