Theoretically, the food we produced worldwide could sustain all the current population both in quantity and energy in calories if look through a nutrition perspective. However, food security remains the top most crisis for all human beings. If we calculate greenhouse gas emission for all food waste on earth, it ranks number 3 just after China and the US. I believe there is a sustainable way of farming and agriculture that could sustain all people in the world with a diversified food types.
I envision that large agribusiness corporations and environmental organizations recognize the power of diverse, perennial, polycultures as we saw in the biggest little farm. The power of ecosystem resilience and the harmonious of species coexistence achieved from biological integrations are far more effective and sustainable than chemical pesticides.
To achieve this, fundamental institutional and political changes should absolutely take place. Government should redistribute the subsidies for producing profitable crops that feed the livestock to staple foods that sustain people’s life. The profit bond between politic, business and the environmental organizations should be weaken, even though I have not think about a way to break this. These influential parties should not deliberately overlook the environmental problems and destructions caused by agriculture and livestock. It is time for campaign and appealing for reducing meat consumption and build a real sustainable farming and food production.
Hi Bellie, I love your post and agree with all your points! I would love to see a campaign put in place to appeal for moving towards sustainable farming.
I really enjoyed reading your post! I definitely agree that it is absolutely time that larger agribusiness gets involved in searching for sustainable solutions for the huge environmental problems with how agriculture is done currently. I also hope that going forward the general public and the decision makers in governments around the world can become more open minded to harnessing the biodiversity in farming practices and can support this goal with policy changes.
Love your post Bellie! I feel like I relate a lot to your sentiment about how there are two conflicting situations: that the world struggles to feed everyone sufficiently, but that we are currently producing enough food (and using enough resources) to feed everyone sufficiently. So why do we struggle with this? I also have hope for a world where we can farm sustainably, diversify our food types, and give everyone on earth enough food to thrive. Thanks for sharing!
Hi Bellie! I also agree that there should be another way to implement a sustainable way of farming. I think that by redistributing the subsidies for producing profitable crops is a way to accomplish this as well!
i agree with you Bellie, profit and economy is definitely something that needs to be separated from environmental organizations.