Can Small-Scale Farming Feed the World?
Hiya!!! Happy Friday! Hope your week went well. Below you’ll find my most recent video about small-scale farming, three quotes, and three links I think are particularly. illuminating on the subject. Enjoy!
Three Quotes:
“A review of the literature written between 2007 and 2020 indicates that small-scale regenerative agriculture can indeed feed the world, but would require economic, dietary, policy, and cultural shifts.”
— Soul Fire Farm
“Currently, in the European Union about 80% of subsidies and 90% of research funding go to support conventional industrial agriculture.”
— Transnational Institute (written in 2014)
“You have to be able to sustain sustainable agriculture, and it also has to be able to sustain you, mentally, spiritually, and physically. What happens is you give everything to the land and to your livestock and then you, yourself, physically, wear out and, mentally, you wear down and, spiritually, you start to question.”
— Analena B. Bruce & Rebecca L. Som Castellano
Three Links:
Can small-scale regenerative agriculture feed the world? (Soul Fire Farm)
Labor and alternative food networks: challenges for farmers and consumers (Analena B. Bruce & Rebecca L. Som Castellano)
Food sovereignty (Via Campesina)
Hope you have a wonderful weekend,
Charlie