{"id":6809,"date":"2011-04-09T02:58:35","date_gmt":"2011-04-09T02:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=6809"},"modified":"2011-04-09T02:58:35","modified_gmt":"2011-04-09T02:58:35","slug":"food-glorious-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/food-glorious-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Food glorious food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/outsidethefield.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/outsidethefield.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"261\" height=\"320\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6810\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/outsidethefield.jpg 261w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/outsidethefield-245x300.jpg 245w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Modern life presents numerous paradoxes. Perhaps the first is the widespread <a href=\"http:\/\/roaringworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/tuna-tsukiji-fish-market.jpg\">trade in food produce<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.checknsave.com\/au\/i\/supermarket.jpg\">convenience of supermarket shopping<\/a>, that has somehow alienated society from the concept that all food is <a href=\"http:\/\/static.howstuffworks.com\/gif\/food-crops-1.jpg\">land<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/images.brisbanetimes.com.au\/2010\/12\/02\/2076432\/03-seafood420-420x0.jpg\">se<\/a>a based. And this means &#8211; land area &amp; sea area &#8211; must be used, managed and preserved for this purpose, generally in some direct relationship with the population that must be feed.<\/p>\n<p>Can all nations feed their own populations within the bounds of their own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sustainer.org\/dhm_archive\/index.php?display_article=vn168faoed\">land<\/a> and sea resources?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some countries just do not have the land to feed their year-2000 populations even at high yields. They include Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Algeria, Somalia, Lesotho, Haiti, and much of the Middle East. Some of these countries have resources they can trade for food; others do not. After the year 2000, if populations go on growing, other countries come onto the critical list, including Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, India, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>How is sustainable agriculture and aquaculture to be understood?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modern life presents numerous paradoxes. Perhaps the first is the widespread trade in food produce and the convenience of supermarket shopping, that has somehow alienated society from the concept that all food is land or sea based. And this means &#8211; land area &amp; sea area &#8211; must be used, managed and preserved for this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11,16,18,37,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}