Vandana Shiva: To Feed Ourselves, First Feed Other Species - #Commons
Vandana Shiva: To Feed Ourselves, First Feed Other Species - #Commons
Dr. Vandana Shiva, a physicist and powerful leader in the worldwide, growing movement towards organic food, describes her vision for the diverse, healthy ecosystems that once sustained, can provide ample food for humanity. Part of her experience is the nearly 5,000 years of agriculture in India - one of the longest, and perhaps an example for other places seeking a sustainable future.
In a stunning critique, she describes her research demonstrating that organic, diverse food-ecosystems provide far more food, better quality food, better ecosystems/habitat, and more profitability for organic farmers. From the interview:
“A typical farm in India has two hundred and fifty species. And two hundred and fifty species in concert and in harmony will produce more food than the most chemically intensive farm of the Midwest in the United States.”
"We are repeatedly told that there is no way out of chemicals because chemicals produce more food.”
"There is far more intelligence and far more knowledge involved in understanding the soil; in understanding how an earthworm works.”
"Over these last few decades as I’ve worked more and more deeply with agriculture, I have realized that the only way to reliably feed ourselves is to ensure that we first feed other species. We have to see farming as feeding the earthworms. We have to see farming as feeding the bees. And humans will get good food and abundant food as a side effect, but the moment we try to use violent instruments that kill the very basis of our co-workers that make food possible, we will never be able to solve this issue.”
Using first-hand investigations, she shows how the debt-cycle of chemical monoculture farming is impoverishing farmers while devastating the ecosystems that sustain our food supply.
Dr. Shiva describes how the farm debt burden of chemical monocultures underlies the terrible suicide problems faced by Indian farmers - and how organic farmers are profitable.
Her vision is an important counterpoint to the discredited notion that chemical monocrop agriculture was preferential.
Author Krista Keenan interviewed Dr. Shiva at the Delhi offices of Navdanya, Dr. Shiva's NGO.
Hindi rough translation:
वंदना: शिव खुद फ़ीड करने के लिए, पहले अन्य प्रजातियों फ़ीड
डॉ. वंदना शिवा, एक भौतिक विज्ञानी और दुनिया भर में शक्तिशाली नेता, जैविक खाद्य की ओर बढ़ रहा आंदोलन, निरंतर पारिस्थितिकी प्रणालियों का वर्णन है कि एक बार उसकी दृष्टि के लिए विविध, स्वस्थ, मानवता के लिए पर्याप्त भोजन प्रदान कर सकते हैं. अनुभव उसे पार्ट साल भारत में कृषि के लगभग 5,000 है - एक लंबे समय तक की है, और भविष्य में एक स्थायी स्थान की तलाश शायद एक अन्य उदाहरण के लिए.
एक चौंकाने आलोचना में, वह अपने प्रदर्शन है कि कार्बनिक, विविध खाद्य पारितंत्रों कहीं अधिक भोजन, बेहतर गुणवत्ता का भोजन, बेहतर पारिस्थितिकी वास / कार्बनिक किसानों के लिए और अधिक लाभ प्रदान अनुसंधान वर्णन करता है. साक्षात्कार से:
"भारत में एक ठेठ खेत है दो सौ और पचास प्रजातियों. और दो सौ और पचास संगीत समारोह में प्रजातियों और सद्भाव में सबसे रासायनिक संयुक्त राज्य अमेरिका में मिडवेस्ट की गहन खेत से अधिक खाद्य उत्पादन होगा. "
"हम बार बार बताया जाता है कि वहाँ रसायनों के बाहर कोई रास्ता नहीं है क्योंकि रसायनों और अधिक भोजन का उत्पादन होता है."
"वहाँ कहीं अधिक बुद्धि और कहीं अधिक मिट्टी समझ ज्ञान में शामिल है, को समझने में केंचुआ कैसे काम करता है."
"इन पिछले कुछ दशकों में के रूप में मैं काम किया है और अधिक से अधिक गहरा कृषि के साथ, मुझे लगता है कि केवल मज़बूती फ़ीड खुद को सुनिश्चित करना है कि हम पहली बार अन्य प्रजातियों फ़ीड तरीका है. एहसास हो गया है हम केंचुआ खिलाने के रूप में खेती देखने के लिए है हम. मक्खियों को खिला के रूप में खेती देखने के लिए है. और इंसानों अच्छा खाना और एक पक्ष प्रभाव के रूप में प्रचुर मात्रा में भोजन मिल जाएगा, लेकिन फिलहाल हम हिंसक उपकरणों कि हमारे सह कार्यकर्ता है कि भोजन को संभव बनाने की बहुत आधार मारने उपयोग करने का प्रयास है, हम कभी नहीं होगा इस मुद्दे को हल करने में सक्षम हो. "
पहली हाथ जांच का प्रयोग, वह दिखाता है कि कैसे Monoculture रासायनिक खेती के ऋण चक्र है, जबकि किसानों impoverishing पारिस्थितिकी प्रणालियों है कि हमारे भोजन की आपूर्ति बनाए रखने के लिए विनाशकारी.
डॉ. शिव वर्णन कैसे रासायनिक monocultures के खेत कर्ज बोझ भयानक आत्मघाती भारतीय किसानों की समस्याओं - और कैसे कार्बनिक किसानों लाभदायक हैं underlies.
उसकी दृष्टि बदनाम धारणा है कि रासायनिक monocrop कृषि तरजीही था के लिए एक महत्वपूर्ण सुर है.
लेखक Krista Keenan दिल्ली कार्यालयों में साक्षात्कार डा. शिव Navdanya, डॉ. शिव एनजीओ.
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