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Fixing Food

机译:修理食物

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If Canada's population were spread evenly across our country, each Canadian would enjoy almost two football fields of farmland. This number is second only to Australia, and is five times more than France, 13 times more than Haiti and 26 times more than Costa Rica. An abundance of farmland means we can produce much more food than we need, allowing a robust export market for agricultural products. As our "basic industry" (a quote often used by former CBC Toronto farm host George Atkins), Canada's agriculture and food sector is responsible for eight per cent of national GDP and employs about 12 per cent of Canadians. Exports are responsible for over half of our agricultural economy. The problem with being an export powerhouse, however, is the tendency to focus on food production and ignore any negative side effects. For example, deregulation and other changes put in place to encourage higher agricultural production have resulted in massive consolidation within the grain and livestock sectors, reducing economic opportunities for many rural Canadians. The shift to industrial agriculture has also contributed to dramatic declines in biodiversity; persistent water quality problems, such as algal blooms in Lakes Erie and Winnipeg; declining effectiveness of agrochemical biocides; and increases in crop and animal diseases.
机译:如果加拿大的人口平均分布在我们全国各地,那么每个加拿大人将享受几乎两个农田的足球场。这个数字仅次于澳大利亚,是法国的五倍,海地的十三倍和哥斯达黎加的二十六倍。大量的耕地意味着我们可以生产比所需更多的粮食,从而可以实现强大的农产品出口市场。作为我们的“基础产业”(前加拿大广播公司前多伦多农场主乔治·阿特金斯经常引用的一句话),加拿大的农业和食品部门占国民生产总值的8%,雇用了约12%的加拿大人。出口占我们农业经济的一半以上。但是,成为出口大国的问题是倾向于专注于粮食生产而忽略了任何负面影响。例如,为了鼓励更高的农业生产而采取的放松管制和其他改革措施导致谷物和畜牧业内部的大规模整合,从而减少了许多加拿大农村人口的经济机会。向工业农业的转变也造成了生物多样性的急剧下降;持续的水质问题,例如伊利湖和温尼伯的藻华;农业化学杀虫剂的有效性下降;以及农作物和动物疾病的增加。

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  • 来源
    《Alternatives Journal》 |2015年第1期|26-28|共3页
  • 作者

    MARTIN ENTZ;

  • 作者单位

    University of Manitoba;

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