Climate Change and Agriculture: Time For A Paradigm Shift
source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7ev63oo-Q0&feature=player_embedded
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The solutions to climate change, hunger, and poverty are in the soil. The key to reducing and sequestering greenhouse gases and increasing yields safely is to phase out the use of fossil fuel fertilizers and replace them with sustainable methods including cover cropping, rotation and composting. This is easier to accomplish in developing countries and would allow more farmers control over their seeds thus bringing them out of poverty and giving them food sovereignty.
Local control of food that farmers can grow for their communities and benefit from in a fair market without having to grow luxury export crops to satisfy World Bank loans thus leaving them short of food will also cut down on reliance of GM food aid from the U.S. Don't then wonder why these methods are shunned by the agricultural elitist corporations and the governments in their back pockets.
A healthier more productive world awaits us if we take it into our own hands and make the choice to stand up to those who would subjugate us to globalization at the expense of sustainability and our rich biodiversity.
Please watch this informational video on soil, agriculture and climate change and then think about supporting a campsesino group or making yoir voice heard regarding sustainable agricultural methods which have been proven to not only increase productivity, but benefit the health of the environment and those who partake of its bounty and preserve biodiversity.
As with solving the climate crisis, it is up to us.
Local control of food that farmers can grow for their communities and benefit from in a fair market without having to grow luxury export crops to satisfy World Bank loans thus leaving them short of food will also cut down on reliance of GM food aid from the U.S. Don't then wonder why these methods are shunned by the agricultural elitist corporations and the governments in their back pockets.
A healthier more productive world awaits us if we take it into our own hands and make the choice to stand up to those who would subjugate us to globalization at the expense of sustainability and our rich biodiversity.
Please watch this informational video on soil, agriculture and climate change and then think about supporting a campsesino group or making yoir voice heard regarding sustainable agricultural methods which have been proven to not only increase productivity, but benefit the health of the environment and those who partake of its bounty and preserve biodiversity.
As with solving the climate crisis, it is up to us.
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lamborghini
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Seems so simple doesn't it Jan?
- 2 years ago
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lamborghini
