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Integrating soil conservation and fodder production as climate adaptation strategy in Ethiopia

By: Guyon, Lolita,Demeke, Getamesay,Redon, Philippe,Bourgeois, François,Mega, Tadesse,Tilahun, Abebe,Desalegn, Mesfin

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Integrating soil conservation and fodder production as climate adaptation strategy in Ethiopia

By: Guyon, Lolita,Demeke, Getamesay,Redon, Philippe,Bourgeois, François,Mega, Tadesse,Tilahun, Abebe,Desalegn, Mesfin

Like many smallholder farmers in Africa, the farming families of southern Ethiopia are facing three major challenges: the need to intensify and diversify their farm production, on very small areas, in a context of high population growth. In these rural areas, given the fertility rate, the population will double by 2050; agricultural practices must preserve the environment to maintain its productive capacity, for current and future generations; the necessity to rapidly adapt farming practices to cope with climate changes. Regarding these three challenges, Inter Aide has developed an innovative approach that consists in combining fodder production and soil and water conservation. The basic idea is simple: to plant fodder on anti-erosive structures and in unproductive places on the farm.

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The Temptation of Saint Redon

Biography, Ideology, and Style in the Noirs of Odilon Redon

By: Stephen F. Eisenman,Odilon Redon

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The Temptation of Saint Redon

Biography, Ideology, and Style in the Noirs of Odilon Redon

By: Stephen F. Eisenman,Odilon Redon

Bristling with demons, grotesques, and bizarre apparitions, the graphic work of Odilon Redon has often seemed to be the product of a mind unhinged. In The Temptation of Saint Redon, Stephen F. Eisenman argues instead that these works are Redon's conscious and considered response to changing social realities—an attempt to find refuge from the forces of modernization in an imaginative world of the macabre and the fantastic. Eisenman's careful attention to the circumstances of Redon's life (1840-1916) allows him to bring into focus the interconnections between Redon's complex style and the culture and society of his time. Born and raised on a sixteenth-century estate near Bordeaux, Redon was immersed as a child in traditional rural culture. "I spent my entire childhood in the Médoc completely free, among peasant children," he recalled in his memoirs. "I heard them tell supernatural tales—witches still exist there." Indeed, local tales and legends of witches, ghosts, one-eyed monsters, evil eyes, and wood fairies figure prominently in Redon's graphic works, which he called his noirs, or "blacks." After formal training at Bordeaux and Paris in the 1850s and 1860s, Redon began to chart his independent artistic course. Eisenman shows how, rejecting both naturalism and classicism, Redon, a prototypical Symbolist, found in grotesque and epic genres the expression of organic communities and precapitalist societies. He places Redon's desire for this imagined world of superstitious simplicity a desire manifest in his entire mature artistic practice in the context of contemporary avant-garde movements. Redon's great noirs of the 1870s and 1880s, dreamlike configurations of seemingly irreconcilable elements from portraits, still lifes, and landscapes, show an increasingly subtle control of connotation and a complex indebtedness to caricature, allegory, and puns. Many of the noirs also visually interpret works by like-minded authors, including Baudelaire, Flaubert, Poe, and Mallarmé, one of Redon's close friends. Eisenman's analysis of the noirs underscores Redon's interest in creating an imaginative, even fantastic art, that could act directly on the human spirit. In addition to deepening our understanding of Redon and his art, The Temptation of Saint Redon exposes a link between place, politics, personal history, and the artistic imagination.

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The Medieval Kitchen

Recipes from France and Italy

By: Odile Redon,Françoise Sabban,Silvano Serventi

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The Medieval Kitchen

Recipes from France and Italy

By: Odile Redon,Françoise Sabban,Silvano Serventi

The Medieval Kitchen is a delightful work in which historians Odile Redon, Françoise Sabban, and Silvano Serventi rescue from dark obscurity the glorious cuisine of the Middle Ages. Medieval gastronomy turns out to have been superb—a wonderful mélange of flavor, aroma, and color. Expertly reconstructed from fourteenth- and fifteenth-century sources and carefully adapted to suit the modern kitchen, these recipes present a veritable feast. The Medieval Kitchen vividly depicts the context and tradition of authentic medieval cookery. "This book is a delight. It is not often that one has the privilege of working from a text this detailed and easy to use. It is living history, able to be practiced by novice and master alike, practical history which can be carried out in our own homes by those of us living in modern times."—Wanda Oram Miles, The Medieval Review "The Medieval Kitchen, like other classic cookbooks, makes compulsive reading as well as providing a practical collection of recipes."—Heather O'Donoghue, Times Literary Supplement

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Integrating soil conservation and fodder production as climate adaptation strategy in Ethiopia

By: Guyon, Lolita,Demeke, Getamesay,Redon, Philippe,Bourgeois, François,Mega, Tadesse,Tilahun, Abebe,Desalegn, Mesfin

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Integrating soil conservation and fodder production as climate adaptation strategy in Ethiopia

Integrating soil conservation and fodder production as climate adaptation strategy in Ethiopia

The Temptation of Saint Redon

The Temptation of Saint Redon

The Medieval Kitchen

The Medieval Kitchen

Integrating soil conservation and fodder production as climate adaptation strategy in Ethiopia

Integrating soil conservation and fodder production as climate adaptation strategy in Ethiopia

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