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[Michael Thompson <mike.brian@gmail.com>]

The article notes that the short growing season presents a challenge.
Maybe this momentum of self-sufficiency could be combined with, say,
greenhouses and modern high efficiency LEDs and they could potentially
become exporters of food...

On 11/22/12, Toby Hemenway <toby@patternliteracy.com> wrote:
>
> 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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