agroecology and rural farming in the world
Nov 4, 2011
I really like and loved this reading on rural farming through out the world. I grew up on Ono Farms and was weeding and growing things since I can remember. My first actual day that I can recall weeding beets and thinning carrots I was four years old. I grew up having to work in the garden and having numerous chores centered around growing our own subsistence and food. Weeding, taking out the compost all the time, picking papayas and avos, bananas, sugar cane, every vegetable that grows here in Maui....you name it that is what I did until I was 11 years old and then I decided that I could finally fend for myself at school in Hana and started going to school in the sixth grade. I did not have as much time to help in the garden or the farm because I now had to catch up in school with the curriculum and stuff but we still had huge loads of work and responsibilities that we had at home on the farm. Now coming to school I see that all the stuff that I learned at home was invaluable and has enabled me to have great knowledge that was not taught in school at all and in my opinion should be from an early level like kinderGARDEN.
Ok now the article was so great and hopeful to read. This sentence "The agroecological process requires participation and enhancement of the farmerʻs ecological literacy about their farms and resources, laying the foundation for empowerment and continuous innovation by rural communities." hits it right on the head!!! this statement was also great..." the required change is impossible without social movements that create political will among decision-makers to dismantle and transform the institutions and regulations that presently hold back sustainable agricultural development." so so true what this article articulates about our world and how backwards things are in relation to the agriculture and industry versus small farmers with organic sustainable strains and seeds as well as all the traditional and indigenous, and ancient wisdoms and traditions passed down in small farming villages all over the world. We have to get back to the kupuna generation mentality where everyone had things growing and everyone traded and shared food and knowledge instead of gigantic corporations like monsanto, costco and the government subsidizing stuff. We have to go back to the ways things were done before the great depression and before the war. We need to reinstate the circular way of living in harmony with nature as we are also nature. I could quote just about every line of this reading it was so good and had me hooked.
Mahalo,
Annjulie
Resources:
From the book “Agriculture and Food in Crisis” chapter: 14 Agroecology, Small Farms, and Food Sovereignty
Monsanto trying to control Whole Foods Market and our healthy food sources of Organic origin. Read this it is heavy
This movie talks about the green revolution that is ruining our aina and small farming in the world focus on India. It also talks a lot about Monsanto trying to control the world through food and seeds.
lots of pono knowledge on organic and bio dynamic farming from one of the best films I have ever watched:
One man, one cow, one planet.
Maonsanto in Hawaii Because of Monsanto my family cannot farm organic papayas any more due to cross- pollinating of GM papayas. There are no more GM free papayas in Hawaii anymore
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