{"id":55721,"date":"2020-11-21T07:40:16","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T12:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55721"},"modified":"2020-11-21T07:40:16","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T12:40:16","slug":"food-for-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55721","title":{"rendered":"Food for thought"},"content":{"rendered":"

Food for thought<\/a><\/h3>\n

Leander Jones looks at the role of community supported agriculture as a 21st-century antidote to the destructive and increasingly fragile corporate agricultural model<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"Members of the Basta community supported agriculture collective working the farm. Image courtesy of Hof Basta.<\/div>\n

In the past few decades fundamental flaws in the global food system have been increasingly thrust into the public eye. The rise of industrial agriculture \u2013 combining increased use of fertilisers and pesticides with aesthetics-focused crop modification and long-distance transportation \u2013 has led to\u00a0devastation of the environment<\/a>\u00a0and turbocharged an extractive model that thrives on exploitation of the world\u2019s producers. The relentless quest to maximise production \u2013 and profits \u2013 per acre is destroying the very land on which this production depends. It is akin to setting your house on fire to save on energy bills.<\/p>\n

The fragility of food systems is being\u00a0exposed by the Covid-19 crisis<\/a>\u00a0as global production and transportation have been rocked. The UN Food and Agriculture programme has warned of \u2018biblical\u2019 famine threatening hundreds of millions of people.<\/p>\n

Making space<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alternative models of non-industrial food production have historical roots stretching back decades and are numerous in their iterations.\u00a0Community-supported agriculture (CSA) is one example<\/a>. As a practice it seeks to connect consumers directly with producers, with the aim of fostering community, creating fair exchange and sharing risks. The idea\u2019s growth and popularity correlates with the rise of environmentalism.<\/p>\n

Basta (\u2018Enough\u2019 in Italian) is a CSA collective that has been running since 2013 near Berlin. The founders, Anna and Olli, bought a plot of land with the help of the Kulturland Genossenschaft (Cultivated Land Cooperative), in which small producers pool their resources to buy land and take it off the market. Individual farmers pay a yearly tariff back to Kulturland, while the land is owned in common.<\/p>\n

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Food for thought Leander Jones looks at the role of community supported agriculture as a 21st-century antidote to the destructive and increasingly fragile corporate agricultural model Members of the Basta community supported agriculture collective working the farm. Image courtesy of Hof Basta. In the past few decades fundamental flaws in the global food system have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[30608,1912,5720,30609,3207,16940],"class_list":["post-55721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-community-suported-agriculture","tag-food-production","tag-industrial-agriculture","tag-leander-jones","tag-local-food-production","tag-red-pepper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55722,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55721\/revisions\/55722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}