Gospel and Agriculture: Examples of Sustainable Agriculture

Second post in my series on Gospel and Agriculture - perhaps it might be beneficial to get rolling with some real-world footage to illustrate something of what we're talking about here, before digging into the Biblical narrative.

First up, Geoff Lawton's funky video on their initial project in Jordan. This is a Permaculture project that involved turning around a 10-acre piece of salted desert into something beautiful and productive - the kind of thing that Christians could most certainly skill up in. If the word "Permaculture" doesn't mean much to you, have a watch of this:

Secondly, a quick video on tea growing in Kenya. This relates to the whole issue of the use of land throughout the world - lots and lots of land is given over to growing tea, coffee, tobacco and chocolate for consumption by the West. Tea is apparently only a quarter of the price it was 30 years ago - and there's not enough food grown in the world to feed everybody:

And finally an interview with Vandana Shiva, a fascinating Hindu thinker, where she gives an introduction to issues of seed patents: