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because what I don’t know, I can find out in a few seconds. Thank God for the Internet! And yes, thank God for the
personal computer. Thank God for everything.) You don’t need good grammar to understand the story told in the
language of science. At this point in time, grammar is the least of your worries.
4th sentence: semi-arid tropics, short growing seasons, very hot and dry periods.
This is in fact a description of the semi-arid tropics. You don’t worry about short growing seasons because, of
course, the crops that grow well there know all about short growing seasons, hot and dry days or weeks or
months.
5th sentence: Natural, soil fertility, very low, pest pressure, disease pressure, intense.
At this point, I know that now you’re getting the point. (I just
checked the Internet for “pest pressure” and I got 3,130 English
pages, but no one is explaining it. In other words, they are
assuming the reader understands it – I think it refers to actual
infestation (by an insect pest) or infection (by a disease-causing
organism).
6th sentence: persistent drought, land degradation,
constraints, SAT farmers, perennial risks, improving,
productivity, livelihoods.
Many very long words, but you will admit that it’s all getting clearer
and clearer.
(By the way, I’m using Word 2003 – not Word 2007 – in typing
this. I like Word 2003 better because it’s Frank A Hilario-friendly.
Exactly what do I mean by that? Example: I can change the font
size of a book of 132 pages, which is this one, with only 1
command that will take less than 1 minute, and the pages, lines
and words will adjust accordingly, automatically. Another example:
By the way, I’m using Word 2003
– not Word 2007 – in typing this.
I like Word 2003 better because
it’s Frank A Hilario-friendly.
Exactly what do I mean by that?
Example: I can change the font
size of a book of 132 pages,
which is this one, with only 1
command that will take less than
1 minute, and the pages, lines
and words will adjust
accordingly, automatically.
Do you notice that ICRISAT is smaller than ICRISAT? ICRISAT is small caps, 13 pt (the words in much of the text of this
book are in 12 pt); the bigger ICRISAT is allcaps, 12 pt. I changed all the 160 entries of big ICRISAT to small ICRISAT in
60 seconds. That’s what I call user-friendly.)
And now, I will tell you there is another way to understand the quoted materials without breaking up the paragraphs
into individual sentences. My Way. I will now type the next paragraph, so now I have both:
The onset of the Green Revolution in the late sixties and early seventies brought unprecedented increases in
food production in favorable areas of the developing world. However, many regions in less-favored, rainfed
areas such as the semi-arid tropics (SAT) have been bypassed. The SAT covers parts of 55 developing countries
populated by about 1.4 billion people, of which 560 million (40%) are classified as poor, and 70% of these live
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