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    The Duty of Professional Agriculturists
    Falvey, J (Asian Agri-History Foundation, 2010)
    This lecture to agricultural educators and officials uses dual meanings of key words as a mechanism to explain the deepest teachings of Buddhism in terms related to agriculture. It begins by interpreting the essential truth of and indeed the etymological origins of Dhamma as a duty and the performance of one’s duty. It uses the Thai word for nature to introduce the linkage between the Dhamma and responsibilities of everyday life as a duty because life may be considered as borrowed from nature. In this context looking out for oneself selfishly is seen as the opposite of moral or natural behaviour, yet it is recognised as the basis of current society and agriculture. Development of society, economy, and one’s spirituality are explained in terms of correct or unskilful development, with the conclusion that the primary duty of humans is their personal spiritual development to understand the true nature of all existence An analogy of life and rice cultivation includes introductory historical and contextual comment before relating spiritually-aware behaviour to traditional rice cultivation conducted communally to everyone’s best ability to provide a harvest of ultimate peace and calm.
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    Livestock and Food Security: The Relevance of Animal Science to the Hungry Poor
    Falvey, J (Asian Australasian Animal Production Conference, 2012)
    Livestock play a major role in basic food-security, which in turn is the first principle of national security and international security. Food-insecure populations emigrate and undermine precarious States. Even at the level of more luxurious food-security expressed in UN ideals, livestock products are critical. Outside single product industrial farms, livestock provide multiple outputs, including: high-quality protein; income; draught and traction power; nutrient recycling; various edible and non-edible by-products, and they reproduce themselves. Children and reproductive-age women, whose diets are deficient in amino acids not readily accessible from plant foods or in micronutrients, benefit significantly from even small amounts of animal protein, which globally makes up perhaps 28 percent of protein intake. In Asia, livestock production has increased markedly in recent decades, particularly from intensive systems in China as part of its planned food-security – an approach that provides lessons for smaller food-insecure countries. Future animal scientists and development planners will learn to balance such innovations with those of the West and move beyond routine European breeds and production systems to consider the livestock 3Rs – ruminants, rabbits and rodents that thrive on waste products and lands not suited to other forms of food production. They will make such contributions to food security as: animal production within city limits; periurban farms; industrial and home-based aquaculture; home-based rodent/rabbit hutches; contract-growers supplying cities; insect-protein units; huge capital-intensive operations with integrated market chains; non-agricultural foods, and more. For now, extensive ruminant grazing systems and small mixed farms seem likely to remain the most efficient production systems, although the majority of animal products that can be delivered to cities, where most of the world will live, will probably be from specialized intensive production, particularly of poultry and pigs. As animal scientists we do well to reflect on our ethical and technical roles, especially with respect to food security.
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    Musing on Agri-History
    Falvey, J (Asian Agri-History Foundation, 2013)
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    Food Security: The Contribution of Livestock
    Falvey, L (Chiang Mai University, 2015)
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    Integrated Development: An Historical Insight of Our Time
    Falvey, J (Asian Agri-History Foundation, 2016)
    Integrated development is described, including definitions, origins, and its value as an improvement in development activities. Spanning all sectors, worldviews, environments and circumstances, integrated development is introduced as an ideal towards which responsible development practitioners and agencies are moving. As it encompasses all aspects of existence it necessarily includes spiritual and other esoteric considerations, which on the surface may not seem to accord with modern worldviews. By contrast, the paper shows that reflection on the ideal reveals it as the culmination of human insight experience and scholarship that is richly evident in Asian agricultural history.
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    Shifting Cultivation: A Cautionary Note
    Lindsay, F (Informatics Publishing Limited, 2018-09-25)
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    Understanding Southeast Asia Syncretism in Commonalities
    Falvey, L (lindsay falvey, 2015)
    In various ways, this book provides a context for scholarly works on specific places, technological studies and the nation-building stories of the new countries that make up the region.
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    Song of Songs of Solomon A Poetic Interpretation
    Falvey, JL (lindsay falvey, 2012)
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    Beliefs that Bias Food & Agriculture: Questions I'm Often Asked
    Falvey, L ; Falvey, L (Institute for International Development, 2013-12-25)
    The book answers 10 questions addressed to the author in various forms. Some are personal, while others relate to global issues. All are answered with candor and detailed explanation. The answers will not suit those who seek confirmation of popular viewpoints, nor will they suit those who insist they are doing good without having knowledge of what they are really doing. But they will admirably suit those extremely important persons from all walks of life who are open to new knowledge, who can accept challenges to their beliefs and received knowledge. The answers cover such topics as: - why livestock are critical to food security - why free trade and markets can't solve food shortages - why aid shouldn't insist poor countries follow our model - how to reconcile science and commerce with popular ideals - how grass domestic happiness can be a serious topic - how more food can be produced with less land and fertilizer - why labels like Buddhist and vegetarian confuse life - what traditional wisdom is critical to development - how misrepresentation fuels fears about climate change - why small farmers and foreign agribusiness must coexist