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Perhaps half of vertical farms’ operators will be former farm workers, and the other half will be new to agriculture – or perhaps retired marijuana growers.
At the same time, people increasingly protest against the wind farms in their backyards.
Local opposition has tripled over the past three years, and local approval rates for new wind farms have sunk to an all-time low.
Most people believe that a few wind turbines can be attractive, but it is an entirely different matter when turbines are scattered across the countryside, or when massive, industrial wind farms extend for miles.
It focused on isolated cases of abuse, and failed to challenge well-established ways of mistreating animals on farms or in laboratories.
The European Union established a scientific committee to investigate animal-welfare issues on farms, and the committee recommended banning the battery cage, along with some other forms of close confinement of pigs and calves.
Technologies to support sustainable agriculture already exist, with around 29% of all farms already using some form of sustainable farming techniques.
They have somehow concluded that America will be spared from the droughts already destroying farms in California’s Central Valley, the rising sea levels already flooding coastal cities, the storms and wildfires routinely ravaging vast swathes of the American countryside, and the water- and food-supply disruptions that threaten us all.
Just as Chinese companies are now training US coal workers to build wind farms, the rest of the world will continue to work together, and build the markets and workforce of the future.
But, with some 80 million small farms in sub-Saharan Africa producing 80% of agricultural goods, smallholder farmers have a key role to play in resolving the financial and food crises and unleashing Africa’s potential to feed itself.
Ideally, Asia’s farms could simply expand their production.
To produce a sufficient amount of food, Asia’s farms will need to undergo a twenty-first-century transformation.
China is already modernizing farms through cooperatives, and by using digital e-commerce platforms to tap into high-value markets.
By using less labor, and more capital and technology, Asia’s future farms can grow enough food to feed everyone in the region.
A fundamental reason that organic food production is far less “sustainable” than many forms of conventional farming is that organic farms, though possibly well adapted for certain local environments on a small scale, produce far less food per unit of land and water.
No company exemplifies this more than Gazprom, the state-run energy behemoth, which has gobbled up oil assets, media, banking interests, and farms within Russia, and seeks to do the same with downstream energy assets outside Russia, particularly in Europe.
As Warren Buffet says: “[W]e get a tax credit if we build a lot of wind farms.
There are families today near Xian, in what was the heartland of the Tang Dynasty Empire, with two-acre dry wheat farms and a single goat.
Across the continent, farms controlled by women tend to produce less per hectare than farms controlled by men.
Previously, experts believed that women’s farms produced less because women have less access to inputs like fertilizer, water, and even information.
For example, the report found that women face obstacles mobilizing the labor they need to help their farms flourish.
Consistent with that finding, an historic ballot initiative in California to ban cruel forms of animal confinement on factory farms, including the battery cage system of keeping hens, is also showing strong support.
Water quality would be improved for more than 600 million people if the farms and ranches operating within their watersheds limited runoff and restored stream banks.
The invention of crop rotation and mechanized equipment dramatically increased agricultural productivity and enabled human civilization to shift from farms to cities.
As recently as 1900, one-third of Americans lived on farms; today, that figure is just 2%.
Critics argue that increasing the productivity of smallholder farms could backfire, especially if it encouraged poor farmers to expand their acreage in the hope of increasing profits.
Ten years ago, for example, America’s elected leaders somehow hoodwinked the median US voter – who is most likely to leave little to his or her heirs – into believing that it was necessary to eliminate taxes on $5 million estates in order to protect small family-owned farms.
It is hard to overemphasize the benefits of microbial soil treatment for agricultural productivity, especially in the developing world, where increasing crop yields is a matter of survival for smallholder farms.
When I was in Gaza before the Second Intifada, there were many examples of entrepreneurial activity – factories and farms.
Soviet-style economies may have posed as avatars of industrial modernization, but in most of the USSR's former satellite states Marxist-Leninist economics locked vast numbers of people onto farms.
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