A Farm for the Future 3

BBC documentary on the precient global farming and food crisis, filmed in the UK.
Featuring Martin Crawford (Agroforestry Research Trust), Fordhall Farm, Richard Heinberg and others.

Topics covered are the influence of oil on the food production, peak-oil, food security, carbon emissions, sustainability and permaculture.

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Food
• globalisation
• oilcrisis
• peak-oil
• permaculture
• sustainability
• independence
• nature
• freedom
• equality
• preservation
• health
• oil
• vegan
• farming
• farm
• food-procution

[888zzz]

People believe they practically have the obligation to reproduce. They gotta get that out of their heads. Overpopulation is one of the main contributors to the environmental problems not just irresponsible use of resources.

[withDefiance]

I think those are both problems... and we are currently faced with a lot of people so you can say that thats the problem, but your not gona get rid of that in 10 years. And we can chance our ways of production, which, because of that large population to feed, have increased and moved to a poor way of producing food. Especcially the meat-production is horrific. The amount of pollution comming from that is absolutly staggering.

[VictorianGentlmn]

Resilient communities and self-sufficiency. Localism. Take back your life from gov't, tv, advertisers. Live a life WORTH living.

[feelytouchy67]

@tomisclass, so what do you think of being able to feed one's cattle without having to go through the expense and trouble of growing, cutting, bailing, and carrying the hay to the cows in the winter? Even from a purely business oriented perspective, I find this film incredibly enlightening . . . even if the world isn't remotely close to dying . . .

[tomisclass]

not plowing is not radical either, no tillage farming is standard in australia, usa and canada the major grain producers of the world. this woman hasn't got a clue. she compares everything to her 100 acre farm in devon which yes of course is not sustainable its effeciencies in production would be shocking

[tomisclass]

oh no the worlds going to end, we will run out of oil and everything will grind to a standstill. er no i think not. human kind by our nature is intuitive and inventive. we are survivors. life finds a way. this woman presenting this show makes me want to give up on life as there is no hope! i'm not saying her facts are wrong she sounds pretty spot on but she makes out like the end of the world is looming.

[DrChrisBiomed]

In sweden we have "natur-bete" wich translates to "natural-pasture". What it means is that we let the pasture grow by itself without our interferance (leaving trees and bushes to grow as they like), and the cattle graze happily on it. Only problem is that the EU doesn't consider this to be a pasture as there are too many trees... beurocrats!

[RjbsNXT]

Raising cattle does nothing towards feeding the population with bread or potatoes which are the staple foods in our diets. Meat production also wastes a lot of energy as heat and movement so overall, to feed the population, arable farming is quite the necessary. A major reason for the growing population is the increase in supply of food. The world still went around before machinery was invented but people took advantage of it and the population has grown out of hand. That's the real problem..

[3877michael]

Every 20 years humans eat more food that has ever been produced from the time of Christ.

[treverbettis]

agriculture does not work period

[chexycat]

This whole thing stinks of green party propogander! Im not disputing there are issues but before you start scaring the public you need a proper understanding of what your talking about backed up with facts figures and science not oppinions

[ssssaaafff]

@888zzz Another media hyped response. This planet could easily hold 20 billion people in underground homes in permacultuered parks of the 5 billion acres of reclaimed deserts not to mention all the mountain sides, forest deserts and floating cities where every thing is recycled and grown locally. All the 7 billion people in the world if standing shoulder to shoulder would only cover the area of Los Angels, CA less than a fraction of a percent of the worlds surface.

[FreemanOftheMind]

@711shamonkey i agree but the trouble is we more or less had permaculture systems set up worldwide not too long ago, particularly in non-developed countries BUT there has been a DELIBERATE shift towards forcing farmers OFF the land for CORPORATE gain (governments are little more than fascist dictatorships urging corporate interests).