Solutions From the Land Initiative Announced
Several organizations are partnering to find sustainable solutions.
Compiled by staff
Published: Feb 17, 2011
Sustainable solutions to the challenges of food and energy security, economic development, biodiversity conservation and climate change are the goals of the Solutions from the land initiative, just introduced. The initiative's organizers say it will examine how land, water and other natural resources can be managed in an integrated manner at the scale necessary to meet these challenges, both here in the United States and across the globe.
The United Nations Foundation, Conservation International, The Nature Conservancy and Farm Foundation are the founding sponsors of the new initiative. They will be joined by agriculture and forestry groups, conservation interests, businesses, nongovernmental organizations, universities, land users' associations and bilateral and multilateral institutions, all seeking to ensure agricultural systems, forests and other land uses are managed in a way that addresses the needs of a changing world.
A.G. Kawamura, co-chairman of the "design team" charged with guiding the initiative, says they believe that by 2050, resources can be managed to simultaneously satisfy domestic and global demand for safe, abundant and affordable food, feed, and fiber, while supporting economic security and sustainable development. Co-chair Tory Lovejoy says they're developing systems that can work over the long haul; systems that reward incremental progress against what we know are very bold goals.
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Government encroachment hidden under the sheep's mantle of "sustainability." Last I looked I didn't elect these arrogant (fill in the blanks) to dictate their ideas of growing crops to me. I would bet not one of them ever produced anything other than a paycheck. Just give the farm money to the schoolkids and let us manage our own affairs on the farm! Better yet, just let them make suggestions for the improvement of Amtrak or the Postal Service to give them something to do!!! By the wway, I like TEA with my cornbread!
Posted by iowafarm on February 17 at 7:48 AM
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The farm initiative is fine and good except that the "design team" is zoning MY land! Last I looked, my farmland belonged to me not to some pie-in-the-sky zoning board that thinks they more than I do about how to grow crops and manage my land. Maybe these pundits should start by going to Farm Credit and applying for a loan, taking out all their savings, and buying farmland, put in a crop, harvest it and THEN tell me what I should do to feed the world! This initiative will result in more regulation of my property. Now it just isn't the local city "planners" I have to worry about, or the EPA, DNR,FSA, IRS, etc. but now it is proposals for the "Dharma Initiative!"
Posted by iowafarm on February 17 at 7:41 AM
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