Agroecology in China: 300% Increase on 8.6 Million Acres - Loess Plateau
Excerpts from Hope in a Changing Climate (http://www.open.edu/openlearn/whats-on/ou-on-the-bbc-hope-changing-climate) Part I: Loess Plateau, China - http://youtu.be/sK8JNXHcBMA Part II: Ethiopia - http://youtu.be/mbEM6DCTK3Y Part III: Rwanda - http://youtu.be/BVxVC7PuEL8 Large, decimated ecosystems can be restored. Bringing large areas back from environmental ruin is possible, and the results are key to stabilizing the earth's climate, eradicating poverty and making sustainable agriculture a reality. Under the guidance of a few people who have knowledge and vision, local uneducated rural poor can to restore empty, degraded ecosystems -- transforming them into fertile, life-sustaining environments which enable people to break free from entrenched poverty. This is the simple application of Agricultural Natural Technology Solutions and Permaculture Design principles, such as earthworks, water harvesting, soil building, creating biodiversity. The area of restoration on the Loess Plateau in China is the size of Belgium and thousands of years of subsistence farming had made it barren and infertile. In 1995 the Chinese Government, with support from The World Bank, took drastic action to rehabilitate the plateau, and local people -- seen as both perpetuators and victims of the devastation -- became part of the solution. They completely transformed 8.6 million acres of wasteland into hyper-productive land. This caused a 300% increase in agricultural income and enabled millions of local family farmers to break free from entrenched poverty. Anybody can take a Permaculture Design Course and learn how to do this in their local area or internationally. There are over 1,000 such courses taught all over the world each year. You can find one here: http://permacultureglobal.com/users or take one online: http://permaculturevisions.com It is time to solve hunger worldwide, through creating local food abundance.... Anyone can do it, once you learn how. (Thank you Environmental Education Media Project & Dr. John D. Liu)
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因该感到自豪,还是做了很多事情的
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That´s one of the biggest problems here in Brazil, farmers stops agricultire to raise cattle, ´´its so stupidiy trying resolve one problem and creating many more´´
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Keep eating meat and we all are going to die. 85% of the agricultural harvest is used to feed animals
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Great example of how permaculture again converts flash floods and deserts to abundance throughout the years. So many of us still believe all flash floods and land slides are natural catastrophes beyond our control. Nearly all these events have been directly caused by modern agriculture and industrial deforestation. The reversal through swales and terracing means irrigation is replaced by natural slow waterflows that not only provide water for growth but also then start to replenish the ground water with slow filtered pure water. In California ground water is now being used for irrigation and helpless attempts to store water in rapidly evaporating reservoirs are being made. The permaculture option stores rain water in the soil and the ground, even if it only rains once or twice a year. Rains that become absorbed and keep streams and rivers flow slowly throughout the year without drying up. The way it was before modern agriculture.
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The farmers were given private contacts to land, Their efforts were paid for and the they earned money from the crops directly. They were responsible for the success or failure of their own land. They took an interest in their own success. See episode 3 of the 6 part series, between minutes 5:30 and 8:30. Even China realizes that on some level socialism sucks. If only they would drop the Climate change PS which has almost nothing to do with permaculture other than justification for government taxation via carbon credits. Compost creates carbon.
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Permaculture works: everybody should watch and understand this short clip showing how the desertification process can be reversed.....
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Wow!
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Beautiful and Brilliant!! Now if they can insure protection of heirloom seed and make sure MONSANTO does not infiltrate with their evil seed and evil ways plaguing lands with the GMO (genetically modified organism) crops, they will prosper and increase a wealth of health.
Monsanto have been greedily trying to and planning to corner the WORLDS food market. -
I am all for doing what they are doing but I wish they would stop talking about the carbon crap! The global warming is part of a natural cycle if in fact it actually exists which in fact I seriously doubt that it does because scientists have been caught cooking the numbers! At any rate this talk of sequestering carbon is something that is a non issue and they should stop talking about it.!!!!!!
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I watched a video about the permaculture project that predated and set the pattern for the original, highly-successful restoration of a horribly degraded area in China, I cannot recall if it was Bill Mollison's project, but if it was bot, it certainly was one of his student's, Right now I am too busy taking Geoff Lawton's Permaculture Design Course to spend any time looking for it - but I urge you to check out each man's work - great to see this wonderful result in action!
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amazing results! I would love to see/read more about the actual tactics taken to get these results. would love to apply to a homestead!
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There is a light and we, the western civilization, refuse to go to it and rather spend our money for new cars and a lot of things we absolutely dont need
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Exciting and inspiring.
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We need to viral this documentary and spread this belief and take actions in large scale.
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This shows it can be done. We need to step back & actually look at what the problems are and look at the bigger picture, not just for the longer term but repair & benefits in the shorter and mid term as well. The impoverished need to eat in the meantime.So long as they can by some means, feed their family in the transition time, much more of this will happen around the world.They need to know that their families wont starve and educate them in a better balanced thriving & productive ecosystem.
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A little obsession with carbon in this documentary.
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apparently weed also makes you ignore your grammar and spelling or even make you color blind to even see the red squiggly lines that helps you not to look like a complete moron before commenting
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Tell that to GMOnsanto
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Awesome
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you know what they did in Japan to solve this same issue?? same problem to, what farmer wants to plant unproductive trees? so, this guy explained to the farmers if they planted a diversity, fruit trees, nut trees, shrubs, ect, the next generation would benefit as well the hills were saved in the process.
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