Sustainable Agriculture – Could this be the answer to our problem of hunger?
Modern farming has led to significant soil degradation and loss of fertility impacting on human health and harming natural ecosystems. Today there is a move towards eco-friendly farming that has the restoration of natural systems in mind. I this Post we distinguish between Permaculture, Integrated Organic Farming, Natural Farming and Regenerative Farming.
The Role of Technology
Although it is true that technical development has been(and largely is) responsible for the environmental crisis, the possibility thattechnology could also become an important solution of the crisis, should not be overlooked.
NIMBI – Not in My Backyard
If there is something that is widely agree upon it is that we have a looming environmental crisis. Actually, that is not true! What we have is a dire human crisis. Notwithstanding the global attempt to remedy the situation by way of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) set in 2015 the UN 2021 report issued a Code Red warning that we are entering a non-return crisis. A recent scientific study (Dearing et.al., June 2023) based on software from more than 70,000 different simulations, points to the large ecosystem collapse that could happen as soon as in the next decade, i.e. 2030!