Peasants feed the world, not corporations, not industries, not technocrats, not technologies.
In this episode we cover some recent news in the ag world: how the conflict in Ukraine affects global fertilizer prices and the Food Reset; how black farmers got screwed by the government and white farmers once again, how farm land is more and more inaccessible to working class and marginalized people.
After the bad news we try to draw some hope from recent studies showing that peasants feed the majority of people of the world, not industrial ag like the corporations propagandize us to think. Also we look at recent selective breeding achievements in China towards a "Seawater Rice" and climate adaptation.
Links
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-09/global-shortage-of-fertilizers-sends-demand-for-dung-soaring
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-23/russia-ukraine-tensions-spur-fears-of-fertilizer-shortages-food-price-hikes
https://brownfieldagnews.com/news/less-hope-for-a-decrease-in-fertilizer-prices/
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/farmers-flourish-under-biden-see-recovery-trump-era-trade-wars-n1288044
https://civileats.com/2022/01/03/beginning-farmers-farmers-of-color-outbid-as-farmland-prices-soar/
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/21/us/politics/black-farmers-debt-relief.html
https://off-guardian.org/2022/02/05/an-inconvenient-truth-the-peasant-food-web-feeds-the-world/
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-19/chinese-scientists-discover-how-to-grow-seawater-rice
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