{"id":333,"date":"2011-02-15T14:37:36","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T13:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mr-int.ch\/?p=333"},"modified":"2011-02-15T14:47:10","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T13:47:10","slug":"sustainable-and-intensive-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mr-int.ch\/?p=333&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable AND intensive agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Over the next forty years humankind will face the huge challenge to be well fed in a sustainable way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Agriculture must continue to increase its productivity and, as no new cultivated area will be available, this will need to be made by intensification.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Contra-productive policies should be critically questioned, such as locally targeted farm subsidies, support of organic farming, and narrow minded application of the precaution principle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Public money should be rather spent on providing actual solutions to the intensification question, and on vulgarisation of the results.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Knowledge, products and methods can be developed toward this dual goal:<br \/>\n<strong> sustainable <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and<\/span> intensive agriculture.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You can get a copy of the full document by <a title=\"Contact Form\" href=\"http:\/\/mr-int.ch\/contactforme.html\" target=\"_blank\">contacting me on my Web site<\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the next forty years humankind will face the huge challenge to be well fed in a sustainable way.<br \/>\nAgriculture must continue to increase its productivity and, as no new cultivated area will be available, this will need to be made by intensification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":7,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-politics","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mr-int.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mr-int.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mr-int.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mr-int.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mr-int.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mr-int.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mr-int.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mr-int.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mr-int.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}