The second in a series of four talks recorded at the Soil Association annual conference in January 2007 looking at the impact of peak oil on food security.
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Much of todays agriculture relies on fossil fuel intensive inputs such as nitrous fertilisers, herbicides and pesticides as well as the transportation of food huge distances around the globe. The logic and stability of this way of producing our food is seriously brought into question by the likelihood of rising oil prices and the urgent need to cut our emissions of greenhouse gases. A relocalisation of food production that uses more traditional methods of small-scale, mixed farming is one possible response to the challenges that we now face. This talk was given at the Soil Association annual conference in January 2007. For further info see: http://www.soilassociation.org/oneplanetagriculture