Agriculture Proposal

Food Security
"Food Security: According to the Food and Agriculture Organization, food security exists "when all people, at all times, have access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life."" http://library.thinkquest.org/05aug/00282/other_glossary.htm

Sting of Poverty http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/03/30/the_sting_of_poverty/

Problems
Over Industrialization (Peak Oil) - artificial fertilizers (peak oil) Desertification (Soil exhaustion) Water - glaciers - rainfall - groundwater - demand - deforestation (water table) - wetlands (what wetlands?)

Pest & Disease Imported Foods (80% imported) - global agriculture collapsing - US in trouble (drought) - economics Monocultures & GMOs Centralization Competition (Biofuels)

Solutions
Permaculture - organic - appropriate species - diverse varieties (seed saving etc) Urban Agriculture Locavore (encourages econimoc development of self sufficiency) Regional appropriate crops - One Straw Revolution

Philosophy
- Wendel Berry et al

Break Down of PEN issues 1) Food Security: Overview Current threats (detailed) solutions (macro) - War Waste Preserves 2) Water - conservation 3) Permaculture - overview of Pma - local species - beneficial native species (companion planting) - supporting (CSA retailers) - decentralized (small local) 4) You and - relationship to land/food - all political and individual action - local activism (biofuel / GMOs / CGN / JF) - seedy sat

First
- BACKgrounder Climate and Food Security Mike -- sub chpt local challenge - Food and Biofuels David - food preserving techniques David - Food security for the marginal Adrian - industrial vs community Adrian - 100 km diet sources Stefan - Changing seasons / varites garden planning COG -- context para by Mike - Food Secure Canada, 2746 Cassels Street, Ottawa, ON, K2B 6N7; OpenConcept Consulting Inc. policy/political/action - the politics of local food security 1200-1500 - getting involved in food security Lucy S