Realisation of Human Rights to Adequate Food
Dr Rod Everett Backsbottom Farm
Lancaster UK
Affiliation Private + Food Futures for North Lancashire
Awareness Through UNFSS
Best practice examples Andra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming
APCNF.in .
Change from farmers committing suicide over dept to seed companies and fertilizer sales. Change from multinational control which extracts wealth from poor countries to one where farmers make their own natural fertilizers and natural pesticides at minimal cost. This form of farming enriches the soil and the nutritional value of food produced. This is regenerative and builds fertility and resilience over time.
These farmers have been teaching peasant farmers in Africa how to make biofertilizers.
IPEN in Tanzania is a farmer led training in Permaculture so that a great diversity of local food can be produced with careful management of soil water and human resources.
A key factor is crop diversity, using local seed, and keeping the soil covered at all times.
In contrast the major use of glyphosate and roundup ready seed throughout the world is destroying soil structure, chelating minerals so they are unavailable to the plants and cause long term health problems such as obesity is making food inadequate nutritionally and making farmers in debt.
The only future for adequate food lies in local regenerative farming.
For more details on farmer produced biofertilizers see Biofertilizer Manual 2nd ed JuanFranLopez. He has been teaching these techniques around the world.
See also Elaine Ingham Soil School Web where the soil is enhanced and enlivened by a balanced mix of soil organisms. These bring back soil fertility and make the plants rich nutritionally.
Please say no to multinational extraction of wealth and fertility.
Blessings
Rod Everett
Rod Everett