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I talk about industrial agriculture a lot. This is why. Industrial agriculture pollutes environments, harms people, fails to provide healthy food equitably, and rewards harmful practices. With ecosia.
For a long time, big agribusiness has dominated our food system, focusing on economic growth and corporate gains while ignoring its long-term environmental impact.
Big agribusiness was introduced during the 1950s and 1960s in the United States, seeking to expand food production from small-scale local farmers to large corporate businesses. Since then, this form of corporate agriculture has contributed to displacing Black and Indigenous farmers and destroying natural ecosystems.
The term Agribusiness was coined in 1957 by scholars John H. Davis and Ray A Goldberg — they argued that privatizing the agriculture industry would create positive change, as opposed to allowing the government to control the sector. Agribusiness is defined as the production of economic growth through the development of farm crops, including the production, processing, distribution, and transportation of food (aka, food as a business).
While small-scale farmers provide 70% of the world’s food, food production in the US is dominated by agribusiness.
Modern commercialized forms of agriculture heavily rely on monocultures, the cultivation of a single crop on a large tract of land. Monocultures initially increase yields but subsequently rely more on pesticides and insecticides, and have higher rates of soil degradation. Unfortunately, the same pesticides and insecticides that were needed to sustain monocultures, end up destroying beneficial insects and bacteria that have promoted plant productivity and leads plants to be more vulnerable to catching diseases and experience sudden crop failures.
On top of that, monocultures require high-intensity water usage for irrigation. Agribusinesses use extractive methods such as collecting water from nearby lakes, rivers, and reservoirs, thereby harming these ecosystems. With the rapid development of agribusinesses across the globe, forests are also being cleared to make room for large monocultures, which alter ecosystems by reducing species diversity.
Our food production system is designed for rapid growth and corporate profits while ignoring environmental impact, thus creating not only an injustice but also a long-term problem for the planet. This practice and relationship with the land is not something that can be sustained.
Value addition . 1,3. Mugisha Bernard a local farmer based in lweza winnowing maize as this helps to remove the unwanted particles(impurities) after which he takes the maize to the maize milling machine located in Kajjansi area a near by trading centre. The dedication and time we invest in putting things right.
2. A portrait of Mugisha Bernard.
The Farming sector continues to play a major key role in boosting the country’s economy with majority of Ugandans in different parts of the country engaging in the practice.
