tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235419263414453422.post3939443645962114851..comments2024-02-23T01:30:06.101-08:00Comments on Early Warning: Agricultural Area in Developed CountriesStuart Stanifordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07182839827506265860noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235419263414453422.post-73790942073458165592012-10-01T21:44:29.501-07:002012-10-01T21:44:29.501-07:00Luke..
Thankfully, there is more to land than jus...Luke..<br /><br />Thankfully, there is more to land than just agriculture, residential or commercial use. Japan has the highest % of forested land of any country in the OECD. For details, refer to Collapse by Jarod Diamond.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235419263414453422.post-32640876453807564092012-10-01T10:20:41.338-07:002012-10-01T10:20:41.338-07:00I'd like to see a more expanded graph to inclu...I'd like to see a more expanded graph to include population density and land available for agriculture. Just to give an example, the bottom two countries - Japan and Sweden - represent the most densely populated and the highest latitude countries in the list. <br /><br />In Japan's case, there is higher competition for residential and commercial use of land, and in Sweden's case because of the high latitude the growing season may be much shorter than all other countries due to the amount of available direct sunlight (especially in the Arctic Circle).Luke The Debtorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07527422933669490001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235419263414453422.post-48303822382195544822012-10-01T08:31:19.584-07:002012-10-01T08:31:19.584-07:00No, they're not making any more of it.
Stuart...No, they're not making any more of it.<br /><br />Stuart, I've been following your comments about the 4% rise in farms, and revisited the discussion from a couple of years back with Sharon Astyk and have been giving it a little thought. I certainly don't think there's enough there to undermine the basic thrust of your original argument. The number of farms has a lot to do with how farms are defined. I probably by now should have gotten around to having my little 5-acre patch cut out from the larger farm here, but it hasn't been worth the bother. That is the sort of thing that would have "created" another farm (and farmer.)<br /><br />At our Farmers Market, the overwhelming majority of the farmers are older than me (I'm 59.) One, an older black woman, has been farming in the hills with her husband for many years, but most of the growers here are retirees, hobby farming for a little second income on 2-5 acre parcels that they have been living on for just a few years. I have no idea how many of these rural properties were classified as farms before, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't all of them.<br /><br />Like many trends, I think the aging of the baby boom has more to do with it than anything else.HalFiorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18432415155069446325noreply@blogger.com