Benefits of food forests vs conventional farming

Conventional farming disrupts soil structure, causing loss of topsoil, kills essential soil life, mismanages and pollutes water, reduces biodiversity, including pollinators and harms air quality, pollutes land and people. 

A number of these problems are robbing us of future food security. 

The quantities of fossil fuel used to operate machinery, transport food and make pesticides has a hugely damaging impact on climate change.

Pesticides are also a key driver of climate change. One such greenhouse gas, nitrous oxide, has a global warming potential 300 times larger than carbon dioxide.

Food forests however are amazing food growing systems. 

They can be and indeed should be part of a sustainable food growing future. Including them within all our landscapes, urban and agricultural, will give us far greater future food resilience.