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  • From: Keith Johnson <keithdj@mindspring.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] perennial polyculture from RAND corporation
  • Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:56:11 -0500

Despite the fact that this report was written for the Rand corporation it's still well-written, fairly accurate, with good charts / illustrations, but with unimaginative conclusions. It even quotes one source saying, “humans have produced food from integrated polycultures for approximately 98.5% of farming history.” It does, however, fail to recognize that it continues to be practiced by many cultures on the earth (except by Wes Jackson at the Land Institute) and completely ignores permaculture's contribution but draws on material from ATTRA, on the one hand, and corporate shills like Bjorn Lomborg on the other. They are still betting on grains, bioengineering, and global trade as the principal means to make their "polycultures" successful.
http://www.endgame.org.uk/pdfs/polyculture.pdf

Nicholas Roberts wrote:
just found a very interesting article from RAND corporation - a US military
industrial research corporation - about perennial polyculture - looks to me,
that corporate agribusiness will soon in the permaculture business

you might not be interested in multinational corporations and global
capitalism, but they are interested in you

http://www.endgame.org.uk/pdfs/polyculture.pdf
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Keith Johnson
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