I've been farming on this land for about five years... since 2007, and I'm certified organic since 2001.

This is the agriculture.

Now, the most mindless epidemic we're in the middle of right now is this absurd battle between proponents of genetically engineered food and the organic elite.

You could put her in a county fair.

And this leads to very high handling costs.

He was the most respected scientist in the field.

In Tanzania last week, we had the launch of the East African Organic Produce Standard.

Well, isn't blank the answer? organic food,

Now, this would require nutrients and water.

So we plant the trees, we plant these pineapples and beans and ginger in between, to reduce the competition for the trees, the crop fertilizer.

Again, gathering together farmers, gathering together stakeholders in East Africa to get standards for organic produce.

That said, a lot of work goes into these.

The chief crop of our country is rice.

I've been an organic farmer my entire life... and I've been, um, in the last eight years, been certified organic.

Separate your garbage! Organic, schmorganic!

The global food supply relies heavily on fossil fuels.

Principal industry farming.

They're everywhere.

He worked with his mother Mother

Perhaps some of them have some ideas on how to move forward.

The farm production of this year is better than we expected.

I surmised that I could introduce

We want to clear away the toxic soil from this area and have an organic garden.

There are a lot of farmers doing this today.

Japan is the largest importer of U.S. farm products.

Crops?

I wanted to be an NFL football player.

People need to eat, he told me. I feed thousands!

The effect of this, of course, is it's not just amber waves of grain, it is mountains of stuff.

So what we have to do, I think, is invent a new kind of agriculture that blends the best ideas of commercial agriculture and the green revolution with the best ideas of organic farming and local food and the best ideas of environmental conservation, not to have them fighting each other but to have them collaborating together to form a new kind of agriculture, something I call terraculture, or farming for a whole planet.

Potentially 2 billion people could have their food disrupted by such interventions.

Now this quest started four billion years ago on planet Earth.

Let's see. Growin' crops

Within the Solidarity Economy, the production respects the natural envioronment

The agriculture produces food without agrochemicals. there're different commitments to the work, the income generation and solidarity, everybody's health and the environment.

And by the way in the physical world the classic is real estate brokers.

The artisanal movement is huge.

The extended family system pools its resources together.

We need to face 'the other inconvenient truth.'

A weapon which will destroy organic matter, but leave machines unharmed.

Advocates of commercial agriculture, environmental conservation, and organic farming... must work together.

Aside from transport, cars, trucks and airplanes, agriculture is the most fossil fuel intensive industry.

We have now about 425,000 samples of unique crop varieties.

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And even that isn't as straightforward as it may seem.