The GreenplanetFM Podcast with Tim Lynch

Brendan is a courageous advocate for growing of healthy food and the World Rural Forum have asked him to participate in what is a world civil societies initiative to the UN's International Year of Family Farming.70% OF THE WORLD FOOD PRODUCTION IS PROVIDED BY FAMILY FARMERSOf that 70%50% comes from arable, cropping and gardening12.5% come from hunting and gathering7.5% is produced by small urban farmersThe other 30% of food production comes from highly mechanised Western farming.25% OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION IS COMPOSED OF WOMEN FARMERS, which comes to about 1,600 million women. These women are usually running the household, bringing up the children, cooking, cleaning and taking care of the sick and or aged parents as well. (Spare a caring thought for them).So the International Year of Family Farming is not about the family farm or farming, and it is more than just producing food and products. It covers, contracts, teachers, safety, health workers, education, land use, including farm labour, fisheries, forest