Sustainable agriculture is based on the rejection of the industrial approach to food production.
The WHO definition of sustainable agriculture is "the management and conservation of natiral resources through the implementation of technological and institutional change to protect the environment and provide socio-economic benefits for present and future generations”.
For over half a century agricultural policy has been geared toward maximum production of agricultural land. Over the short term, these policies led to increased food production, particularly in the third world however the cost to both people and planet has been steep, creating a deficit in all facets of the environment.
Global Food Crisis
In 2019, the United Nations updated their Sustainable Development Goals, which serve as a blueprint for all nations to achieve a better and more sustainable future. The 17 goals are interconnected and address global challenges related to poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, peace, and justice. The implementation of Crop Circle Farms ® would address 14 of them.
With more than 700 million struggling to fulfill their most basic needs such as access to clean water and food, a significant deployment of Crop Circles would make a meaningful difference to millions living in extreme poverty.
A profound change of the global food and agriculture system is needed if we are to nourish the 821 million people who are hungry today and the additional 2 billion people expected to be undernourished by 2050. We believe Crop Circle Farms are crucial to increasing the capacity for agricultural productivity and sustainable food production systems are necessary to help alleviate the perils of hunger.
Ensuring healthy lives and promoting the well-being at all ages is essential to sustainable development. Simply growing fresh produce with Crop Circle Farms would provide good health and a sense of well-being to reduce premature deaths due to communicable diseases.
Obtaining a quality education is the foundation to creating sustainable development. In addition to improving quality of life, teaching people how to use Crop Circle Farms would equip locals with the tools required to develop innovative solutions to the world’s greatest problems like proper nutrition and hunger.
Providing Crop Circle Farms would give women and girls equal access to food production, decent work, and representation in political and economic decision-making processes on a local level, fuel sustainable economies and benefit societies and humanity at large.
Clean, accessible water for all is an essential part of the world we want to live in however, water scarcity, poor water quality and inadequate sanitation negatively impact food security, livelihood choices and educational opportunities for poor families across the world. More than 2 billion people are living with the risk of reduced access to freshwater resources and by 2050, at least one in four people is likely to live in a country affected by chronic or recurring shortages of fresh water. Present day agriculture uses 70% of the world’s fresh water and wastes half of it. Crop Circle Farms use 90% less water compared to present day agriculture.
Roughly half the world’s population still lives on the equivalent of about US$2 a day with global unemployment rates of 5.7% and having a job doesn’t guarantee the ability to escape from poverty in many places. This slow and uneven progress requires us to rethink and retool our economic and social policies aimed at eradicating poverty. The introduction of Crop Circle Farming would decrease unemployment rates significantly and provide meaningful work no matter the working person's age or gender.
Investments in infrastructure – transport, irrigation, energy and information and communication technology – are crucial to achieving sustainable development and empowering communities in many countries. Crop Circle Farms require little water to grow food and as such are not dependent on the industrialized irrigation developed by developed countries. Small improvements in commercial irrigation would go a long way and halt the over pumping and rapid depletion of irreplaceable aquifers.
More than half the world’s population is predicted to live in cities by the middle of the century dependent on imported food. Growth in food production will depend largely on finding ways to increase the productivity of urban land spaces. Crop Circle Farms can reduce the carbon footprint of our food, conserve water and help create sustainable city and community food systems.
Responsible consumption and production are about promoting resource and energy efficiency, responsible infrastructure, and providing access to basic services, green and decent jobs, and a better quality of life for all. Since responsible consumption and production aims at “doing more and better with less,” using Crop Circle Farms can reduce resource use, environmental degradation, and pollution, while increasing quality of life. There also needs to be significant focus on developing a localized supply chain, involving everyone from producer to final consumer. Crop Circles Farms can be deployed as a “point-of-use” system that grows food right where people live eliminating the need for “third-party” transportation.
Climate change is now affecting every country on every continent. It is disrupting national economies and affecting lives, costing people, communities, and countries dearly today and even more tomorrow. Weather patterns are changing, sea levels are rising, weather events are becoming more extreme and greenhouse gas emissions are now at their highest levels in history. Without action, the world’s average surface temperature is likely to surpass 3 degrees centigrade this century. The poorest and most vulnerable people are being affected the most. The need to rapidly develop and adopt climate adaptive food growing systems is essential if we are going to survive what is predicted to come. Crop Circle Farms can be rapidly deployed around the planet to grow food for a billion people or more. Climate adaptive and easy to use, Crop Circle Farms can be installed anywhere people consume food eliminating dependence on a fossil fueled delivery system.
The world’s fish stocks are “on the verge of collapse,” according to a special report from IRIN, International Union for Conservation of Nature. There are plenty of reasons for this; overfishing, destruction of spawning grounds, increasing water temperatures, disease, and algae bloom. An estimated 70 percent of fish populations are fully used, overused, or in crisis because of overfishing and warmer waters. If the world continues at its current rate of fishing, we will be out of fish by 2050 according to the IRIN. Crop Circle Fisheries grow large sustainable fish populations by shaping the natural environment into wide earth trench closed loop spirals that increase the earth's magnetic field to benefit the fish. The increased field magnetizes the water increasing oxygen absorption on a molecular level, which eliminates the need for a supplement supply generated by a fossil fueled aerator. High oxygen levels keep disease and algae in check and provide an environment where a natural food supply can develop for the fish to feed on. Instead of a factory fish farm growing one species of fish, many fish species can be co-mingled to create a healthier ecosystem and a diversified for-profit enterprise.
Forests cover 30.7 per cent of the Earth’s surface and, in addition to providing food security and shelter; they are key to combating climate change, protecting biodiversity and the homes of the indigenous population. By protecting forests, we will also be able to strengthen natural resource management and increase land productivity. A rowed tree plantation is the traditional method for growing trees at scale; used primarily for reforestation and commercial timber projects however, it can take several decades of growth before there is significant benefit. Using Crop Circles ® to grow trees reduces the time it takes for a forest to mature, which will benefit climate, wildlife, and the economy much faster than traditional tree farming.
Crop Circle Farm agriculture uses significantly less resources that meet the development goals (SDG’s) set out by the UN. Crop Circle Farms adapt to even the most challenging environments with minimal impact. This small space, high-density, quick to production agricultural system uses 90% less water, 95% less fertilizer quadrupling yield four-fold compared to a farm row acre.
