Published on Friday, October 16, 2015 by The Quint
reposted on Common Dreams

Excerpt:
..."For all the destruction it causes, the industrial food system produces only 30% of the food eaten by people. If we continue, we will soon have a dead planet and no food. There is, however, another road to food security. The road that was abandoned by research institutes and governments under the influence of giant chemical corporations (now seed and Biotechnology Corporations). This is the road of agroecology and small scale farming, which still produce 70% of the food.

Agroecology Rejuvenates Earth

Agroecology rejuvenates our soils, biodiversity and water systems, that stabilises the climate, that produces health and well being. It is the way of small farmers all over the world. These good farming practises of small farmers strengthen local economies instead of extracting profits for the few. They work on the intensification of biodiversity and ecological processes.

An industrial model of food production is neither efficient nor sustainable. It is not efficient because it uses ten units of inputs - largely fossil fuel based - to produce one single unit of food. It eats into the ecological foundations of agriculture, hence not sustainable too.

Even though the evidence is clear that ecological farming holistically produces more and better food, using fewer resources, corporations continue to fog our thinking about the future of food and farming with new propaganda – “sustainable intensification”, “smart agriculture”, “climate smart agriculture”. "...

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See also: Organic Regenerative Agriculture Can Ease World Hunger & Reverse Global Warming for links to groups involved and more informatopn