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  • From: herb farmer <tradingpost@lobo.net>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] * Small-Scale Traditional Farming Is the Only Way to Avoid Food Crisis
  • Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 20:58:41 -0700


Good thinking. There's a lot more to "transition" than just realizing we don't have the skills or knowhow to easily slip back into the year 1800 - or year 900. There's the agricultural land problem, and you nailed it.
paul

On 1/23/2015 1:45 PM, John D'hondt wrote:
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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