Right around the time a barrel of oil was around $150 USD I stumbled upon an article from an "expert" saying that the solution to resolve hunger was to give more money to poor countries in order to buy more tractors and more agrochemicals! So wrong! Then a thought popped into mind: " Do something! No matter what! Anything is better than nothing! ". Mission: increasing awareness of hydroponics and aquaponics as key tools in fighting hunger around the world.
Roger Pilon, Editor
Hello everyone! How I got into hydroponics is a long story...let's just say that it involves a lot of tedious farm work as a child, unsuccessful 'dirt' gardens of my own and a near electrocution from a semi-submersible hydroponic pump. I've learned that hydroponic gardening is the only way to garden for me and I've been working at it for several years now. I've built ebb/flow, nft, Mittleider, wick and passive systems and I'm always on the lookout for the easiest and most efficient means of hydroponic gardening...If you have questions, I would be more than happy to answer them...
Bigger is no longer better in agriculture! We can build a food secure urban world with the tools now coming on line for small-scale intensive production and getting the word out on the Internet.
It's a Topsy Turvy World. In the past year the World has flipped from a global currency economy [US$] to a global commodity economy, same players with a different ball to kick around.
Steve Perls in his Washington Post column [4/30/8] reports that the surge in food price is "-creating vast new wealth for - brokers, traders, and investment houses."
The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon warns us that the food crisis could "-touch off a cascade of related crises around the world." Thirty three countries have already reported riots, protests and political disintegration.
There is a previously unforeseen urgency to establishing and improving place-based and community-based food systems worldwide. There is a much greater need than we ever imagined during the 20th century.
Urban Agriculture [place-based] technology has been improving rapidly since the 1970s. This improvement occurred parallel to the slow down and virtual standstill in the improvements in rural agriculture resulting from the 'Green Revolution of the 60s and 70s.
Bigger is no longer better in agriculture. We can build a food secure urban world with the tools now coming on line for small-scale intensive production and getting the word out on the Internet.
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