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because they use much less land and water and are responsible for fewer emissions.

Matthieu Calame remarque que « la peur de la famine est de retour... Pourrons-nous, en 2050, nourrir 9 milliards d’hommes sans par ailleurs dégrader l’environnement de manière irréversible, sans transformer la terre en un désert ocre ? Quel sera le régime alimentaire ? Quelle valeur aura l’énergie ? Quels gains de productivité pourra-t-on espérer ?

This hidden carbon stock, often upward of 44 tons of carbon per acre, is at risk of mobilization into the air if insensitive farming practices defeat living systems’ tendency to fix carbon into soil biota.

Sous l’incitation des besoins et la poussée du profit capitaliste, la tendance dominante, un peu partout sur le globe, est pourtant de continuer et amplifier agriculture et élevage industrialisés qui concourent à la disparition des paysans, à l’urbanisation croissante, ainsi qu’à la dégradation générale des sols et de la qualité des produits.

‘Forest gardening’ is a prehistoric method of food production in many tropical areas. Robert Hart pioneered it in temperate climates and his work has been developed further by Patrick Whitefield and Martin Crawford, who runs the Agroforestry Research Trust.

The good news is that there are plenty of opportunities today for major technological shifts to lower T, the human impact per unit of GDP. These include the shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy (wind, solar, hydro, geothermal, and others), which would provide more energy with lower greenhouse-gas emissions. Another opportunity is the shift i

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Reducing losses to pests and pathogens is equivalent to creating more land and