Comments on: Food and agriculture - essential reading http://www.eatthesuburbs.org/2006/09/food-and-agriculture-essential-reading/ Creative adaptations to peak oil and climate change Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:05:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: serge http://www.eatthesuburbs.org/2006/09/food-and-agriculture-essential-reading/#comment-26415 serge Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:51:41 +0000 http://www.eatthesuburbs.org/2006/09/food-and-agriculture-essential-reading/#comment-26415 great writing. great writing.

]]> By: Tony Boys http://www.eatthesuburbs.org/2006/09/food-and-agriculture-essential-reading/#comment-25462 Tony Boys Thu, 22 May 2008 05:30:26 +0000 http://www.eatthesuburbs.org/2006/09/food-and-agriculture-essential-reading/#comment-25462 Good, interesting list of refences. We really need to clear this hurdle for the EDAP, because if we can't eat then the plan is useless. Somewhere on the net there is a paper or article by Christos,Vasilikiotis, "Can Organic Farming "Feed the World"?". I also talk about this a little in one of my papers available at the URL above, Energy and Agriculture update, Jan 2005. On the kinds of things that can go wrong with countries regarding the connections between food and energy, please see my material on food and energy in Japan in the 21st century and my paper on the problems in North Korea (2004 version), which are available in PDF from the URL above. For some hints on what sustainable agriculture with no fossil energy inputs might be like, please see some of my material about the Karen people in northern Thailand, also at the website mentioned. There are lots of good ideas about sustainable farming 'out there'. Reading about it is fine, what we really need, especially in highly urbanised societies, is that people get "reskilled" in the skills of food production. Good luck!! Good, interesting list of refences. We really need to clear this hurdle for the EDAP, because if we can’t eat then the plan is useless. Somewhere on the net there is a paper or article by Christos,Vasilikiotis, “Can Organic Farming “Feed the World”?”. I also talk about this a little in one of my papers available at the URL above, Energy and Agriculture update, Jan 2005.

On the kinds of things that can go wrong with countries regarding the connections between food and energy, please see my material on food and energy in Japan in the 21st century and my paper on the problems in North Korea (2004 version), which are available in PDF from the URL above. For some hints on what sustainable agriculture with no fossil energy inputs might be like, please see some of my material about the Karen people in northern Thailand, also at the website mentioned.

There are lots of good ideas about sustainable farming ‘out there’. Reading about it is fine, what we really need, especially in highly urbanised societies, is that people get “reskilled” in the skills of food production. Good luck!!

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