Tackling World Food Crisis: Agricultural Reform | 55 comments (55 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Tackling World Food Crisis: Agricultural Refor (none / 1)

Got an idea for a specific focus? Or just a boilerplate statement of global problems and everyone have a go at hashing out solutions?

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sun Apr 20th, 2008 at 03:29:36 PM EST
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Re: Tackling World Food Crisis: Agricultural Refor (4.00 / 2)

Right now compiling all the diaries, and the ensuing discussions, in one place would be a good start.

Then abstract the various Topics: GM, water depletion, transference of food crops to bio-fuel production, rural economic diversity, overpopulation, Climate Change, & etc with their associated diaries/comments -- something like I did here. (which I then let lapse, my bad.)

Then construct a flow-chart or Fuzzy-Cognitive Map or some other Modeling tool to provide a Top-Down and Bottom-Up Index.

Goal: provide a quality Information Source for position papers and decision-makers.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Sun Apr 20th, 2008 at 03:51:32 PM EST
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Re: Tackling World Food Crisis: Agricultural Refor (4.00 / 3)

OK, one, I'll pool the diaries together into the Occasional Series box.

Next, I think a debate might be the occasion for identifying the issues & topics, as well as sketching the outlines of solutions (debatable of course).

Then attempt the type of tool you suggest, for which we don't have a slot. The ETwiki was supposed to do this kind of thing, but it's spam-botted to hell.

The fuzzy-cognition tool I may leave to others... ;)

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sun Apr 20th, 2008 at 04:11:13 PM EST
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Re: Tackling World Food Crisis: Agricultural Refor (4.00 / 2)

This week is going to be too busy for me to devote to non-money making activities. I'll do what I can, when I can.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Sun Apr 20th, 2008 at 04:18:27 PM EST
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Re: Tackling World Food Crisis: Agricultural Refor (4.00 / 2)

I'll start with the first part, then we'll see about the second?

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sun Apr 20th, 2008 at 04:25:05 PM EST
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Re: Tackling World Food Crisis: Agricultural Refor (none / 1)

If you can put up the Debate Box and whatever you can find I'll plug away filling the gaps.

As to the second, I know how to do that. The challenge will be getting enough time to do it. But that's OK. My feeling is it's better to start with high-quality but limited rather than lots and lots of nuthin.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Sun Apr 20th, 2008 at 05:03:56 PM EST
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Tackling World Food Crisis: Agricultural Reform | 55 comments (55 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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