Cooking Up a Story: Food News
Fred Kirschenmann steadfastly warns us, conventional agriculture, and its heavy dependence upon fossil fuels, and irrigated water, simply will not continue to offer a viable means for feeding the world. We have been drawing upon nature’s reserves of stored energy (hydrocarbons) and water resources at unsustainable rates, and those finite resources are diminishing rapidly; technology alone, will not provide substitute solutions. The argument that conventional agriculture (modern industrial farming) is necessary in order to meet the needs of a growing global population, simply ignores the realities of the elephants in the room. Sustainability, with an emphasis upon the concept of resiliency, and a renewed respect for maintaining the fertility (quality) of the soil, is to Kirschenmann now, the foundation of a new food system toward creating a food revolution.
Fred Kirschenmann: The Future of Agriculture-Part 2 Kirschenmann discusses the other 2 elephants in the room, and their potential effects upon our agriculture system.
See Related: Fred Kirschenmann: The Future of Agriculture- Introduction; Paul Roberts: The End of Food; and Paul Roberts: The End of Food-Part 2
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