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  Crisis points the way to more local food

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  This is exactly what a colleague in Rwanda has seen: small farmers who grow without expensive petroleum based inputs (herbicides, pesticides, and synthetic fertilizers) are doing well.

  They're insulated in large degree from the current food and fuel crises, and they're actually finding new demand for their crops.  Some are actually scaling up more production, opening fields they haven't used in awhile, to meet demand.  This is putting more money in their pockets.

  If there's a positive here, it's to show the wisdom in promoting, investing in, and buying local agriculture.  I mean, who wants tasteless strawberries in December anyway?!On As corn and soy fields drown in rainwater, the food crisis deepens posted 1 year, 5 months ago 19 Responses