Can Open Source Hardware Feed the World? 231
jfruhlinger writes "When it comes to food scarcity in the developing world, one of the major problems is production capacity: land that could be arable using modern techniques goes underutilized because locals don't have the ability to build or buy equipment. A group calling itself Open Source Ecology is trying to solve that problem. They've developed a set of open source hardware specs for 50 different industrial machines, which they're calling the Global Village Construction Set."
Primitive agriculture WORSENS poverty (Score:2, Informative)
Your links are typical "green/leftist" propaganda.
For instance, one of the dogmas there says that "70 million Brazilians cannot afford enough to eat".
Propagating that bullshit was one of the reasons Lula [wikipedia.org] was elected president in 2002. One of his campaign promises was his "Zero Hunger" program, to eradicate hunger. Much to his embarrassment after he was elected, the studies he ordered from a federal agency on how to conduct this program was that the poorest in Brazil did NOT suffer from hunger. What they found was that 30% of the Brazilian poorest actually suffered from OBESITY...
Watch the TED video (Score:4, Informative)
There is an entertaining video on this from a presentation at TED (Technology Entertainment and Design) that is only 4 minutes long. And no I've never been.
http://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski.html [ted.com]
Re:Stabilize governments first (Score:4, Informative)
Also like when the USA takes land via imminent domain, you should still pay the landowner for it.
Um, where did you go to school?
First, its Eminent Domain, not imminent domain.
Second, by definition, the land is always paid for [wikipedia.org] when taken by Eminent Domain.