Sustainable Land use and Organic Farming

There are 1.9 hectares of productive land available for each of the 6 billion people living in the world at present. In our industrialised Western society it is sometimes hard to realise quite how fundamental land is to our life on earth. The top six inches of land, which is soil, has to provide us with all our food. The land has to absorb much of our waste and is the catchment and filter for our water. It has to provide us with recreation and is essential to the supply of minerals and materials for our agriculture and industry. This land and its resources are finite, as is its capacity to absorb waste.