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May 25 12 tweets 5 min read
#Nammazhvar on Food Security - TedxIIMTrichy - A thread - 1/n

Simplicity and good sense of humour prevails in the talk of 21 mins of pure gold

"Ministers are more interested in redefinition of poverty line - instead of eliminating poverty" - he quips

2/n

1. Subsidies given to people are only reinforcing poverty - creating unemployment

2. Every year hundred thousand tonnes of food gets spoiled - for want of better storage

3. Food security = Food availability + accessibility + acceptability + nutritive value - 1996 UN conf.
3/n

4. 43% of the children below 5 yrs lack access to nutritive food - growth is retarded

5. Food security is in the soil - 2000 years back our forefathers said - Soil + water = food - It doesn't need university education
4/n

6. Agri-culture has become Agri-business - concludes a 1996 biodiversity workshop in Philippines

No care for soil, producers and consumers

7. 250,000 farmers committed suicide in the last 15 years
5/n

8. Govt is paying money on fertilizers, hybrid seeds, water, electricity - all for commercial crops not for food crops

9. Small farmers unable to get the right price for the crops - end up committing suicide
6/n

Poison is sold as medicine :-)

10. Anything ending with "cide" - kills something

pest - pesticide
rodent - rodenticide
human - genocide

If pesticide kills only the pests it can be called pesticide - if it kills you it has to be called biocide!
7/n

11. Italy - Slow food conference

Fast food is a misnomer - processed food - travels 2400 km before it reaches your plate - metal poison is added as preservatives

Travelling 2400 kms - fast and processed food contributes to global warming and climate change
8/n

12. Slow food

It should be fresh, tasty, locally produced and locally consumed

Agriculture is not an economic activity - it is a gastronomic activity - it should suit your intestines
9/n

13. Fertility of soil means living soil

Living soil means - millions of microorganisms and earth worms should live in the soil - only then nutrients are released by soil to plant

Soil needs - plant and animal residues
10/n

14. Without healthy soil, we are producing a generation of patients - Diabetes patients, kidney patients etc

15. Need for educated people to come to agriculture.
11/n

#Nammazhvar met @SadhguruJV - an excerpt of their talk

Sadhguru says - Soil is continuous ecosystem - doesn't care for national boundaries

- It is a generational responsibility - Every alive human being should care for mother earth

#SaveSoil - Let us make it happen!

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