Don't You Wish This Was a Reformed US Agriculture Department Study?

Well, we can dream can't we and work to make those dreams reality - yes we can!

clipped from www.worldwatch.org Worldwatch Institute Launches Initiative to Assess Agricultural Methods’ Impacts on Sustainability, Productivity Among the many innovations and approaches that Worldwatch plans to examine are: Adding nitrogen-fixing plants into crop rotations as a low-cost solution for enriching soils and breaking weed and pest cycles; Overcoming freshwater shortages with rain harvesting, efficient irrigation, micro dams, and cover cropping; Strengthening local breeding capacity, including the use of farmer-run seed banks and genetic markers of important crop traits; Tapping international carbon-credit markets to reward farmers for enriching their soils and planting carbon-sequestering tree crops; Involving women farmers in decision-making at all levels.