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OUR DAILY BREAD; The Essential Norman Borlaug
Norman Borlaug received the Nobel Prize for Peace, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal and he thus ranks beside Martin Luther King Junior, Nelson Mandela and Mother Teresa. Few people however know his name. The new book shows why Borlaug should be a household name as one who saved billions from hunger, and how much of the world got its daily bread.

$20.00

1: Borlaug: The Mild-Mannered Maverick Who Fed a Billion People

Volume 1: Right off the Farm 1914-1944 by Noel Vietmeyer. This rocket-like romp explores the drama of a spirited Iowan born with no prospects. It shows his youthful hopes and dreams playing out against the tumultuous background of America riven by dissent, not to mention the Great Depression. It also highlights the intercessions of strangers who keep his quirky career surging on toward the Nobel Prize and the billion lives he will save from starvation.

$10.00

2: Borlaug Volume 2: Wheat Whisperer 1944-1959

BORLAUG Volume 2, Wheat Whisperer. 1944 To 1959 exposes the amazing drama during the years in desperately hungry Mexico when Borlaug developed the wheats that ultimately saved millions from starvation. At the time, no one approved of his research and no farmer would plant his seeds. He has to fight to provide Mexico the food it needs. These pages feature numerous amazing incidents when, for instance, he nearly loses his life, nearly gets deported, and is forced to work out of a derelict research station in the Sonoran Desert with neither electricity nor sanitation but plenty of rats. In the end it is the farmers who become his greatest supporters and protect him from those who wish him ill.

$10.00

3: Borlaug Volume 3 - Bread Winner 1960 - 1969

BORLAUG: Volume 3, Bread Winner. 1960 - 1969 shows how, during the decade of the 1960s, Borlaug's seeds almost miraculously reached Asia by accident. Here's where he begins playing a part in history: In 1964 people passed the 3 billion mark, a third were under 30, and in the decade ahead they would have billions more children. To the experts, the future was clear, Paul Ehrlich laid it out in 1968: "The battle to feed humanity is over," he wrote, "In the 1970s the world will undergo famine - hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death in spite of any crash program.

Borlaug Volume 3 highlights dozens of drams that ended up proving the experts wrong. The text is lively and informative, and is supported by 46 photographs.

Paperback. Version 1.0: October 2010. 242 pages

$10.00

Amaranth: Modern Prospects for an Ancient Crop

This beautifully illustrated 78-page book details the history and science behind this fascinating plant. Although published in 1984, it remains the best introduction to this promising dietary fortifier. Beyond botanical drawings and nutritional data, its pages tell how to advance this neglected food towards its substantial, perhaps even stellar, future around the globe.

$5.00

Applications of Biotechnology to Traditional Fermented Foods

This 197-page overview highlights foods that are widely enjoyed but poorly supported by science. Among the several dozen foods are ogi (Nigeria), pozol (Mexico), dawadawa (Nigeria), chicha (Peru), masato (Colombia), nham (Thailand), idli (India).

$5.00

Butterfly Farming in Papua New Guinea

This colorful 34-page booklet highlights farms that help people in remote villages grow colorful and very valuable livestock that populate the farm from the nearby native bush. Simple to run and stunning to see, such farms produce income while preserving rare species as well as the tropical forest ecosystem.

$5.00

Calliandra: A Versatile Small Tree for the Humid Tropics

This 56-page book shows how Indonesian villagers and government agencies exploit this little tree for firewood, forage, honey and soil improvement, not to mention steep-slope stabilization. Ideally suited to subsistence farming and infertile soils, calliandra can be cut for firewood year after year.

$5.00

Casuarinas: Nitrogen-Fixing Trees for Adverse Sites

This 125-page review highlights robust nitrogen-fixing Australasian trees that can resurrect locales where barrenness, drought, salt, chronic erosion and other harsh conditions leave no other alternatives. While stabilizing such problem sites they also produce various kinds of wood products.

$5.00

Crocodiles as a Resource for the Tropics

This 55-page book highlights a Papua New Guinea program in which breeding-age crocodiles are legally protected and locals are encouraged to harvest the hatchlings, which tend to be abundant, timid and easy to catch. After raising them for a couple of years, the villagers sell the skins. The method engages local economic self-interest to protect endangered species in their natural environment.

$5.00

Firewood Crops: Shrub and Tree Species for Energy Production, Volume 1

This 237-page fully illustrated book describes 60 species suitable for cultivation for fuel in developing countries. Special emphasis is given to adaptable, easy to raise trees with uses beyond fuel.

$10.00

Firewood Crops: Shrub and Tree Species for Energy Production, Volume 2

This 103-page sequel describes 27 more species likely to be good fuel producers for poor nations. Again, the emphasis is on species that help provide more than just fuelwood.

$5.00

Jojoba; New Crop for Arid Lands, New Raw Material for Industry

This 100-page book surveys the prospects for a new drought-resistant crop. Although published in 1985, this easy access volume conveys the plants powers and modern promise.

$5.00

Leucaena: Promising Forage and Tree Crop for the Tropics

This 93-page 1984 book hightlights giant leucaena, a versatile and useful tree that is a tool for tropical reforestation. A boon to the environment, it rebuilds depleted soils, provides shade, shelter, and general beautification and grows fast enough to absorb possibly more CO2 per acre than any other tree.

$5.00

Little-Known Asian Animals with a Promising Economic Future

This 124-page eye-opener exposes amazing creatures that are related either to cattle, to pigs or to nothing we know. It has chapters on banteng, madura, mithan, kouprey, babirusa, warty pigs, yak and more. A fun read, it induces the imagination to play with the possibilities of a broader livestock base, especially for the tropics.

$5.00

Lost Crops of Africa, Volume 1, Grains

This 380-page book describes the potentials of African rice, finger millet, fonio, pearl millet, sorghum, tef, and a dozen more native cereals. It also highlights innovations to help grain farmers, consumers, and malnourished babies make the most of the traditional cereals.

$10.00

Mangium and Other Fast-Growing Acacias for the Humid Tropics

This 63-page book highlights a tropical tree that provides wood and other resources that deflect poor people from destroying natural forests. It is also a natural nursemaid that helps rainforests return to the barren hills.

$5.00

Microlivestock; Little-Known Small Animals with a Promising Economic Future

This 447-page eye-catching book describes 40 species, including small livestock breeds, 8 forms of poultry, dwarf deer, dwarf antelope, rabbits, rodents, iguanas and bees. These are sized to fit the space limitations of peasant farms.

$10.00

More Water for Arid Lands: Promising Technologies and Research Opportunities

Published in 1984, this 125-page review details rainwater harvesting, runoff agriculture, water reuse, reducing evaporation from soil as well as from water surfaces, trickle irrigation, reducing the amount of water plants transpire, and controlled environment farming, and more.

$10.00

NUTRITIONAL POWERHOUSE (Amaranth)

Amaranth once supported the strapping Aztecs and Incas; now it is returning from the past to feed the future. This popping grain fortifies dicey diets by rounding out the poor protein of wheat, rice, corn and other staples.

$5.00

Producer Gas: an Alternative Fuel for Motor Transport

This 108-page book highlights experiences with a back-up fuel that can sustain civilization when normal transport is no longer possible. During both World Wars millions of standard vehicles operated on wood and charcoal burned in a restricted air supply. The resulting gas delivered food and supplies, and saved millions of lives.

$5.00

Quality Protein Maize

This 130-page book details the promise of a nutritious, new, natural form of the planet's third largest food crop. It features elevated levels of lysine and tryptophan, amino acids essential to life.

$5.00

Saline Agriculture: Salt-Tolerant Plants for Developing Countries

This 142 page book, produced by an international team, reviews the possibilities of more than 100 species that accept salt in the soil and that yield food, fuel, fiber, fodder, resins, essential oils, raw materials for pharmaceuticals and other useful products.

$5.00

Sowing Forests from the Air

This 63-page review highlights tree species and techniques that have reforested the toughest treeless locales in various parts of the world, including tropical lowlands and highlands, temperate zones, and semiarid regions.

$5.00

The Water Buffalo: New Prospects for an Underutilized Animal

The Water Buffalo: New Prospects for an Underutilized Animal is a vividly illustrated 118-page book that emphasizes the potential beyond Asia. Published in 1981, it provided the scientific credibility that helped attract serious researchers to a neglected animal. The meat has proved to be lean and low in cholesterol; the milk is top rate, being the source of mozzarella cheese.

Brazil already has more than 4 million head, and Asia water buffaloes like the Amazon basin's heat and humidity. Unfazed by periodic floods, they swim well and eat the plants under water.

$5.00

Triticale: A Promising Addition to the World's Cereal Grains

This 105-page book summarizes the science behind this staple with huge promise for the new era about to burst upon us. Although published in 1989, it remains a great introduction to this crop that can transform marginal lands and sustain food production when the going gets too tough for the current counterparts.

$5.00

Vetiver: A Thin Green Line Against Erosion

Vetiver: A Thin Green Line Against Erosion describes this practical, all-natural tool for use throughout the warm zones. In fact, this 185-page report shows that vetiver is safe and simple enough that landowners throughout the warmer parts of the world can install their own hedges. Despite being overtaken by events during the last decade, the book is still a great place to learn how this technique can transform the tropics.

$5.00