Food and farming: Two futures.
The first path is industrial, and was paved by the poison cartel, which was born during the war to create chemicals that can kill people.
After the wars they redeployed war chemicals as agrichemicals — pesticides and fertilisers — we were told we can’t have food without poisons.
Bt crops were supposed to control pests but they have created new pests and superpests.
In 2013, Monsanto acquired world’s largest climate data corporation, Climate Corporation, for $1 billion.
Climate Corporation does not bring to farmers the knowledge that the solution to climate change lies below our feet, in the soil.
This is the next step in a dead end future that ignores the intelligence of seeds, plants, soil organisms, our gut bacteria, farmers and our grandmothers.
They are thus sowing the seeds of food democracy — a food system in the hands of farmers and consumers, devoid of corporate control, poisons, food miles and plastics; a food system that nourishes the planet and all humans.
Contrary to the myth that small farmers should be wiped out because they are unproductive and we should leave our food future in the hands of the poison cartel, surveillance drones and spyware, small farmers are providing 70 per cent of global food using 30 per cent of the resources that go into agriculture.
We cannot solve climate change without small scale, ecological agriculture, based on biodiversity, living seeds and living soils and local food systems, with minimal food miles and devoid of plastic packaging.