Design Studio
Fall 2020

Crop CultivationRestoring Soil Fertility Needs a Radical Change in Our Farming PracticeRonan Crippa, Arianit Ramiqi, and Ekaterina Scholz

The way we cultivate crops today is not sustainable resulting in erosion and loss of biodiversity. Existing soil-conserving cultivation methods are not implemented due to the dilemma between intensification and sustainability. Latter can be bypassed through new multi-scalar implementation models.

Contents
1 Food Crop or Cash Crop?
2 Force-Feeding the Plant or Starving the Soil
3 The Dilemma Between Intensification amd Sustainability
4 New Multi-Scalar Implementation Models
5 A Network of Interventions in the Wehntal Valley

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