1. Often locally produced food needs expensively warmed greenhouses as opposed to that grown in warmer climates and shipped in. Added to that the third world needs trade rather than aid.
2. We cannot feed the world on organic food. It takes more land and labour than intensive farming. More land used for food production means less lies fallow or turned over to the environment.
3. Fair trade can be very dictatorial in the way they “allow” 3rd world farmers to produce.
4. The best way to preserve the world is to raise people out of absolute poverty, and the quickest and easiest way (well so far this century at least) is to allow open trade.
Monday 19 October, 2009 at 8:38 pm
Hi
Couple of points re your post
1. Often locally produced food needs expensively warmed greenhouses as opposed to that grown in warmer climates and shipped in. Added to that the third world needs trade rather than aid.
2. We cannot feed the world on organic food. It takes more land and labour than intensive farming. More land used for food production means less lies fallow or turned over to the environment.
3. Fair trade can be very dictatorial in the way they “allow” 3rd world farmers to produce.
4. The best way to preserve the world is to raise people out of absolute poverty, and the quickest and easiest way (well so far this century at least) is to allow open trade.
Rgds
Thursday 5 November, 2009 at 3:43 am
– Climate Change made the typhoons in the south pacific very destructive. Typhoon Ketsana made a lot of mess in Philippines and Vietnam
Saturday 23 July, 2011 at 8:15 pm
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