vue - Pablo Tittonell - Feeding the world with Agroecology - TEDxEde 2014
Pablo Tittonell is professor 'Farming Systems Ecology' at Wageningen University and one of the worlds most famous experts in the field of agriculture and ecology. He advocates intensification of agriculture by making optimal use of natural processes and the landscape to meet the worlds growing demand for food.
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A balanced diet does not need milk, fish and meat. Avegan/plant based diet is the most sustainable option for the future.
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I met him in Wageningen and I really admire his work! He has the right arguments, and he keeps it real!
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In Canada. The government supports large scale farming.
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Great speech on Agroecology..Gud job professor.We can survive and feed world population using such principles..Biotechnology is not going to solve our problems as will create ecological imbalance.Our mother nature deserves respect not just only love from humans.
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With any species besides Man, the focus would be on controlling overpopulation, not mindless catering to "growing demand." Birth control is vastly underused and it's the only way people will achieve balance with nature unless death rates skyrocket or something renders people infertile. Sex certainly won't stop!
Also, feeding people is just one facet of human overshoot. The destruction of nature will continue even faster with vain PC efforts to deny that the world is overcrowded. More and more land is getting usurped by people each day. Limits must be acknowledged and acted on. Too much "green" ideology pretends that birthrates can just be accommodated - to avoid offending ethnic groups. -
A collection of prejudices.
As a Brazilian I should remark that the "Hunger Zero" was a complete faillure. Not only the program did not last for more than a couple of years (as in reality, Brazil's has a bigger problem with obesity). The Ministry which is referred to, is simply one of the 39 other ministry created on the Lula/Dilma Administration - a way of pushing more money/power into the hands of its political allies.
As for combining "nature" with "farming", in which sense any other farming system is not doing the same? A trend, which is neglected, is the urbanization of World's population. How will a tree-based food production system (i.e. labour intensive) be a reliable food-secure system?
Why does red meat and soybeans are associated with deforestation? Did France - 200 years ago - when all forest was clear-cut was producing soybeans?
I would argue that poverty, lack of income options, subsidies in Europe, trade-barriers, unfair trading all of these have more of a impact on deforestation than simply livestock production.
I feel hard to believe that someone which is wearing a jeans (cotton), a leather belt probably having a cup of coffee/eating a banana can be a fair advocate for a low-carbon production system.
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