Part III Banana: Product of Costa Rica

Sustainable farming is an idea that farmers use to protect the environment, and also keeping the ground they are farming healthy. Should the world go to sustainable farming or should the world just try to grow the product as much as possible and not care about the environment, animal welfare, the human communities, or public health? The world should start caring about the environment they live in. If not the posterity of the world will not be living in a healthy world.  

In “Where Am I Eating” written by Kelsey Timmerman on page 149 he states “Luis showed me short and tall plants, big and small, and bland and sweet bananas. We walked around and under 80 different varieties of bananas on EARTH’s organic banana farm. The farm is a living, growing bank of biodiversity. It’s something the scientists like Luis believe we need more of – and need to fiercely protect.” He states that Luis believes we need more biodiversity farms. Which is correct, they organically grow there different bananas. With them growing more than one type they more than likely don’t grow them in the same exact spot every single season. Which is better for the land and the human communities around the farm. If you grow the same food object in the same spot every season eventually the soil in that area will not grow the food anymore because it will not have the right minerals to do so.

“By planting highly valued tropical plants, Cid and Paoloa showed farmers that they could earn as much from 1,000 square meters of land as they could from 100,000 square meters” (Timmerman 146). Cid and Paoloa could very well be correct this is something you have to be very educated about to learn how to make the same amount of money off of 1,000 square meters of land than 100,000 square meters of land. That is 10 times as less land than 100,000 square meters. If the whole world could do this we could keep the demand and produce at the same amount. Also, the world wouldn’t have to farm as much land as they are now. That would mean we would have more land to urbanize and then less rural areas in the world.

The world is something different today as it was 10 years ago, and it will be different in 10 years from now. New technology will be invented, and old farming practices will be eliminated. Although one thing will never change and that is farming will always have some part in the life of the world. Sustainable Farming is the way to go though, because urbanization is become more and more popular. Which means that if the urban population takes over the rural areas to make them into popular cities, we will have less land to farm. This is where sustainable farming will come into a huge role. Farming in less land but making the same amount of money off of it. Sustainable farming is going to become the best decision to very country.