Creating new trails to thrive in the face of climate change
Farming and climate change
Food production under climate change and Global warming
Drawings and text by Frits Ahlefeldt, Hiking.org
Farming has changed a lot in the last hundred years, in the next it has to change even more to meet the challenges of global warming and climate change
Learning kids about local food and farming is importantDecisions about what we eat makes a huge difference to what is grown and therefore to how we can stop global warmingFarmers can be seen as the most important fighters preventing global warming, by keeping our relationship with the planet in balanceDrought… Farmers get hit first by global warming and when farmers get hit, everybody else will be hit too…The resources of the sea has been seen as unlimited, today it is realized that we need to use sustainable farming methods to both protect marine wildlife stocks and grow seafood in new ways to better manage the balance and life in the seaLocal Micro-farming can help people relate better to food. Micro farming can also learn the kids to nurture life and become more healthy. Urban and micro-farming should be seen as an introduction to the importance of farming. Not as a threat to farmingSustainable farming can help stop global warming if we change our ways to be more patient and letting plants mature, trees grow old and sprouts become long term sources of food, instead of eating whatever sprouts fastClimate sustainable farming is a lot about being aware of the changing seasons and adapt to and celebrate the natural rhythms of nature, both in our eating habits and our cultural habitsWild food can be grown and protected in areas along the rivers and coasts. both to help guard against climate change, provide food reserves and give shelter to endangered species and boost local variants of plants and herbsWe can grow food in the cities to become more climate resilient and at the same time make local neighborhoods more livable and create stronger local communitiesNew scientific knowledge teach us that the advanced life of living trees and plants are much more complex and sophisticated than we thought. By making use of the natural communication and survival strategies of these species, we might turn farming into a more sustainable way of relating to the planetFarming is about relating to the land instead of destroying it for short term profit
