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Sustainable agribusiness
Posted on October 27, 2004
In Seeds of Hope: South Africa, African women find solutions to hunger and poverty via sustainable agriculture methods. But what happens when you have perfectly fertile soil and produce but your local community chooses to buy food elsewhere? Sustainable agriculture takes on a whole new meaning in North America where agribusiness determines which farms and orchards can sustain themselves.
In British Columbia, Canada, apples are being imported from New Zealand—7,500 miles from the rich and ripe soil of the BC's Okanagan Valley. Local orchards have been closing because apples from another hemisphere eare cheaper for consumers.
This past issue of Adbusters magazine calls attention to this agricultural phenomenon. Read Nicholas Klassen's article The Real Cost of Food