Thanks for this great post, Gunnar. I'd like to invite you up to Östervåla sometime soon, so we can talk about these things around the kitchen table.
Reading the latest coverage of the farmers' protests around Europe, I wonder if you have seen any useful analysis on creating a pathway for farmers from the existing globalised model towards a landscape-based food system?
Hi Dougald, yes we should meet. Regarding the pathway for farmers, I haven't seen much clever analysis, mostly quite shallow stuff how they benefit the ultra-right. I do however think they partly reflect a mismatch between the political ambitions for climate and environment and the "reality" of economy in general and for farmers in particular. Their anger is then directed toward surface issues such as nitrogen limits in the Netherlands or diesel taxes. I plan to write something on the theme, perhaps the days to come as I will sit on varoius trains 40 hours the coming four days. But I do think that any transformation will hit some farmers quite hard as they are quite stuck in investments and production models which are simply not sustainable. As I wrote about the farms in the Netherlands some time ago. https://gardenearth.substack.com/p/peak-pork-and-the-recoupling-of-people
Thanks Gunnar, for an enlightening , thought provoking article that clearly revels the horrors of the "Big Food" Industry. Profit over people continues to put Our World at risk. We really do need to turn this around, saying and doing nothing is Suicidal. We writers have a duty to inform, before it's too late.
Thanks for this great post, Gunnar. I'd like to invite you up to Östervåla sometime soon, so we can talk about these things around the kitchen table.
Reading the latest coverage of the farmers' protests around Europe, I wonder if you have seen any useful analysis on creating a pathway for farmers from the existing globalised model towards a landscape-based food system?
Hi again, here is my try: https://open.substack.com/pub/gardenearth/p/how-to-save-europes-farmers
Thank you!
Hi Dougald, yes we should meet. Regarding the pathway for farmers, I haven't seen much clever analysis, mostly quite shallow stuff how they benefit the ultra-right. I do however think they partly reflect a mismatch between the political ambitions for climate and environment and the "reality" of economy in general and for farmers in particular. Their anger is then directed toward surface issues such as nitrogen limits in the Netherlands or diesel taxes. I plan to write something on the theme, perhaps the days to come as I will sit on varoius trains 40 hours the coming four days. But I do think that any transformation will hit some farmers quite hard as they are quite stuck in investments and production models which are simply not sustainable. As I wrote about the farms in the Netherlands some time ago. https://gardenearth.substack.com/p/peak-pork-and-the-recoupling-of-people
Thanks Gunnar, for an enlightening , thought provoking article that clearly revels the horrors of the "Big Food" Industry. Profit over people continues to put Our World at risk. We really do need to turn this around, saying and doing nothing is Suicidal. We writers have a duty to inform, before it's too late.
https://suzannetaylor.substack.com/p/an-essay-contest-its-january-1-2050 offers to enhance our ability to inform a much wider readership. I will restack your article. Peace, Maurice