Guideline

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VAISNAVA RURAL LAND DEVELOPMENT GUIDELINE

 

WHY

To reinvigorate ISKCON farm communities in accordance with the wishes of

His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the ISKCON Ministry

of

Cow Protection and Agriculture presents a Vaisnava Rural Land Development

Guideline to

establish sustainable principles and practices of land use that encourage

participation in lifetime-protected cow-based agriculture and provides

tenure security for the participants.

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VISION

The Vision is to establish ISKCON farms that manage according to

sustainable principles and practices of land use that encourage

participation in lifetime-protected cow-based agriculture and provide

tenure

security for the farmers/ for the quality

of life aspirations of the participants. .

 

MISSION

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To present this plan to the Governing Body Commission of ISKCON (GBC) by

Dec 1st 2003 for their approval, so that ISKCON Farms can become sustainable,

viable, safe havens for the devotees as well as attract non devotees

during the future unknown and threatening world events.

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VAISNAVA RURAL LAND DEVELOPMENT GUIDELINE>

 

SECTION I ENVIRONMENTAL

 

Should we have here categories/recommended/permitted/Not Allowed?

 

A. Ideal according to Scriptures

1) Land use principles and practices of lifetime-protected cow-based

agriculture as outlined in the Minimum Cow Protection Standards (ISKCON

Law 507).

 

C. How to get to B

1) Land use must be at least to the standards of Low External Input

Sustainable Agriculture. LEISA - Low External Input Sustainable

Agriculture. Please refer to http://www.ileia.org/

2) to use land in a sustainable form that will in the long term increase

fertility and bio-diversity, whilst at the same time producing for the

short and long-term needs of the participants.

3) This landscape should be able, with proper management, to provide our

needs without recourse to outside resources to maintain it.

If we are unable to produce sufficiently from the land to meet the quality

of life we wish to live, then it is understood.

a. Our quality of life goals are too extravagant.

b. Or/and our land is too marginal. Please refer to Holistic Resource

Management (book title)