AGRON 342 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Organic Farming, Real Change, North American Free Trade Agreement
15 Jan 2018
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Myth 3: only industrial agriculture and & gmos can feed a hungry world, reality: Industrial agriculture is not sustainable: does not provide solution to long term production problems, erosion is increasing, economic power concentrated. Inequity increases: green revolution benefited wealth, poor could not afford to buy grain. Myth 5: we have to choose between greater fairness and more production, reality: Justice and productivity go hand in hand: small farmers, work more intensively. Land reform: distributes land to small farmers, successful in raising yields. Myth 6: free market can end hunger, reality, market is efficient in distributing food. If you can buy it: to end world hunger via the market, must have widely dispersed purchasing power. Is a role for government help disperse purchasing power to the poor: through taxes, credits, land reforms. Myth 7: free trade is the answer, reality:
