The world is facing a global land squeeze as food, feed, fiber and fuel demand rises. How to manage it? 🧪 - PRODUCE more food and fiber sustainably on existing working lands - PROTECT remaining natural ecosystems - REDUCE waste and growth in demand for land-intensive goods - RESTORE degraded lands - ThreadSky

waiterich.bsky.social • 139 days ago

The world is facing a global land squeeze as food, feed, fiber and fuel demand rises. How to manage it? 🧪

- PRODUCE more food and fiber sustainably on existing working lands
- PROTECT remaining natural ecosystems
- REDUCE waste and growth in demand for land-intensive goods
- RESTORE degraded lands

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leahshaffer.bsky.social•137 days ago

Grow a bunch of stuff in tanks of microbes and feed them acetate instead? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S254243512400429X

waiterich.bsky.social•137 days ago

Will need to read this first…

mollita.bsky.social•113 days ago

Emphasis on soil health (over round-up ready). I hate all caps and still it was hard not to write that in all caps. (She says watching the new LibertyLink take over where Monsanto left off...)

bhny.bsky.social•139 days ago

birth control?

sterlingwright.bsky.social•107 days ago

There are many solutions for innovating land use in the ag sector. A couple that would be appropriate to introduce onto existing agricultural lands are the planting of standardized, permaculture Guilds in place of mono-crop rows, and incorporating native plants. Also, vertical planting outdoors

rita-280.bsky.social•52 days ago

Hi 👋

mtobis.bsky.social•129 days ago

Also - Stop eating factory farmed meat, dairy and eggs.

dcminx.bsky.social•12 days ago

📌

brooklynkid53bskys.bsky.social•139 days ago

Uh, eat less meat ?
put BIG taxes on 2nd homes, large cars, all cars , private jets, all air travel ?

nkdgardener.bsky.social•120 days ago

- BALANCE global inequalities
- DEINDUSTRIALISE food production
- STOP the corporate capitlisation of food production

reconnectsreiki.bsky.social•137 days ago

📌 earth climate

whytetara.bsky.social•98 days ago

And remember

paintedhandfarm.bsky.social•86 days ago

How about we start using the fiber that we produce? I can’t tell you how many farmers have to throw out their wool because no one will buy it, process it, and use it. We would rather wear our petroleum based PataGucci clothing.

waiterich.bsky.social•86 days ago

Yes, that is part of “reduce waste” which applies to food and fiber

mybookstand.bsky.social•16 days ago

https://www.alternet.org/farmers-usda-freeze-trump/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feb.21.2025_1.44pm

farawaywatcher.bsky.social•61 days ago

Perhaps eat less meat too. Beans and pulses more efficiently provide our needs.

waiterich.bsky.social•61 days ago

It’s in the article. Part of REDUCE

charlesworringham.bsky.social•32 days ago

The comparison is even worse for India, where agricultural land is even more precious. https://ieefa.org/articles/ieefa-solar-recharging-electric-vehicles-far-more-efficient-use-land-ethanol-crops-blended

veganfta.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Surely the first step is dump animal products. Your views on veganism?

anthonysimpson.bsky.social•92 days ago

Hi Richard. One crucial missing piece of the puzzle is the food we eat. Are you familiar with papers and extraordinary findings by Poore and Nemecek, and Harwatt and Hayek? E.g. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-020-00603-4

waiterich.bsky.social•92 days ago

Oh it’s covered in the article I shared under “Reduce.” Yes, these are important papers.

dancingnutz.bsky.social•90 days ago

Are you vegan?

bookartsglaneur.bsky.social•92 days ago

Published in 2021. Still paywalled. No public access to publically funded research.

klimaatzuster.bsky.social•53 days ago

Simple: by eating no or less meat and dairy. The meat lobby is using the same tactics as the fossil industry because more and more people are seeing the bigger picture: we are feeding nature to livestock. In 🇳🇱, 72% of agricultural land (in NL 55% of total land use) is used for livestock and dairy.

ba55fr33k.bsky.social•39 days ago

this will help but we need several parallel solutions

i was really happy to hear Greenpeace success in NL regarding the recent overproduction of animals resulting in terrible pollution of waterways

klimaatzuster.bsky.social•53 days ago

Change your diet and give nature back its space. Carolyn Steel wrote #Sitopia, @georgemonbiot.bsky.social https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/08/save-planet-meat-dairy-livestock-food-free-range-steak

#Rewilding

tilmane.bsky.social•94 days ago

What is your take:

Promote more organic production which needs more land, or more intensive conventional to safe Land for Renaturation ?

evilceldrud.bsky.social•116 days ago

Darwin found spiders in the middle of the Atlantic- they had floated there on their webs - why not air farming possibly using hydrogen for lift? Also kelp and sea grasses in marine ecosystems deliberately tweaked, sea rewilding

evilceldrud.bsky.social•116 days ago

Remember there are other places to grow food, in water, up and down:-)

subikuppuswami.bsky.social•105 days ago

Shouldn’t more responsible consumption leading to much reduced wastage be the #1 action?

ralisonadcock.bsky.social•28 days ago

📌

eyedawg.bsky.social•88 days ago

Are you greenwashing for corporations?

oilvia05.bsky.social•48 days ago

Hello

matthewhayek.bsky.social•139 days ago

Per @rachgarr.bsky.social's perspective on supporting socio-bioeconomies, I'd also add 'EMPOWER'. This bolsters REDUCE, RESTORE, and PROTECT pillars of the strategy & ensures that their benefits are socially equitable. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-024-02467-9

adamcalo.bsky.social•139 days ago

Interestingly, this appears to create tensions with the produce pillar. As in, in what ways does a commitment to maximizing production disempower?

waiterich.bsky.social•139 days ago

Without a focus on improving people’s well-being, any of these four pillars could disempower instead of empower.

sweetsonorous.bsky.social•105 days ago

Yes!!! 👏 💕

petersopinion.bsky.social•105 days ago

Couldn't agree more. The whole: PRODUCE more sustainably, PROTECT, and RESTORE paradigm is approaching it from a Western perspective. We Western people have caused most of the problems, but now we want emerging economies to safe our planet, without caring about their economic and social needs.

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