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Understanding forest debt distribution among landholders is key for developing business models using the Forest Code to drive investment. Properties smaller than about 100 hectares (250 acres) are granted more leeway: most are subject to 50% set-asides and this threshold is rarely enforced. Mid-size holdings (500-1,500 hectares, or about 1,240 to 3,700 acres) must maintain 80% cover, but enjoy flexibility from regional zoning. Larger properties face the strictest enforcement, and a large cohort has cleared more than 70% of original forest.

Most medium and large-scale farms oppose the current regulations. If they could profitably restore their legal reserve by growing tree crops with global markets, however, their political position might shift from opposing to supporting the Forest Code. Small-scale family farmers are exempt from legal reserve caps, but are unlikely to proactively support current regulations unless they see clear benefits improving their livelihoods.

That bolded part might have something to do with this: Small-scale rainforest clearing drives majority of carbon loss, study finds

small-scale reforestation might help

Rice, maize

from Factors of Soil Formation by Hans Jenny:

Ditch the grass. Live vegan and grow your own veganic permaculture food forest using syntropic agriculture methods.

Friendly reminder to anyone reading that forests can deliver all of these benefits and food at the same time.

Yeah, the “good” was not referring to that aspect. That is a tragedy. This industry seems intent on taking out all life on Earth one way or another.

Good.

I’d be curious to know your strategy (if you have one) for moving toward food self-sufficiency. It seems as though your current situation is not serving you, and I wish you success in finding something that does.

As long as no sentient beings were used without their consent (e.g. to extract genetic material), then I see no ethical issue from a vegan point of view. I do have to question though, on a finite planet with an ever-worsening ecological catastrophe, whether developing such products is an irresponsible use of time and energy and material resources.

I guess only the people at the London Times know.

I can’t really disagree with you. It is possible, especially with community support. Rather than saying that not everyone can grow all of their own food, I should say that for the disabled poor living in urban environments in very cold or dry areas of the world, growing 100% of their own food would be much more difficult and/or require more innovative methods. Thank you for not backing down on this. We should never give up. Do you grow all of your own food now, or are you still in the process?

“ It’s difficult to accept, and not everyone is in a position to grow all of their own food, but if we can,” I totally disagree, seeds from food, even cheapest, can be grown to plants for food. Do not even need adults to learn & do this, super easily, the children can do it.

When I say that not everyone is in a position to grow all of their own food, I mean that some people may be trapped by poverty or disability in an urban environment in an inhospitable (desert/tundra) climate where they have limited space for growing food and the growing season is too short to have year-round production. For non-impoverished able-bodied people, yes, growing and foraging all of one’s own food is perfectly feasible.

I was not focused on bring-up awesome alternatives like this, more awareness, too as many people as possible. I did not think there were so many people that already knew this, like it seems you do. I hope everyone gets how bad this is for efforts to save our Living Earth & All Living Beings on it! Thank you!

I’m glad that you appreciate what I wrote and what those projects are doing. :)

Of course growing your own food or knowing the grower is the only way to ensure that something is vegan. Corporate- and carnist-controlled agricultural operations often use animals as fertiliser and eradicate wild animals not just on the farm itself but in the surrounding area as well as a pre-emptive measure. Everyone has a right to protect their food supply, but what you’re describing here seems like the active pre-emptive killing rather than a response to the non-humans’ actions.

It’s difficult to accept, and not everyone is in a position to grow all of their own food, but if we can, then of course growing our own food forests using veganic methods is the most peaceful and practical option. Amazon Restore and Pacha Libre are promoting this, and there are probably other committed ethical vegan food forest projects in the world of which I’m not aware. Community and local food production in harmony with the forest and native animals… I imagine that such is the solarpunk way.

And let’s not forget the massive amount of deforestation for growing the feed crops that they use. It’s an ecological catastrophe at every level.

Use the best plant for the job. Usually that is a native plant, but not always, especially when growing food. “Some day, people will forget that durians came from Asia.”

syntropic agriculture

If you want to avoid supporting industrial agriculture’s land-grabbing violence and ecological destruction without sacrificing the nutritional and gustatory marvels of fruits such as these, then growing your own veganic permaculture food forest is the ideal solution.

“Dumbphones” are not inherently superior from a privacy perspective if they connect to cell towers. Standard calls and SMS are wide open to eavesdropping.

The reclaiming of Darién national park should help protect one of the region’s largest carbon sinks and the Indigenous groups and many animal species that live there. It also comes as tropical forests across Central America are collapsing.

“Nicaragua is gone. Mexico, Guatemala – everything is going now. If you look from Google Earth we are down to these little green patches. It’s the last 10% of what was there 100 years ago. So if we don’t get it right real soon …” Morgan says, trailing off, preferring not to elaborate on the implications of losing the greatest intact rainforest north of the Amazon.

Chilling. Truly a “guys, I think we’re fucked” thought.

Its thorny protective canopy supports biodiversity and helps alleviate flooding risks from summer thunder-showers through effective water uptake.

Diverse trees also provide benefits to the garden because different species have different root architecture, which improves the health and structure of the soil.

layered canopies, ranging from ground covers to herbaceous perennials, shrubs and trees of various sizes, which has the benefit of maximising species diversity in limited spaces, and providing protective benefits against climate extremes (hot and cold) offered by this approach.

more benefits of planting native forest trees

For the automotive industry, I think that they mean Interior parts that aren’t exposed to the weather.