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  • From: Toby Hemenway <toby@patternliteracy.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Russia’s small-scale organic agriculture model may hold the key to feeding the world | True Activist
  • Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 21:32:53 -0800


On Nov 21, 2012, at 7:54 PM, Lawrence London wrote:

> Russia’s small-scale organic agriculture model may hold the key to feeding
> the world | True Activist
> http://www.trueactivist.com/russias-small-scale-organic-agriculture-model-may-hold-the-key-to-feeding-the-world/

Just to continue my theme, this is countered by

> Due to a lack of local supply, Russia imports around 40 percent of its food
> consumption

http://www.nzte.govt.nz/explore-export-markets/market-research-by-industry/Food-and-beverage/Pages/Food-and-beverage-market-in-Russia.aspx

Russia is, I believe, the largest food importer in the world. They are just
over half-way to feeding themselves. So of the numbers in that report, 90% of
their potatoes, 59% of meat, etc., should be cut roughly in half, since the
meaningful percent is "of the food consumed by Russians," instead of "grown
by Russians." The main reason they aren't all starving is that they sell vast
amounts of oil for food. 35 million small farms aren't doing it.

I must have gotten up on the doomer side of the bed this morning.

Toby
http://patternliteracy.com





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