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Agriculture in a changing economic, environmental and societal climate:
our path to a sustainable food system future
National Farmer's Union Convention November 24, 2016
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Kent Mullinix PhD, P.Ag.
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identify challenges, positive developments, opportunity motivate positive action
Intent
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We now live in a Full World
ecosystem
economy
matter
energy energy
matter
Empty World
Solar energy
ecosystem
matter
energy energy
matter
Full World
Solar energy
Daly, H., 1996 Beyond Growth
economy
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to 9.5 billion by 2050, 11.2 billion by 2100
majority urbanized (2009)
Canada- 80% urbanites
www.populationmatters.org
Population – 7.4 billion
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Rate of return on capital greater than economic growth; results in excessive wealth concentration, economic power.
Pickety, T., 2013 Capital in the 21st Century
Neo-classical economics and laissez-faire capitalism dominate
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Earth's most recent geologic time period (epoch) in which global atmospheric, geologic,
hydrologic, biospheric and other earth system processes are substantially altered by humans.
Stromberg, J., 2013 Smithsonian Magazine
Anthropocene
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The Sustainability Imperative
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No sustainable food system, no sustainable humanity.
Our food system is far from sustainable.
Our food system is the foundation of our sustainability
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Developed under relatively constant and predictable climate and weather patterns, in soils that took millennia to form
Agriculture is 11, 000 years old
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AKA: modern, conventional, industrial, factory farming
is only about 60 years old
The Production Paradigm
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To Feed the World production paradigm’s meta-ethic
Zimdahl,R. 2006
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Outcome in a nutshell
Producing more food and feeding more people that ever before
Enough grains, fruits, vegetables, meat for 3,200 calories daily/ person
1.2 billion people food insecure
3.5 million children die annually from nutritional deficiency
1.5 billion are overfed
Food First, 2006 Lang, T. and M. Heasman, 2009 Patel, R., 2007
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Canadian food insecurity
9.2% Canadian households food insecure
50% in lowest income group
Ostrey, A. 2010 Food for Thought Provincial Health Services Authority, BC
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Nutrient dilution
Yield enhancing methods tend to decrease nutrient density
Recent studies of fruits, vegetables and wheat show a 5 to 35 percent decline in nutrient density during past fifty years
A few nutrients in meat and milk have decreased by as much as 60 percent
Davis, D.R. University of Texas
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43 vegetable crops, 1950-1999
Calcium ↓ 16%
Protein ↓ 6%
Vitamin C ↓ 20%
Riboflavin ↓ 38%
Phosphorus ↓ 9%
Iron ↓ 15% Davis, Epp, Riorden, Am. J. Coll. Nutri.
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Iron in Spinach per the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Hartmann, T., 2009
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Glyphosate probable carcinogen, linked to celiac disease, autism and other ‘western diseases’
Samsel and Seneff, 2013, Introdisciplinary Toxicology 6:159-184
Samsel and Seneff, 2013, Entropy 15(4): 1416-1463
Many other food quality/ health related issues
Use of antibiotics to enhance ‘feed efficiency’ Barton, W. Nutritional Research Reviews. 13(2): 279-299 Khachatourians, G.G. Canadian Medical Assoc. Journal. 159(9): 1129-1136 Witte, W. Science 2279.5353:996-7
Excessive salt, sugar, fats
Kessler, D., 2010 Moss, M. 2014
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Our children may be the first generation with a life span shorter than their parents
Clancy, K. 2003 Union of Concerned Scientists,
‘Western disease’ epidemic obesity, diabetes, childhood onset diabetes, high cholesterol, chronic heart disease
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Canadian inflation 2008
Overall- 1.2 %
Food overall- 7.3 %
Cereal products- 12.4 %
Fruits/ vegetables- 26.9 %
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation News, 2009
Food costs outpacing inflation
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Where does our food dollar go?
Heffernan, W., 2005 In Mullinix ed.,
The Next Agricultural Revolution
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Marginal Net Farm Income
Canada 2015
≈ $6.7 billion net
≈ $33,000 net/ farm
Statistics Canada
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fuel, mechanization, pesticides, fertilizers, land
Capital (input) intensive
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National Farmers Union, 2012
Cost of production exceeds revenue potential
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“Faith in the paradigm of productivity has made most farmers not only poorer, but also exposed to
more risk.”
Pearson and Nasby University, 2008
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‘get bigger or get out’ syndrome
National Farmers Union, 2012
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Farmers are exiting/ aging
In Canada the average age of farmer ≈55 years.
Only 6% of principal farm operators under 35 years.
National Farmers Union, 2012
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Industrial agriculture’s environmental record
• Habitat/ biodiversity destruction
• Pesticide and fertilizer contamination
• Soil erosion/ salinization/ desertification
• Noxious waste/ pollution of air, water, soil
• Aquifer and ground water depletion
• Genetically Modified Organisms
• Greenhouse gas emissions
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Ethical issues abound
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Market forces fail to address or rectify these challenges
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Corporate hegemony (control)
4 corporations- 80% of Canadian and U.S. beef packing
3 corporations- 75% of Canadian and U.S. pork packing
4 corporations- 62% of Canadian flour milling
3 corporations- 95% of Canadian dairy processing
4 corporations- 62% of Canadian food retail
5 corporations- 80% of global crop seed
2 corporations- 100% of global turkey breeding and egg laying stock
National Farmers Union, 1999 Office of Consumer Affairs, Canada, 2013 Vancouver Sun, 2008 Heffernan W., 2003 Gambling, S. 2016
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“ We now have a global food system that is impervious to true consumer interests. Food is produced, processed and distributed almost entirely to meet the short-term business interests of the global food firms.”
Kirshenmann, F., Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture Iowa Sate University, In Mullinix ed., 2005
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Little economic (and therefore political) clout
Statistics Canada
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Lost credibility and social license
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Elephants in the room
impacting the sustainability of our food system now and in the future
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Agriculture uses 70% of the worlds fresh water-
we’re tapped out
The world is farming all the land there is to farm-
can’t create more
The water and land you use is precious
Brown, L., 2012 Full Planet, Empty Plates
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Global climate change wild card
Precipitation patterns/ snow pack
Irrigation water availability
Insect and disease incidence
Unpredictable and severe weather
Crop plant adaptation
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Agriculture contributes 10 - 25 % of Global GHGs
The whole agri-food system, up to 50%
Moreau, Moore and Mullinix, 2011
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Global climate change 350 ppm CO2 considered safe, now at 400 ppm
10-15% (staple) yield reduction for every 1° C increase
Mean temperatures increased 0.8° C (1.4°F) since 1980
Business as usual- will increase 6°C (11° F ) by 2100
Increased incidence of severe weather events
Greater warming in higher latitudes (Canada)
National Academy of Sciences 2009 (from Brown, L. 2012)
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the “common assumption that a warming climate will be a boon for agriculture production in northern climates is now recognized
as false”
Crawford and Beveridge, 2013
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With CO2 levels at 450 ppm
“world will face irreversible dry-season rainfall reductions much like the Dust Bowl era”
National Academy of Sciences 2009 (from Brown, L. 2012)
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99 billion livestock animals
Greenhouse gas emissions Agriculture for feed Deforestation Desertification Nitrate non-point source pollution
Brown, L., 2012 Full Planet, Empty Plates
Meat Consumption 1950 2010
Globally 50 million tonnes 280 million tonnes
Per capita 38 lbs 88 lbs
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1:5 on average 1:10 or greater for many products
1:50 for your hamburger
formerly agriculture afforded a positive EROEI 2.5:1 in 1940
Agriculture has become an energy loser negative energy return on energy invested (EROEI)
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‘Resurgence of local agriculture, bottling, canning, processing eminent’
Simmons, M., Global Oil Depletion and Implications for the Pacific Northwest, 2006
Dependence on/ use of fossil fuels not sustainable
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The socio-cultural, economic and political landscape
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End of Newtonian, mechanistic worldview
Replaced with understanding of the dynamic interconnectedness of all living and non-living things
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Everything is part of a system within a system
Inputs, Agriculture, Processing,
Storage, Distribution, Sales,
Waste, Society, Governance,
Environment
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Nature has the ethical and legal right to exist and thrive
Thackara, J., 2015
Indigenous Peoples worldview and rights acknowledged and valued
Emerging ethos
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Sustainable Economics and Capitalism
Ikerd, J., 2005
In response to the failure of neo-classical economics and laisse faire capitalism and in recognition that increased GDP does not necessarily equate to
increased happiness and satisfaction
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How can we feed the world without industrial-global agriculture?
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Dependence
Centralization
Competition
Domination of nature
Specialization
Exploitative, external costs ignored, short-term benefits
High input
Independence
Decentralization
Community
Harmony with nature
Diversity
Restraint, full accounting, long-term benefits
Renewable resources, conserve for future
Life science intensive
Ecological intensive
Competing paradigms battling it out
Adapted from: Food Wars by Lang and Heasman, 2009
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Food as Medicine
for individuals, communities, and the earth
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People want ‘local’ food and labels, they want food dollars to go to farmers
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Concern about food self-reliance and security
Dorward, Smuckler and Mullinix, 2016
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“Food is a sustaining and enduring necessity. Yet among the basic essentials for life- air, water, shelter, and food- only food has been absent over the years as a focus of serious professional planning interest. This is a puzzling omission…”
American Planning Association
Policy Guide on Community and Regional Food Planning
2007
Food System Planning linked to community
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“Local food systems increase business innovation and entrepreneurship, foster regional economic development, and support employment.”
O’Hara, J., 2011 Market Forces Report
Community and economic development driver
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Bioregional Food Systems
Operating per the environmental capacity of the bioregion, for local communities and
local economies, and in balance with an appropriate national and trans-national system
Smaller scale farming and businesses
Low input, human intensive
Environmentally sound
Alternate market channels
Community centered
Local economy focused
Harris, Nixon, Newman and Mullinix, 2016
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Targeted empowerment and support for regional scale farming and food infrastructure/ business
Hodges, J. (UN-FAO, retired), 2013 BCIA Innovations in Agrology Seminar, Vancouver Pretty, J., et al., 2011
FAO City-region Food Systems initiative http://www.fao.org/fcit/fcit-home/en/
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Millennials want to farm
Ecological farming regarded as a noble profession and an important contribution to sustainable society.
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Women the majority (new perspectives and sensibilities)
LaForge, J.M.L. (forthcoming). New Farmers in Canada: A Baseline Report National New Farmer Coalition
Most have no previous farming experience (fresh eyes and sharp intellects)
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They embrace a neo-agrarian ethic
Hold farmers and farming in high esteem, strong earth stewardship ethic and community focus,
disdain for industrial agri-food system
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Agro-ecology, the new paradigm
agricultural systems designed and managed based on biological process and ecological systems principles, e.g. organic
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50 million farmers needed in Canada and U.S. for post peak oil agriculture
20% of our population
Heinberg, R., 2006 Post Carbon Institute
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Access to land the greatest limiting factor
movement to de-commodify agriculture land, eliminate speculative valuation
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New agriculture and food systems education programs emerging
across Canada
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Applied research and extension lacking
Lots of questions need to be answered and myths dispelled
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Food systems seen to be at the heart of our sustainability challenge
Many activist organizations doing much work
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Call for a Canadian Food Security Strategy
What ideologies, strategies will dominate?
Imagine a Canadian food system in which Canadian family farmers capture significantly more of the $100 billion food market in Canada.
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Our big challenge going forward
Agriculture must regain credibility and social license
Traditional family farm sector must regain influence
Create an economy in which family based farming and communities can flourish
Be the foundation for and leaders of sustainable society
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National Farmers Union
perfectly positioned, poised to take a leadership role
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What’s it going to take?
(first, an unequivocal stand- can’t have your cake and eat it too)
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1. Embrace deep sustainability and organic production methods- it’s the high ground
2. Tell it like it is (challenges, vision, solutions) to the public forthrightly and relentlessly- they are listening and will support you
3. Challenge neo-liberal economics and laisse faire capitalism- there are other ways to organize and operate a healthy, robust economy
4. Demand an end to oligopolistic control of our food system- or accept likely outcomes
5. Champion greater social and economic equity for all- ability to secure basic necessities, good food a human right, not just for the sufficiently affluent
10 Actions
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6. Support diversity in farm types, sizes and marketing channels- confers adaptability and resiliency
7. Encourage, mentor the new generation of farmers- they bring lots of new skills, passion
8. Empower women agriculturists- support their perspective, intellect, and energy
9. Ally with diverse activist organizations- sustainable food system, Indigenous rights, environmental, social justice, etc.- they are kindred spirits and will support you
10. Demand and contribute to climate change mitigation- far less expensive than adaptation and far better outcome for you
10 Actions
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A 21st century food system vision
A global network of bio-regional food systems operating in concert and balance with appropriate
national and trans-national elements.
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Our food, our food system, our economy, and our children's, children's future
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“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” Albert Einstein