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Posted: Dec/08/2007 7:53 AM PST
Did you guys realise that we have 6 billion people on this planet today, and it'll be 9 to 10 billion in 30 to 40 years.  To meet current levels of food intake, we will need to double the land for agriculture. |
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Posted: Dec/10/2007 8:32 PM PST
What is your suggestion?? |
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Posted: Dec/11/2007 10:40 AM PST
well, since they aren't making any more land, I bet that agdevgrp has other ideas. Let's hear them! |
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Posted: Dec/11/2007 12:47 PM PST
Last time I heard agdevgrp was in south africa teaching the farmers how to farm. John |
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Posted: Dec/12/2007 7:36 PM PST
hee hee |
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Posted: Dec/12/2007 9:05 PM PST
How about everyone go on a diet???????? Ha! Ha!
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Posted: Dec/13/2007 3:28 PM PST
Quote: Originally posted by gimlet How about everyone go on a diet???????? Ha! Ha!You took the words right out of my mouth,  , no pun intended
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Posted: Dec/22/2007 7:43 PM PST
Quote: Originally posted by gimlet How about everyone go on a diet???????? Ha! Ha!Or give up our lawns and plant taters! |
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Posted: Dec/23/2007 8:39 AM PST
http://nymag.com/news/features/30020/ Skyfarming. |
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Posted: Dec/30/2007 4:40 PM PST
We could all take a lesson from the WWII era and plant Victory gardens, growing our own food (tho' most of us here already do that). A few chickens can also easily fit in even the tiniest of yards to provide eggs, not to mention the fact that rabbits can be raised in stacked cages in a garage or back room for an amazingly productive meat source. If we had to, we could give up cats for those nice edible rabbits, beagles and cocker spaniels for pygmy goats (milk, meat, garden fertilizer), German Shephard and pit bulls for potbellied pigs. Don't forget that vining varieties of tomatoes and beans can grow quite a few feet up and tend to bear for a longer period each year as opposed to bush varieties which spread out and bear for shorter periods. Small squash and pumpkins and melons can also be trellised, saving great deal of space. Other than that there is always planting double duty crops. Big ole Mangle beets for animal feed, and the leaves for boiled greens. Yellow mustard for edible leaves and seeds for mustard. Hopi Red Dye Amaranth for edible leaves for salad and cooked greens and edible seeds as well as red dye. European milking breed sheep for wool, milk, skins and meat (which can browse hillsides as opposed to cattle which need flatter ground that could be better put to use plowed and planted). Ornamental trees can easily be replaced by fruit and nut trees, hedges with berry bushes. Living in underground houses would help--the roof could double as a garden area.Not to mention the number of herb and salad gardens that could be grown on apartment rooftops in the bigger cities. Of course, if more people would be cremated, then less space would be taken up in the future by graveyards (and of course those who do want to be buried can be buried with their caskets standing up on end--would take up a lot less space !  )
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