The World needs LESS Food. | Brent Preston | TEDxCollingwood - YouTube

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The big corporations that dominate our agricultural system say that farming on an industrial scale is necessary to prevent mass starvation. But is chemical-intensive, mono-crop agriculture really the best way to feed the world? Organic farmer Brent Preston weaves personal experience and compelling analysis of our global food system to argue that overproduction of food is at the root of many of the world’s biggest problems. Brent Preston worked as a human rights investigator, aid worker, election observer and journalist on four continents before finding his true calling as a farmer. In 2003…

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