Feeding 8.5 billion people by 2030 not only presents a tough challenge as to how we will achieve that, but more importantly how it can be done without our planet getting hurt. Conventional agriculture puts a big toll on the environment – pollution, land degradation, deforestation, and increased carbon footprint.
We’ll discuss the urgent and often invisible need for an agricultural paradigm shift, i.e. sustainable production, distribution, and consumption of farm produce. Such a shift requires a lot more than conferences and ‘design thinking workshops’, but above all collective, ground-up actions, and civilian participation. Good news is, contrary to popular belief, farming today no longer requires us to cut down trees, pollute our waters, and orphan our animals. The methods are diverse, abundant, and accessible. We'll even try out one or two of those during this session!
Greedy agri-corporations don’t want us to act. Let’s show them they are silly to think we won’t. Because if the planet matters, sustainable farming matters.
ACTION 63: #farm4theplanet
Date: 14.11.2017
Time: 15:00 hrs
Bula!
Kelvin