Self-sufficiency

You can't feed people with community gardens, at best they're a supplement of large scale agriculture and something nice for the neighbourhood that brings people together. Grow up.

why is there a link to that gross /chemo/ page here.ew

I mean… you can if they're big enough. If we scale back urbanization so that cities aren't so dense and we have a more uniform distribution of farmland to residential area, we could have local, community-managed farms. That would also be good for the environment, since it would encourage people to grow locally native crops. A major weakness of capitalism's industrial farming is the over-reliance on certain staple crops like corn and soy. If you take economy of scale to the logical conclusion you get wide-spread mono-crops and the wrong conditions can then threaten your entire agriculture industry. The more distributed a system like that is, the more resilient it is to threats. A reasonable solution would find some balance between those extremes to offset the drawbacks both versions have, inefficiency vs security.

That and the more you distribute and diversify, the more diverse your food options. Food isn't simply a survival concern. Quality, variety (especially for nutrition), and simple differences of taste and preference are worth pursing as well.

oh shit dude what are you doing
more uniform distribution of farmland to residential area isn't what we need at all, you want economy of scale gains for both

suburbs, small scale agriculture, artisanal production etc. are a blight, more dense urbanism and improved industrial agriculture would actually leave space for wilderness again

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You want to make people commute even longer?

you really don't
the nature of scaled agriculture is not sustainable what you want is pretty much what op said and more uniform distribution f farmland to res would help a lot with that

if res/urban was crossed with agriculture you would increase air quality, reduce pollution, reduce traffic, lower transportation costs, reduce oil consumption. improve health, and really its like you ignored everything he said about monocropping and native species it seems like you don't really know what your talking about.

theres also a huge amount of water wasted growing specific varieties that have good shelf life and transportability local farms would increase diversity of produce available and most of these varieties are geared around a reductionist part in a machine fertilizing practices that don't take the system into account. monocropping with bare soil is seriously dumb as shit.

there are better species that are more nutritious with lower shelf lifes that require less water and self fertilize for example

You don't have to make urban areas any more dense per se to get better economy of scale. I don't think you really get what these words mean, tbhfam. You could have bigger cities that are more spread out than a typical urban center.

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I can tell you're americans. Please take a look at cities like Copenhagen, Amsterdam or Vienna. They're not ideal by any means but a lot closer to what a city should be than the shitty sprawling car-centric mega-suburbs you call cities. gets it. Suburbia and cities that are built in the same fashion should be razed to the ground and replaced with appartment blocks, lots of public transportation (and no not just fucking buses which pass for public transportation in the US, we're talking rail here)

I'm still not sure about that. Couldn't you argue that if this style of farming were more efficient that it would've already displaced large scale industrial agriculture?

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Back when I lived in Moscow, my primary school was 20min away by foot, my secondary school was around 30-40 (if i was dragging my feet) and pretty much everything from stores to markets was in range. The closest "supermarket" to my building was 5min away, but even then I was too lazy to actually run down the stairs (the elevator was often faulty and slow) and go for bread.

The question is irrelevant to whether it's strategically sound, though.
Do you think any other revolution won't also have to react to capital strike? Might as well get a head start so when porky cuts off access to global trade the local economy is already prepared.

the amount of subsidies in industrial agriculture makes it essentially impossible. Industrial farming creates more food but requires more non-renewable inputs. It would require a planned transition to ensure people remain fed during the change. Some people say that a modern population is impossible to sustain without industrial farming and with our current layout of supply chains that is true.

I don't know how well the analogy works but its monocropping with bare soil is like raising a kid in a sterile environment. The plants and ecological network don't develop an immune system because they are culled back to sterility every year and all natural sources of nutrition removed disrupting the cycle. Evolution is put on pause to produce food that's inflated with water and sugar to fetch a higher price at the market at the cost of nutrition and health of not just the individual consuming it but the environment itself. You can watch the Mississippi basin bleed into the gulf of mexico from satellite as we wash away literally feet of top soil that took thousands of years to accumulate.

Building local farms to feed people directly is a strong form of dual power that takes material reproduction of human life from capitalists and puts it back in the hands of the community. If you give people food and shelter they are in a better position to learn how to be politically active.

news.cornell.edu/stories/1997/08/us-could-feed-800-million-people-grain-livestock-eat

I'm not even a vegan, but the fact is most of our agriculture goes towards feeding livestock, where are pretty inefficient at converting the feed to meat. Sustainability on a local level would be somewhat reasonable from a pure staples standpoint; somethings of course have to be grown far away like fruits, but hopefully you can get 75% of your food from within 50 miles and 90% from within 500. Eating meat, especially beef, would have to be somewhat more expensive to account for this, and plans would account for the wastefulness of resources better. The main problem is there would have to be a lot more farmers than there are now, but I don't think that's a bad thing as spending half your week farming and half in a factory or whatever is a pretty good synthesis to keep from being burnt out.

I think this could be solved really easily by having vegetables be pick-your-own. A lot of cities have parks that are in disrepair with large irrigated fields that already criss cross residential areas. Most agricultural labor is during harvest and monocrop could be solved with robots but perennial polyculture in alleyways, sidewalks and local parks that is and self picked and integrated into local water reclamation and earthworks and drain/sewege modification to decrease runoff would replenish groundwater rather than import. Asphalt and concrete actually creates deadzones around cities where runoff is too fast to maintain proper soil so you would want to break up streets and replace them with two lane public transportation and gardens.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organopónicos

Aquire public grants to purchase parks for community owned co-ops to own the libs.