How to Feed the World - Mark Bittman, food journalist & author gives an overview + some recommendations on how to accomplish it. Quote: The current system is neither environmentally nor economically sustainable, dependent as it is on fossil fuels and routinely resulting in environmental damage. It’s geared to letting the half of the planet with money eat well while everyone else scrambles to eat as cheaply as possible. This isn’t about “organic” versus “modern.” It’s about supporting the system in which small producers make decisions based on their knowledge and experience of their farms in the landscape, as opposed to buying standardized technological fixes in a bag. Some people call this knowledge-based rather than energy-based agriculture, but obviously it takes plenty of energy; as it happens, much of that energy is human, which can be a good thing. Frances Moore Lappé, author of “Diet for a Small Planet,” calls it “relational,” and says, “Agroecology is not just healthy sustainable food production but the seed of a different way of relating to one another, and to the earth.” nytimes/2013/10/15/opinion/how-to-feed-the-world.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0&ref=opinion
Posted on: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 06:32:55 +0000
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