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Students of Geoff’s Online Permaculture Design Course have question-and-answer sessions where Geoff fields a number of questions every week and answers them via videos. This question was pulled from the 2021 collection. For more permaculture insights, check out the free Masterclass at https://www.discoverpermaculture.com

Question

Big industry claims they are there to meet the ever-growing demand for food supplies. What do we offer as a foundation for our arguments that we can do the same, better? How long would it take to start feeding the world if transitioned wholesale to permaculture today? What would the transition cost humanity? Wouldn’t there be sacrifice involved?

Key Takeaways

We could do it very quickly with no sacrifice: healthier food, less pollution, overabundance. Industrial agriculture doesn’t provide us with nearly the diversity we could produce ourselves. Urban agriculture produces hundreds of times more food per square meter with more diversity and soil production. Peri-urban agriculture cuts down significantly on food miles and uses the wastes from town to build up soil quality and nutrient density.

Industrial agriculture is based on convenient exploitation of the earth for money, with food quality and employment constantly dropping. Industrial agriculture specializes in producing low nutritional weight whereas our systems are built to provide nutrient density without toxic chemicals, huge transport costs, massive inputs, and excess energy. The switch would be a conscious choice, not a sacrifice. We can produce the same nutrition on four percent of the equivalent area, sensibly located, currently used on industrial food production. We could do this by the next season. That fast.

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About Geoff:

Geoff is a world-renowned permaculture consultant, designer, and teacher that has established demonstration sites that function as education centers in all the world’s major climates. Geoff has dedicated his life to spreading permaculture design across the globe and inspiring people to take care of the earth, each other, and to return the surplus.

About Permaculture:

Permaculture integrates land, resources, people, and the environment through mutually beneficial synergies – imitating the no waste, closed-loop systems seen in diverse natural systems. Permaculture applies holistic solutions that are applicable in rural and urban contexts and at any scale. It is a multidisciplinary toolbox including agriculture, water harvesting and hydrology, energy, natural building, forestry, waste management, animal systems, aquaculture, appropriate technology, economics, and community development.

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