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Actually, it's pretty well established that it's going to take industrial agriculture to feed the world's population in the coming years. Unfortunately it is or
by ryandvm 14y ago
Actually, it's pretty well established that it's going to take industrial agriculture to feed the world's population in the coming years. Unfortunately it is organic farming that will ultimately turn out to be unsustainable.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=organic-farming-yields-and-feeding-the-world-under-climate-change http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=organic-far...
- fractallyte 14y agoIn 2009, a programme from BBC's 'The Natural World' series covered this precise issue: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hs8zp http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hs8zp The programme's presenter is a farmer, from a family of farmers. She explored the latest developments in 'sustainable' agriculture and arrived at some surprising conclusions. 'Permaculture' was one of the most radical ideas, and the suggestion is that it could truly revolutionize modern farming. It was a thoughtful, reasoned and compelling commentary; a programme which I found important enough to make an 'offline' copy for myself...
- msutherl 14y ago"Of course, the cost of using 171 million metric tons of synthetic nitrogen fertilizer is paid in dead zones at the mouths of many of the world's rivers. These anoxic zones result from nitrogen-rich runoff promoting algal blooms that then die and, in decomposing, suck all the oxygen out of surrounding waters." Right.