Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[John D'hondt <dhondt@eircom.net>]

No matter what, we are not going to avoid a food crisis because we can 
not magic back to an agricultural situation of a hundred years ago. 
Every single day there are untold thousands of small farmers in the 
"developing" world being forcibly driven off their land to make room for 
big agriculture or even hunting reserves for the rich. In the first 
world small farmers are driven to give up by an ever increasing load of 
rules and regulations intended to make them give up. Get bigger or get 
out is still the word of the day.

Big industrial ag can not keep going for ever and then what? I think 
humanity will find it near impossible to grow anything on the depleted, 
poisoned soils left behind from the "green" revolution. The fastest way 
to make these soils fertile and non- toxic again is to let them go back 
to natural woods for a century or so. We are talking generations before 
they will once again be able to provide healthy food.

It would be a good idea to stop killing of small farmers.
John

On 23/01/15 04:39, herb farmer wrote:
> * Small-Scale Traditional Farming Is the Only Way to Avoid Food 
> Crisis, UN Researcher Says
> http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/un-only-small-farmers-and-agroecology-can-feed-the-world 
>
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