Winin Pereira's 'Inhuman Rights: The Western System and Global Human Rights Abuse' presents a sharply critical and revealing account of how the West has actually misused conventionally defined human rights set forth in the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights to promote and maintain its political and economic hegemony over the rest of the world. More than sixty years after the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it is important to place this historic document in its broader political, economic and cultural context.

Inhuman Rights: The Western System and Global Human Rights Abuse

Business & Money

Pereira, Winin

Management & Leadership

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

The need to produce food without the destructive chemical horrors of much modern farming, for an intelligent use of dwindling natural resources and for humane forms of production is universal, the practice is limited. This book is an account of one, large, instance of success in practice. Twenty-five years ago, Winin Pereira, a nuclear physicist abandoned academia to start a co-operative farm at Alonde in a tribal area north of Bombay. The group experienced, and finally discarded, all the false hopes and promises of Western originated forms of development: ploughs that ploughed too deep, irrigation systems that lowered water tables, fertilizers and pesticides which managed the earth and became so expensive that poorer farmers were dispossessed. Instead they learnt from the adivasai, or tribal people, who have nurtured or been nurtured by foresets for millennia, ways of applying popular knowledge to contemporary problems. This book is a combination of Pereira's record of achievement of sustainable livelihoods and an account of the farm and its effect on the India around it by a leading British journalist. Originally published in 1991

Asking the Earth: Farms, Forestry and Survival in India (Natural Resource Management Set)

Seabrook, Jeremy

Reference

Routledge

This is a documentation of colonial intervention in India, describing its disastrous effects on Indian agriculture. It then describes the equally calamitous effects of Western techno-fixes, calling into question the very concept of development. Abandoning atomic physics for farming, Winin Pereira established a co-operative farm at Alonde, north of Bombay 25 years ago. His group lived through the false promises of modern techniques - ploughs which dug too deep, irrigation systems which lowered the water table, fertilizers and pesticides which damaged the soil - and instead learned from the local tribal people methods which had proved themselves for centuries. It shows how intelligent use of resources and humane forms of production can be achieved without the damage and toxins of modern farming. Its enormous success has had a great influence on farming in India.

Asking the Earth: Farms, Forestry and Survival in India

Economics

Earthscan / James & James

Inhuman Rights

The Other India Press

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