The 4 major threats to industrialized agriculture — Fred Kirschenmann speaks
http://www.non-gmoreport.com/articles/january-2015/fred-kirschenmann-on-farming-as-a-self-regulating-self-renewing-system.php
Fred Kirschenmann is a leader in “organic” agriculture and a pragmatic practitioner. In this short reading (first url) upon which to reflect, and which I am hopeful leads to your reading of his Cultivating an Ecological Conscience and listening to his YouTube presentations—we are introduced to Fred’s positions on conventional agriculture’s shortcomings (“energy constraints,” “water availability,” “climate change,” and “ecological degradation”) and the hope of a food revolution and changing foodsheds toward resilience and sustainability.