cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/218266

  • The document discusses the negative impacts of externalities such as global warming, land degradation, and biodiversity loss, which are not currently accounted for in accounting procedures.
  • It emphasizes the need to understand and implement ecological principles in land use and farming practices for sustainability.
  • The author calls for Australia to learn from history and not repeat past examples of human land occupation.
  • The document highlights the importance of understanding and respecting the ecology of the land, as well as the limitations of the land itself.
  • It suggests that farming practices should be based on natural and free resourcing of land and water systems, rather than relying on purchasing ongoing inputs, in order to benefit the whole biological community and repair failing ecology.

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https://landsmanship.com/

https://landsmanship.com/publications-for-download/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_Sequence_Farming

  • Treevan 🇦🇺@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I came across the linked pdf when I was looking up Natural Sequence Farming by Peter Andrews which was/is an alternative agricultural method invented in Australia in the 70’s.

    Peter Andrews has a couple of well-known videos by “Australian Story”, a documentary show on the ABC (a government subsidised broadcaster). It’s probably worth a post of its own: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4OBcRHX1Bc

    All the links go to one guy cause I threw them in at the end for education purposes and to expand the reading for anyone that wanted to follow up, the linked pdf was written by both of them. I assume the term was coined by them, I’ve never heard it used in conversation. Stewardship is of the same ilk, except that would be a far more popular and well-known word.