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Ich nehme einfach die Schweiz als Beispiel, aber es funkti-oniert in ganz Westeuropa so. Wie organisiert man jetzt die Landwirtschaft im Verhältnis zu diesen urba-nen Gebilden? Mein Vorschlag und auch der von vielen Leuten, die das studiert haben, Ökologen und Agronomen, wäre ja der, dass man sagt: In Westeuropa braucht man zur Nahrungsversorgung von so einem bolo etwa 90 ha Land von der Art, wie wir es hier haben.
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I always begin here with this urban, western bolo. I never prescribe for other people how they should organize themselves. I simply take Switzerland as an example, but it works the same for all of western Europe. How do you organize agriculture in conjunction with these urban structures? My suggestion, and also that of many people who have studied ecology and agronomy, would be to say: in western Europe, for the food supplies of such a bolo, we'd need about 90 hectares of the type of land that we have here. If we take a mid-size city such as Zurich, then these 90 hectares can be found in a radius of about 30 km around the city, they would have room there. That is still available, if we don't build up and pave over everything in the near future. And then it would be possible, seen purely schematically, to assign each bolo a farm of 90 hectares. That is calculated quite generously, because in Switzerland the farms are an average size of only about 15 hectares, in Austria perhaps a bit larger. Although they are relatively large units, that doesn't mean that relatively large surfaces have to be farmed. These would be intrinsically quite diverse structures, where you could produce everything from potatoes to milk. That would achieve a rather sound ecological efficiency, because a small truck - or maybe even a wagon on a train - would only have to travel once a week between the rural area and the urban area. For the return trip, they could take compost. Then you could develop a system so that the people who live in the bolo could also work in the rural section. That would be a lot more efficient than today's supermarket supply system, because there we are dealing with a whole series of intermediary transports, in distribution centers, and then again in supermarkets, and then I still have to go to the supermarket. Here, every bolo would be a supermarket, with a diversified land section, large enough to farm economically. You can't continue today's agriculture because it only functions with a huge input of oil and chemicals and other things. Mixed biological farming is necessary, whereby one combines different plants in the same area so that they fertilize one another. Not these huge, monotone fields; that wouldn't function anymore. But this mixed agriculture requires a lot more human labor than today - which is actually quite nice - perhaps three times as much. But that isn't so much because in Switzerland, agriculture makes up roughly 3 percent of the work forc
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