Sustainable agriculture

Chapter 6, “When Farmers Shut Off the Machinery”, by Brian A. Devore, is about farmers who have resulted in using what they see on their own farm and to observe changes to decide what is best rather than jumping to conclusions and possibly trying to use the newest silver-bullet fix. Many different things approaches were used in the chapter. David Podoll keeps track of the weeds near his farm. Unlike most farmers who would see these weeds and spray them, Podoll keeps them as the weeds are a home…

Today’s modern society focuses on wanting things bigger, better, and faster. According to filmmaker Robert Kenner there is no place this symptom of greedy progress is more prevalent than the modern food system. Kenner’s film Food Inc paints an all to realistic picture of the sinister effects of the industrial food system, ranging from the abuse of the animals and workers to the destruction of the environment and public health. Through his use of powerful imagery, such as video footage of baby…

Setting: Soil symbolizes the setting in the novel “Witness” because like the soil is the base of a plant, the setting is the foundation of where and when the story takes place. The specific setting in the book is in “Vermont” and the time period is “1924” (Hesse 1). This provides the reader with a very general and basic idea but does not fully explain the setting. To enhance this, a social setting also exists and it is the main conflict, discrimination developed by the Ku Klux Klan entering…

Living Off the Food Systems Three distinct food production systems make up our everyday food choices. Some Americans will never move past the very first food chain where little connection exists between nature and the plate. In Michael Pollan’s book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, he walks through and explores each food chain in detail. Pollan holds a strong desire to closely experience every aspect of the processes and origins of the food that humans eat. His introduction explains what the book’s…

The Connection between the Population Distribution and the Geological Landforms The way that Canada’s population is distributed is very uneven and this is because of the way landforms have developed. The Continuous Ecumene, Discontinuous Ecumene and the Barren and scattered population will be discussed here. The Continuous Ecumene is on sediment rock, the Discontinuous Ecumene is on igneous rock, the Barren and scattered population is in the far north and in the high lands. The Continuous…

FAO, poverty and overpopulation are believed to be the main indirect causes of forest loss. As population grows the demand for food also increases. With growth in population, more people means more food and space requirement whereby more land for agriculture and habitation are required resulting in more clearing of forests. However, overpopulation is not a problem exclusive to Third World countries. Any individual in an industrialized country is more likely to consume in the order of sixty times…

Most of the world’s poor are directly or indirectly dependent on agriculture, and experience has shown that growth in agriculture is often the most effective and equitable strategy for reducing poverty and increasing food security. Climate change multiplies the challenges of achieving the needed growth and improvements in agricultural systems and its effects are already being felt. Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) is an approach to dealing with these interlinked challenges in a holistic…

And agriculture is currently the leading cause of habitat destruction. Globally trees are being cut down, the land is turned into field to grow crops and raise livestock. For the local communities this can be positive, providing more jobs for local people and improving the local economy. However, this does come at a price, agriculture is the leading cause of Amazon rainforest destruction, accounting for 91% of trees cut…

reservation systems that help irrigate the arid farmland in his village and throughout the drought prone Northeastern Thailand. Soon after, my father followed his suit by studying applied agriculture to help farmers picking new crops that are suitable for their farmland. He saw that, despite the improve irrigation…

governance, environmental degradation and the loss of agricultural space, demographic changes and the changing social behaviors. The debts of poor nations are off course another sustainable factor in global poverty. There is a need to thinks seriously about the unstoppable poverty in the world. The only way forward is to enhance sustainable development, rather than exploitative progress. The policies of inclusion are required to promote, rather than exclusion, where only the fittest…