Old friend, Dr. Miguel Altieri, and “Vía Campesina believe[s] that in order to protect livelihoods, jobs, people’s food security, and health as well as the environment, food production has to remain in the hands of small-scale sustainable farmers and cannot be left under the control of large agribusiness companies or supermarket chains. Only by changing the export-led, free-trade based, industrial agriculture model of large farms can the downward spiral of poverty, low wages, rural-urban migration, hunger, and environmental degradation be halted.” … With global systems of small-scale sustainable farmers practicing de facto positively ethical applied community agroecology, we are closer to Nature and living the Land Ethic.