All, Of course not! Transformation of forests to agriculture has been a disaster all over the world. This is because industrial agriculture systems are slaves to chemical and genetic industries. Thanks to Monsanto, and others... Forests converted to chemical agriculture is the main thing. Chemical agriculture to organic agriculture is the 'newer' sustainable thing, and organic to Biodynamic is the spiritually sustainable thing. Or something like that...
Yes, you can find some examples of good management, and proper forest-to-agricultural conversions, but they are mostly the local initiative of earth loving people, such as Biodynamic practitioners, or other cultures such as the first nations of north America. Have a look at the C-Dar World Forest Foundation http://www.c-dar.com. They are both converting a forest to an agricultural land, and developing a method for bringing BD to forests... (that parts in the making...). Again... sustainability is subjective and a question of tradeoffs. What values do we want to sustain? Who is we? Cheers, Robin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Pye" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 13 octobre, 2002 04:16 Subject: Re: forest to farm > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Sure, we been doing that for three hundred and fifty years in the usa. > > > But with what long-standing - sustainable - success? > > roger > >
