Pic: from Frank Giles’ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/bandicoot.blu/photos
UN Agencies Call for an End to Industrial Agriculture & Food Systems A rising chorus from UN agencies on how food security, poverty, gender inequality and climate change can all be addressed by a radical transformation of our agriculture and food system
Record breaking heat waves sweeping over both hemispheres this summer have put global warming back into the headlines, and with it, the problem of survival under climate change. The most urgent item on the agenda is how to produce food without adding even more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, which can also withstand the increasingly frequent extreme weather events.
It is generally acknowledged that industrial agriculture and our globalized food system is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, up to 50% if proper account is taken of emissions from land use change and deforestation, most of which are due to agriculture, and for food-related transport, processing, storage, and consumption (see Figure 1) [1]. Nevertheless, it is also generally recognized that agriculture holds tremendous promise for mitigating climate change, and much else besides.
Eliza: This sustainable agriculture stuff is crucial…….
This lecture by Graeme Sait:
is about humus … It is a ripper!
Graeme Sait’s website is
http://www.nutri-tech.com.au/
• Frank Giles, Seaview Farm: We are on an insane and irreversible path to environmental destruction
