FOOD SECURITY
For Counter-Terrorism
Terrorist and other controlling groups like to keep populations they seek to exploit on the brink-of-starvation to facilitate control. They are then forced to support these groups to obtain needed foods.
Food security is an essential to secure these vulnerable populations. NGO volunteers and target government personnel will need to work with such farmers to teach innovative means to dramatically increase food crop production.
The following farming skills have proven successful in achieving this goal:
☐ Utilize agroecology and organic farming without use of chemicals, pesticides, or commercial fertilizers.
☐ Add low-till practices, planting of legumes and green manures, plus addition to soils of organic compost improve soil fertility and crop yields. Enhance these efforts by soil amendments using biochar inoculated with cultured soil microbes producing plant nutrients.
☐ If rainfall is not sufficient for good crops, available water resources will need to be developed for drip irrigation with clean, non-contaminated water. Such water sources come from underground reservoirs, lakes, rivers, and desalination plants where salt is removed from sea water.
☐ Poor and sandy soils need to be improved by adding some clay particles and a 05 percent to 08 percent addition of the above said biochar to root-zones of selected crop rows.
☐ Where environments are too windy, micro-climate cropping areas should be created using 5-row shelter belts of trees to block heavy winds that dry soils and damage crops.
☐ Add natural and artificial ground covers and windbreaks to the above as needed to fully limit wind damage.
☐ Plant a symbiotic mix of location-appropriate crops; e.g. food, feed, forage, fiber, niche, tree, green energy and algal crops using tubal algalculture for the latter.