Abstract
First paragraph: The challenge of preserving enough farmland for food production will be a defining challenge for 21st century. Lester Brown, icon of Worldwatch Institute, identifies food scarcity as the weak link of modern society (Brown, 2012). He points to growing global demand for food and fuel, eroding soils, declining aquifers, and global climate change as major challenges to future of human civilization. All of these challenges could be met, but not without a fundamental transformation in current ways of thinking about both land and food. A market economy will neither provide food for hungry of current generations nor preserve enough farmland to provide food for generations of future. Any society that allows markets to determine how much and what kind of land is used for food is not sustainable. This could be defining challenge of 21st century....
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The challenge of preserving enough farmland for food production will be a defining challenge for the 21st century
John Ikerd is professor emeritus of agricultural economics, University of Missouri, Columbia. He was raised on a small dairy farm in southwest Missouri and received his BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees in agricultural economics from the University of Missouri
He worked in private industry for a time and spent 30 years in various professorial positions at North Carolina State University, Oklahoma State University, University of Georgia, and the University of Missouri before retiring in 2000
Summary
The challenge of preserving enough farmland for food production will be a defining challenge for the 21st century. He spends most of his time writing and speaking on issues related to sustainability with an emphasis on economics and agriculture. Any society that allows proclaimed that land could be ethically removed markets to determine how much and what kind of from the commons only if “...there is enough, and land is used for food is not sustainable.
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