How to Feed the World and Save the Planet A View from the Ground

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News Source : Resilience

News Summary

  • The global food system is the single largest driver of climate breakdown, ecosystem degradation, pollution and preventable disease.
  • The number of hungry human mouths to feed is 800 million and rising.
  • There is a way to produce considerably more food per acre while restoring soils, supporting biodiversity, and healing ecosystems.
  • But that would mean going directly against what our governments – and the agribusiness interests that influence them – have been funding for decades.
  • What is really needed is restructuring of the markets to invert the business model.
Better production ultimately means protecting soils instead of depleting them, it means using water more wisely, it means bringing back diversity and local solutions. Beth Bechdol,Food and Agricultu [+14395 chars]

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