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We Could Feed the World With Low-Input Agriculture. But Will We?
Posted by Sharon Astyk on March 10, 2011
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In January of 2007, Aaron Newton, my friend and co-author of A Nation of Farmers came to Albany for four days of intense work on our book. We barely ate, slept or left the house, since we knew it would be the only chance the two of us had to hash everything out. Perhaps the…
Putting Me in My Place
Posted by Sharon Astyk on July 19, 2010 The first thing you need to know about my farm is that it is huge. I mean enormous – by world standards. The vast majority of the world’s farms – more than 80%, are very small farms, of less than 2 hectares (about 5 acres), and they produce the majority of the world’s staple crops…