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Post Carbon Fellow Richard Heinberg was interviewed for this piece about local food initiatives in the October edition of the St Louis Magazine. The article features Post Carbon's report The Food and Farming Transition: Toward a Post-Carbon Food System.
From the article:
The Post Carbon Institute's food and farming paper recommends a shift to hyperlocal, organic food production on small-scale farms, citing a University of Michigan study that found this method not only resulted in greater land-use efficiency, but increased crop yields. "This has been shown again and again, but economists aren't terribly impressed by it, because that assumes we have to have more people on the farm, and that's not economic efficiency. But the alternative," Heinberg states bluntly, "is starvation. People hint around these things. President Obama read a piece by Michael Pollan before he was inaugurated that made a lot of the same points as the Food and Farming Transition paper." But, he notes with some worry, there is still no serious political discourse on these issues on a national level.
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