Redefining the village and rural life: lessons from South East Asia.
How deprived had the generation before me been - a generation that had been satisfied with the accumulation of its own footsteps in the lanes of its villages. Pramoedya Ananta Toer, 1982 THE 'VILLAGE' - AS AN IDEA, an organizing principle, and as a basis for life -...

SAY `NO!' TO GENE TECH'S BITTER HARVEST.
Food used to be something you just ate, Now you need to think twice about it. Without warning, genetically engineered foods have landed on Australia's supermarket shelves untested, unassessed and unlabelled. Everyone is asking why, and what it means for our health and the environment. Bob Phelps...

Culture as justification, not excuse.
ABSTRACT The wide discussion of cultural defenses over the last twenty years has produced very little actual change in the criminal law. This Article urges a reorientation of our approach thus far to cultural defenses and aspires to move the languishing discussion to a more productive place....

Landec Corporation Achieves Record Quarterly Revenues and Operating Profits For Second Quarter of Fiscal 2001.
MENLO PARK, Calif., June 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Landec Corporation (Nasdaq: LNDC), a developer and marketer of technology-based polymer products for food, agricultural and licensed partner applications, today reported record quarterly revenue and operating profit results for the second quarter ended April 29, 2001. Total revenues...

Challenges and coping strategies of women food crops entrepreneurs in Fako Division, Cameroon.
Abstract Ensuring food security today in Cameroon is a key but not an easy task for government. This is because the country is experiencing high rural exodus and urban growth rates. The result is a continual reduction of the agricultural labour force in the face of an...

Construing Newer "Window" of Ecumenism for Africa: A Catholic Perspective.
To take part in the African revolution, it is not enough to write a revolutionary song; you must fashion the revolution with the people. And if you fashion it with the people, the songs will come by themselves and of themselves. In order to achieve real action you must...

Entrepreneurships barriers of pond fish culture in Bangladesh-a case study from Mymensingh district.
Abstract: The main purpose of the study was to identify the major barriers of pond fish culture entrepreneurships in Bangladesh. The population of the study consisted of all 285 fish farmers of the selected villages of Muktagacha upazila (sub-district) of Mymensingh district. Needed data were collected with questionnaire by...

Ecumenism in a Multi-Religious Context.
Africa is a land of promise but also a land of missed opportunities. It is a highly fragmented land, ethnically, religiously and economically. Its great enemy is lack of unity with mutual understanding and respect. The last two hundred years were full of strife, either self-inflicted or imposed by...

Inventing Claude Debussy.
There is a subtle temptation which leads a man on from mere disinterested craftsmanship, through a positive delight in his own virtuosity, to the exquisite private satisfaction of deceiving the elect. --Hugh Trevor-Roper, A Hidden Life The exposure of de Ternant began in 1947 with...

SPIRIT ASTIR IN THE WORLD: WENDELL BERRY'S SACRAMENTAL POETRY.
IN the thirty-two years since historian Lynn White, Jr., first described Christianity as "the most anthropocentric religion the world has seen," Christian environmentalists have responded by articulating their faith in various shades of green (1205). Among such apologists, the Kentucky writer and farmer, Wendell Berry, has assumed a leading...