Part I Agriculture, food and nutrition -- 1. Intensive farming and its effects on natural ecosystems -- 2.Farmer poverty in India – drivers and challenges -- 3.Alternative farming for sustainable development -- 4.Traditional knowledge and sustainable farming -- 5.Food security, nutrition, and...

Our purpose here is to challenge the "big-bang" approach to economic history in which some alleged institutional imposition - a deus machine - is claimed to launch a series of new economic behaviors. This so-called prime mover is then carried forward by the inexorable forces of path dependency...