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Fran's avatar

This is pretty interesting, I've never stopped to think about how countries in the middle of the desert can be self sufficient in terms of agriculture. Can't wait to read your next post.

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Melanie Newfield's avatar

Yikes. This brings home the point that is made again and again. There's always a technological solution. However, in almost all cases, the technological solution is incredibly energy-intensive, and usually goes back to fossil fuels. You'd think that such an environment would be able to use solar, though. Surely if there was anywhere in the world capable of doing that, it would be these countries. And if they did, the systems they came up with may be very efficient with other resources, like fertiliser, not pouring it onto the fields and letting it end up in the atmosphere and waterways like New Zealand does. I'll try to be optimistic.

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