§ 2 PATHOLOGIES AND BARRIERS Between 1978 and 1984 the Asian Development Bank spent $24 million to improve agriculture on the island of Bali. The target for improvement was an ancient agricultural system organized around 173 village cooperatives linked by a network of temples operated. | 2 PATHOLOGIES AND BARRIERS 3 Slow Knowledge There is no hurry there is no hurry whatever. Erwin Chargaff It takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. Lewis Carroll Between 1978 and 1984 the Asian Development Bank spent 24 million to improve agriculture on the island of Bali. The target for improvement was an ancient agricultural system organized around 173 village cooperatives linked by a network of temples operated by water priests working in service to the water goddess Dewi Danu a diety seldom included in the heavenly pantheon of development economists. Not surprisingly the new plan called for large capital investment to build dams and canals and to purchase pesticides and fertilizers. The plan also included efforts to make idle resources both the Balinese and their land productive year-round. Old practices of fallowing .
