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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
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  • Subject: [Livingontheland] Ag chemicals and GMOs no match for advanced natural methods in beating famine
  • Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:39:13 -0600


Ag chemicals and GMOs no match for advanced natural methods in beating famine
http://www.rodaleinstitute.org/node/426

Agroecologically sound farming is better suited to meet the food needs of
poor farmers around the world because builds soil productivity without
purchased inputs.

Rather than changing the genetic make-up of plants to better use external
inputs of fertilizer and pesticies—the conventional modern
approach—agroecological farming seeks to manage local resources to create the
optimum environment for the natural abilities of crops suited to the area.

In a dynamic poster presentation, Cornell University’s Norman Uphoff explains
that science-based sustainable agriculture builds upon the most insights in
the contemporary biological and ecological domains, capitalizing particularly
on what is becoming known in the realms of soil biology and soil ecology.

He promotes the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) because it represents a
strategy that enhances food production and contributes to food security while
at the same time improving the natural resource base on which agriculture and
other human activities, as well as life itself, depend. He says it also is
accessible to the poor, offering them greater profitability, lower economic
risk, improved environmental benefits and the ability to teach it to one
another.

Full story
http://www.tropentag.de/2005/proceedings/node181.html





  • [Livingontheland] Ag chemicals and GMOs no match for advanced natural methods in beating famine, Tradingpost, 03/20/2008

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