”Low impact high yielding agriculture”

October 15, 2008 by greengard

In the study ”The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity” agricultural systems are classified into two types: “Low impact types of agriculture” and ”Intensive agriculture”. But what the world needs and what we try to achieve is :”Low impact high yielding agriculture”. Let us hope this could be a winning concept.

Focus Foresight and Farming Perspectives and the practical agriculture

October 14, 2008 by greengard

The leading theme in this blog can be summarized as follows:

 

Our global requirements increase. The human society grows.

Satisfying the requirements demands resources and causes environmental load,

What we should have is growth without increasing the environmental load.

For agriculture there are some opportunities to achieve this combination  without increased costs or even with some economic advantage.

But it is necessary to focus on these opportunities. Can it be called Focus Foresight?

 

Earlier this evening I had a meeting/discussion with a group of  prominent farm managers.

Did they accept my line of thinking?  Yes.

Did they feel an engagement for environment ? Yes – but the problem often is that a specific measure often has two sides, both positive and negative. Confusion does not promote action.

Focus Foresight? Yes. Neither the word (Swedish version) nor the idea were rejected.

Soil organic matter? Yes, definitely an important issue. If it is known how to work with it.

 

Really an encouragement to continue.

 

And this week Farming Perspectives has started being used in practical advisory work ( by the project Focus on Nutrients).