FOOD

How Can the Urgent Food Crisis Change Our Farming to Fertile, Living Soil?

Regenerative farming might finally take off

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Can the food crisis that’s now looming because of the war in Ukraine be a huge opportunity for a fast transition toward regenerative local farming? Will we finally educate farmers and local citizens quickly to produce their food using fertile living soil?

David Beasley, Executive Director for the UN World Food Programme, says there’s nothing we can do. He’s just downscaling food supplies to countries who need it.

We think we are trapped.

• We have no food supply because the grain shed of the world, Ukraine, is only producing for their own people now
• There are problems with the supply and prices of chemical fertilizers. Because the largest European factory Yara has trouble paying the excessively rising gas bills. The factory is located in my country. And if the gas supply becomes even more problematic, they might be closed down. We have a law in the Netherlands that says citizens come first in energy supply. So companies that need lots of energy can be closed down

But all of this can be a good opportunity instead of a problem.