Douglas Tompkins, the U.S.A. born conservationist and philanthropist, died last December 8th in a kayaking accident at Coyhaique, Chilean Patagonia, at a young age of 72.
He is well known as the founder of The North Face and Esprit clothing companies, and having sold his shares in them, devoted most of his money to conservationism. He and his wife purchased almost 2 million acres of land in Argentina and Chile to that effect (equivalent to 40% of the area of Wales or Israel, almost 30% of Belgium or almost as large as Delaware and Rhode Island together).
The vast array of his activities can be explored in the website of Tompkins Conservation. I'm particularly interested in his take on agriculture and the experiences he was developing in different ranches in Argentina.
To start with, Laguna Blanca, in Entre Rios province, located at 30°S (a similar latitude as Houston or New Orleans, for reference). In this long video, he explains the project:
(two factual mistakes in it: there's no River San Feliciano, but a stream called Feliciano; and the previous owners surely left isolated trees to have bees and shadow when the lands were devoted to grains and cattle, alternatively)
(The Spanish version -also narrated by him in pretty fluent Spanish- is more complete -seven minutes longer-)
The matter is, besides the commercial model of the ranch, which may be or not a success, can mankind feed itself from solely using that model or integrating it with other more traditional approaches but in a large scale? I want the answer to be yes, but I'm afraid it's a no. What do you know about it? What you can share?
He is well known as the founder of The North Face and Esprit clothing companies, and having sold his shares in them, devoted most of his money to conservationism. He and his wife purchased almost 2 million acres of land in Argentina and Chile to that effect (equivalent to 40% of the area of Wales or Israel, almost 30% of Belgium or almost as large as Delaware and Rhode Island together).
The vast array of his activities can be explored in the website of Tompkins Conservation. I'm particularly interested in his take on agriculture and the experiences he was developing in different ranches in Argentina.
To start with, Laguna Blanca, in Entre Rios province, located at 30°S (a similar latitude as Houston or New Orleans, for reference). In this long video, he explains the project:
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(two factual mistakes in it: there's no River San Feliciano, but a stream called Feliciano; and the previous owners surely left isolated trees to have bees and shadow when the lands were devoted to grains and cattle, alternatively)
(The Spanish version -also narrated by him in pretty fluent Spanish- is more complete -seven minutes longer-)
The matter is, besides the commercial model of the ranch, which may be or not a success, can mankind feed itself from solely using that model or integrating it with other more traditional approaches but in a large scale? I want the answer to be yes, but I'm afraid it's a no. What do you know about it? What you can share?
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