A Message for Climate Change Negotiators: Small Farmers Key to Combating Climate Change
It's little wonder. The Via Campesina Declaration casts small farmers in the developing world as both global warming's victims and a potential solution. ... While industrial agriculture is one of the world's biggest climate culprits, small-scale farmers actually cool the planet. Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
This fits in with the movement to grow locally and shop locally, which also reduces carbon costs for transport, and, if organic, reduces use of petroleum derived fertilizer, pesticides, and herbicides.