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The GE industry’s commercial power and political influence is preventing proper investment in nutritious, high-yielding and often naturally pest-controlled crops.
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With a growing world population, we need to change the way we produce
and consume food so that agriculture works in harmony with the natural
environment, not in conflict with it. Many sustainable farming
systems exist in Australia and around the world, but they desperately
lacking funding and policy support.
By supporting independent public research and promoting sustainable agriculture, the food needs of the world, including developing nations, could be met. Poor farmers in developing countries around the world have the skills and the motivation to protect their environment, for their benefit and for the benefit of the global commons on which we all depend.
These environmentally friendly practices are literally already in the ground. Farming Solutions - a website jointly created by Greenpeace, Oxfam, and the Centre for Information on Low External Input and Sustainable Agriculture (ILEIA) - shows how food secruity and sustainable livelihoods can be achieved by innovative, environmentally responsible agriculture systems without threatening biodiversity, eroding the soil base, polluting water or endangering human health.
The challenge of the coming agricultural revolution is to support farmers to feed themselves and their communities and to protect their environment. Solutions lie not in feeding the world but in enabling the world to feed itself.
By supporting independent public research and promoting sustainable agriculture, the food needs of the world, including developing nations, could be met. Poor farmers in developing countries around the world have the skills and the motivation to protect their environment, for their benefit and for the benefit of the global commons on which we all depend.
These environmentally friendly practices are literally already in the ground. Farming Solutions - a website jointly created by Greenpeace, Oxfam, and the Centre for Information on Low External Input and Sustainable Agriculture (ILEIA) - shows how food secruity and sustainable livelihoods can be achieved by innovative, environmentally responsible agriculture systems without threatening biodiversity, eroding the soil base, polluting water or endangering human health.
The challenge of the coming agricultural revolution is to support farmers to feed themselves and their communities and to protect their environment. Solutions lie not in feeding the world but in enabling the world to feed itself.
