Robert Jordan Speaker Information for the NCCSD International Conference on – Water, Energy Nexus in the Arena of Climate Change’ on the 14th to 16th ‘Food, October, 2016 in Gujarat, India Subject: Organic Food & Farming in the Context of Climate Change, and Food, Water & Livelihood Security Title: Farmer Led Solutions to Climate Change, and Food, Water & Livelihood Security Today’s organic farming systems based on agro-ecology such as with ‘planting space’, and pull’ and are all highly productive and when ‘push ‘pasture-cropping’ combined with innovative low-cost marketing and quality guarantee systems help to put farmers back in control of their livelihoods. Based on the intentional intensification of symbiotic ecological functions and smart farming practices, organic farming systems are largely independent of expensive agricultural inputs and thereby free farmers from cycles of debt, increase profits and provide farming families, local communities and national and international markets with high quality chemical free nutrition. By harnessing natural ecosystems and their functions, such as photosynthesis, organic farming systems capture high levels of CO2 from the atmosphere in the form of soil organic matter, which builds
Robert Jordan – Speaker Information for the NCCSD International Conference on ‘Food, Water, Energy Nexus in the Arena of Climate Change’ on the 14th to 16th October, 2016 in Gujarat, India Subject: Organic Food & Farming in the Context of Climate Change, and Food, Water & Livelihood Security Title: Farmer Led Solutions to Climate Change, and Food, Water & Livelihood Security Today’s organic farming systems based on agro-ecology such as ‘planting with space’, ‘push and pull’ and ‘pasture-cropping’ are all highly productive and when combined with innovative low-cost marketing and quality guarantee systems help to put farmers back in control of their livelihoods. Based on the intentional intensification of symbiotic ecological functions and smart farming practices, organic farming systems are largely independent of expensive agricultural inputs and thereby free farmers from cycles of debt, increase profits and provide farming families, local communities and national and international markets with high quality chemical free nutrition. By harnessing natural ecosystems and their functions, such as photosynthesis, organic farming systems capture high levels of CO2 from the atmosphere in the form of soil organic matter, which builds
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