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Yes.. permaculture.. For centuries we had small scale agriculture, combining different stuff whereas now we have large scale specializations. What we need to do is transform the profession of a 'farmer' who's a specialist to one who's multifunctional. A farmer producing fruit from trees should also have flocks of chickens on the ground..
Governments aren't likely to support this, afraid of losing the ''benefits'' of scale economics (''we gotta compete with the world and over produce!''), so they keep existing structures intact through subsidizing. This must be a grassroots thing.. anyone with a reasonable sized garden can grow some vegetables, have a fruit tree, and some chickens. Wildflowers too for insects..
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