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["Nicholas Roberts, Permaculture.coop" <permaculturecoop@gmail.com>]

this is the author of the report on Perennial Polyculture.
http://www.rand.org/about/people/d/dewar_james_a.html#overview

I am not trying to demonise him, in fact its a really good report, and
it inspired the Gaia Permaculture project
http://gaiapermaculture.com/projects/gaiapermaculture

but, if RAND is publishing a report, what work has been done that isnt
public, thats where we turn to Seed's article, Soil of War below;

RAND RESEARCH AREAS
International Affairs; National Security

RECENT PROJECTS
Sustainable agriculture
Long-term decisionmaking
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
James A. Dewar, Assumption-Based Planning: A Tool for Reducing
Avoidable Surprises, Cambridge University Press, 2002

James A. Dewar et al., Expandability of the 21st Century Army, RAND
Corporation, 2001

Dina G. Levy et al., Strategic and Performance Planning for the Office
of the Chancellor for Education and Professional Development in the
Department of Defense, RAND Corporation, 2001

Richard Hundley et al., The Global Course of the Information
Revolution: Political, Economic and Social Consequences-Proceedings of
an International Conference, RAND Corporation, 2000

Richard Hundley et al., The Information Age and the Printing Press:
Looking Backward to See Ahead, RAND Corporation, 1998



http://www.grain.org/seedling/?id=590

I wonder what kind of reports are not published? classified? I think
Patrick's link to Soil of War gives us an idea of the reality in
AfPak, the reality of sustainment as military-industrial
sustainability...

Thirty years ago, when Afghanistan was a net exporter of food, Helmand
was the country’s breadbasket. The US proclaimed after the invasion
that by 2007 it would once again make the country self-sufficient in
food. Today that goal is as distant as ever, with Afghans still
dependent on food imports and foreign assistance. This is largely
because the war has continued, devastating the country’s agriculture.
Rather than genuinely helping Afghans to recover their old farming
skills, the agriculture centres provide a veneer of agricultural
reconstruction to a military mission that is destroying Afghanistan’s
food systems. They are an attempt to legitimise the military bases of
an occupying power.

The Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) that the UK and US deploy
in the Afghan countryside with increasing frequency serve a similar
purpose to the agriculture centres. Some of the PRTs are called
Agricultural Development Teams, and they have a specific agricultural
mission. Apart from the questionable intent to teach Afghan farmers
about how they do things in Iowa or Texas, these teams, composed
mainly of soldiers from the National Guard, also make critical
contributions to military operations. “It helps in the military
kinetic part because it involves cooperation of the local population,
and intelligence resources can be brought to bear”, explains Army
Major-General King E. Sidwell. “It makes friends when you might not
otherwise be able to make friends.”

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