Understanding food production and how to make it work for everyone

 

Clearly, I am not going to answer all your questions here and now, but this post was inspired by yet another inadequate attempt to solve the problem of supply and demand in Agriculture . 
Fortunately for all those who have read this far , the centuries old study of economics and now ecology has brought forth some fruits to help us , at least partially resolve this in practice.
I will hopefully follow up with logical frameworks for action,  links and responses . 
Again, let me say, I am not going to say why Marxism is still providing a very immature response to this world wide problem but neither ( just yet ) am I going to say why Capitalist economies are far too comfortable with their own careless exploitation of the earth and its people . No political imperatives are adequate and their faulty elements need careful probing to be exposed. 

The thing is, economics can provide us with workable answers if we are willing to all get on the same train together with nature. Clearly the above-named divisions remain a handicap. 

As YOU  are NOW here , stay with me. 
Fairness is not a nature thing,  but it is in my mind the human thing and it is more than a mere aim but an inspiration worth fighting for.
Please ask questions. 

This was my original post to an inadequate statement about solving a problem at the supply and demand intersection this week in Australia.   

IF we taught our children properly about economics we would very CLEARLY run a fairer system than we do -- and that's saying something because Marxists ( and farmers and polys etc ) and many inadequately studied agents for change have been meddling in " how to fix things " for centuries now. While being patient and making better choices can help, deeper eco wisdom is the more reliable and rewarding place to put our heads.

All of us here on line know such wisdom is still not common wisdom ----yet!

Understanding the complexities of ecology as it applies to food production will not stop people exploiting each other, BUT if the best ways to improve the system was known and more widely adopted, the profit margin exploiters ( the easily rich) would not be able to exploit producers and purchasers the way they currently do ---economics and its twin sister ecology , would be better managed. And its not rocket science.

Our children need to know these things and be inspired to work at the wonderfully productive resilient rewarding and interesting coalface of nature . http://designwithnature.blogspot.com