publications

About Tony Boys - Research into the connections between fossil fuels and food production

Website Tony Boys

email: tonbo80 [at] hotmail.com


The Final Energy Crisis
Second Edition
edited by Sheila Newman

Pluto Press UK, 2008

My contributions to The Final Energy Crisis (2nd Ed.) are:
Chapter 21. North Korea: The Limits of Fossil-Energy Based Agricultural Systems
Chapter 22. How will Japan Feed itself without Fossil Energy?

-----Other Publications-----

-Food and Energy in Japan
-- How Will Japan Feed Itself in the 21st Century? -- (2000)

English PDF Download Page and Japanese PDF Download Page

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Energy Inputs to Agriculture (PDF, 2005)

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The Limits of Energy-Based Agricultural Systems and the "North Korean Food Crisis" (PDF, 2004)

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Karen-related materials:
available for downloading at this Skydrive site

The Karen System of Forest Field Rotation: Rotational Farming

English (2005) and Japanese (2010) translation of a book describing a year in the cycle of Karen rotational swidden farming.

(PDFs: The English version is text only - the photographs are included as an album on the same site. The Japanese PDF version (~13 MB) contains the photographs)

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Look Down, see the women cry
A novel about my experiences with the Karen People in the mountain villages of N. Thailand

(Downloadable PDF - English only - at the Skydrive site)

There are also photograph albums of photographs relevant to the above on the Skydrive site.