Chip. no, not a grassroots movement but certainly I don't expect that our fearless leaders will do anything but feather their own nests however possible. There is kind of a land movement happening though, the one where food is becoming really expensive and farmers are all of a sudden the flavor of the day and we're seeing more types of large scale land fertility studies than the one Keith quoted in this blog entry. The penny is beginning to drop in the main stream consciousness that large scale deforestation leads to large scale poverty of soil.
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Originally Posted by cobraboy
How is this so? Statistically, modern farms, the "corporate" farms, are significantly more productive on just about every statictical measure?
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The link that I gave explains the premise in four paragraphs (easy to read) and in 4 credible sources cited in the footnotes of the article. The main economist, Amartya Sen, is a Nobel winner. Your comment, while widely accepted, seems to be no longer accurate