The best way to develop the resilience to survive is for urban areas to be turned over to food growing. Urban and backyard food production can produce a higher yield per square metre than conventional broadscale agriculture, the food has zero food miles, and it can be produced without the massive petrochemical inputs required by commercial agriculture. This is what Cuba had to do when the USSR collapsed, taking the Cuban economy with it. Overnight they lost the market for their plantation crops and their source of cheap energy (oil from the USSR). Fortunately a small group of Australian permaculturists turned up at the right time. ~ Brett Pritchard
Posted on: Sat, 05 Apr 2014 08:40:12 +0000
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