Wholistic farming

Stop adapting the the land to western farming techniques and adapt the farming techniques to the land.  Highly productive, low input methods of farming have developed ecological farming and design.  The key features are:

• Build soil through mulching, cover cropping, and adding plants that repair soil fixing nitrogen, accumulating deep nutrients, or breaking up hard soil.
• Store water in the soil using swale systems, humus generated through soil building, and shading the soil to prevent erosion, runoff, loss of nutrients.
• Practice polyculture by planting and rotating many different species to make it harder for insects and disease to spread, reduce reliance on one crop, and keep the land healthy.

The transition process can start at a farmer’s doorstep and gradually expand without major risk or large amounts of outside resources and money.
Resources include Introduction to Permaculture by Bill Mollison (founder of permaculture design), The Natural Way of Farming by Masanobu Fukuoka (microbiologist and life long farmer), indigenous farming techniques native to the region in question.