“For me the turning point came when I started to work on a cotton farm and found out they were even spraying the birds for eating the cotton seeds”

Peter Rutherford

Australian Farmer

Food production the conventional way is só 1970…

The norm is plowing the soil, poisoning the weeds and crops,
chopping most trees, leaving bare ground.

Soil-microbes die, sequestering of carbon fails, the soil compacts and is slow to absorb water.

Results: run off, erosion of topsoil, less evaporation of moisture that would normally cool the micro-climate.

When humans do this on a grand scale, it pushes the weather towards extremes, as we all are experiencing on the globe right now.

Droughts, heatwaves, torrential rains, hurricanes and floods are to a large extent the consequences of the enormous total area of bare ground on this planet.


Everything on our planet is connected.
The Earth is smaller than you experience.


Thought Experiment

Imagine …

What if you, and every person on this planet, would own a fair share of the Earth by a miraculous birthright?
How much usable land would you have?

Almost 4 soccer fields for each of us

Roughly an island of 130 x 150 meters (The landmass 149 million square kilometer divided by 7.6 billion people = 1.9 ha per person.)

But half of this island consists of mountains, barren land, ice sheets, forests, savannas. Great for hiking, very difficult to live on.


of which a patch of 65 x 75m is usable

That is 70 x 80 yd. When you are finished hiking, that is your arable land.
In soccer terms: roughly 8 penalty boxes.

Within that area, at the moment, 13 x 15m (the surface of 4 soccer goals!) is producing all your veggies, fruits, grains, cotton, and even bio-fuel.

The rest, 52 x 60m is now used to raise livestock (3,120m2, circa 3/4 acre) for your dairy and meat.

Note that such an area is not enough to feed your family-cow with her calf throughout the year.

Note about the possibility of raising animals on this plot of 52x60m

You cannot simply put your family-cow on that patch of 52 x 60 m to graze all year. It is too small, it would destroy the plot and the cow. That’s why conventional livestock business, with cramped feedlots, depends on importing fodder, obtained from clearing forests to grow (GMO) soy and corn with pesticides.

If all people would eat as much meat, raised in this way, as westerners, we’d need more planets.

But there is a sustainable way, that even would enrich the soil.

Translated in our thought-experiment: your family-cow should join the cows of other persons in your neighborhood as a big herd and rotate on all ‘gardens’, one patch a day. (taking into account that a cow needs on average 25m2 grasses and herbs per day).

This is mimicking the sustainable way of nomadic herbivores that roamed the grand savannas on Earth for millions of years. It is the solution to sequestering methane and carbon out of the air into the soil as well.


Please correct us if we got the calculations wrong! send us a message


Pixabay under creative commons:

Island Polynesia Julius Silver Austria

On your tiny island, would you let the neighbors dump….

…would you let the neighbors dump….

  • their garbage on the beach?
  • their sewage and motor-oils into the fishpond?
  • would you allow a gaping hole to be excavated in your lovely hummingbird flower corner, digging up minerals?
  • poison the vegetable garden to ripen the grains faster?
  • or let the last oxygen producing trees be logged for wood?

If so, where would your children live afterwards? Where would their food come from?

We can safely assume that nobody would think this to be rational for the long run, no matter how much money he’d receive.



Hectares Forest lost this year. That's 15.4 soccer fields per minute

Hectares arable land lost to erosion and desertification this year = 21188 km2. Roughly the size of Israel

Tons of toxic chemicals like pesticides released into the environment this year. That is 4368 full Olympic swimming pools

The result: more extreme weather, famines

This means the loss of 43.4 million  of those ‘personal gardens’ this year, while we actually need 92 million extra gardens to compensate for population growth.

It explains for a big part the 800 million undernourished people and the circa 28 thousand people who die of famine PER DAY !

But isn’t land-use improving nowadays? It is called the ‘green revolution’, right?

A misleading term, look at its methods:

Till deeply every year, and then leave the soil fallow
  • being sterilized and turning the minerals inert under the hot sun and/ or the drying winds
  • waiting for the heavy rains which’ pounding will compact the soil, streaming into a runoff, taking the minerals downhill
  • even deforest steep slopes, any land will do for the short term
  • use costly chemical fertilizers to compensate for the losses

Livestock in mega factory farms

Feedlots instead of grazing
  • you keep livestock in feedlots or when they are very lucky outside on grass, but always on the same small patch. Hardly any grazing, which means no breaking down of the methane they excrete. The unlucky ones are kept in chains or boxes and never even see daylight
  • Depending on the species, horns, beaks, teeth, tails, testicles get amputated, mostly without anesthesia
  • Low immunity, less productivity? Inject them with antibiotics, vaccines and growth-hormones.
  • Import their fodder cheap, like (GMO-) soy, corn and other grains, from developing nations where there is less control on pollution and deforestation.
  • The resulting slurry is mandatory land-spread by injectors.
  • No worries about the imbalances all this creates: worldwide, in the animals and consumers, in the microbe population in your fields and in the groundwater. Methane is a far more potent greenhouse gas than CO2. If animals would be grazing on healthy pastures (evaporating moist), it gets broken down rapidly, 100x faster than produced by the animals.

And this you call food

  • Last step: pack everything in foam, plastic and cans that leak hormone disrupters which diminishes the fertility of your consumers
  • and this you advertise as food.

Monoculture, because it is 'efficient'

Simply kill everything but the cash-crop
  • strip, burn, spray, control every thing else
  • sow preferably GMO seeds so you can spray more roundup to save the money of manual weeding
  • spray poisons against the ‘plagues’ that come to feast on your crop.
    Since you leave no room for nature, there are no predators to help you. And the critters come to your field  because they have nothing else left to eat,
    Don’t bother that the pesticides, like Neonicotinoids, kills also insects like bees that you need to pollinate your crops…

spraying herbicides, even just before harvest

Most used: Roundup (glyphosate), developed by Monsanto (now merged with Bayer); second most used: Atrazine, made by Syngenta
  • spray glyphosate on grains just before harvest to dry all the kernels earlier and at once! Or spray it on potatoe plants, cotton and pulses to defoliate so it is easier to harvest.
  • the producers still tell glyphosate is safe, although the World Health Organization defined it as a class 2a ‘probable’ carcinogen (probable = more than possible). By the way, the term ‘probable’ entered the eventual definition under pressure of industry lobbiers. Scientists had earlier defined it as carcinogen, period.
  • glyphosate is suspected to cause non-Hodgkin lymphoma, food-intolerance and auto-immune diseases.
  • Atrazine is sprayed on weeds in pastures, sugarcane, corn and wheat. Although it showed in animal tests to damage their liver, kidneys and heart. Male frogs are chemically castrated when they swim in water with concentrations 30 times lower than allowed levels.

Processing of the harvest

ever more genius…
  • Transport produce all over the planet to process it somewhere and then transport the end-product back again.
  • This processing involves
    gassing to ripen
    enhancing with artificial flavors, preservatives, fillers and other additives


We couldn’t have made it up


Spraying grains, Public Domain Pictures, Pixabay, accessed April 26, 2018

Avocado: with license from Elegant Themes


So why are we letting this happen in our common garden, our planet?!

Are citizens and farmers not aware of the devastation?

“If so, where does one start as an individual? Recycling and buying organic is time consuming and expensive.  And what is the point, if your government is still supporting polluting industries.

Since people feel powerless to change things, they seek meaning in life through instant gratification with consumer goods and social media.”

Suman Natarajan

Head Quality and Ethics KORPOS

“And for farmers it is financially difficult to make the transition to organic. Taxes are too high, prices for their produce are too low – because of manipulation of global food prices and because of middle men – and in their spare time they have to keep up with forever changing regulations.

In all sectors of economy producers are under pressure. Investors want fast returns and don’t demand ethical behavior.

Simone Henning

Environmental anthropologist, Research & Innovation Dept KORPOS

Do we need more governance?

” I don’t think so. The Sovjet Union was top-heavy but the state of the environment was disastrous. And in the UN, it was not because of a lack of funding that it took some 40 years to ban DDT and asbestos… Policymakers were under pressure of giant corporations.
Secondly, who controls the controllers? Concessions for fracking, logging and mining keep being extended where there already exists regulation. The mentality at the top and the status quo must change, before you give those echelons even more power and money.”

Donna Vanderloo

Co-founder and CEO KORPOS

“The status quo is set in stone by CEO’s without compassion and moral backbone. Bonuses and admiration from peers are more important to them than the thriving of life on our planet. They keep their employees in ignorance through compartmentalization.  And dependency on making a living is too big to become whistle-blowers.

Most societies show a top down power structure, enabled by a collusion of government, big corporations, financial institutions, billionaire investors, scientists and fake news media.
People should stop to expect change from politics”

Miguelangelo Borjaille

Founder and CSO KORPOS

now how do we fix this ?

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.

Buckminster Fuller 1982



References and images


Pixabay under creative commons:
Devastation Marion Wunder Germany
Selfie Luis Wilker Perelo
Free flying parrots Anna Sulencka Poland

Our solution:
Bypass these causes all together

The Land Ownership Token Project,

so you can join us in planting trees.


Hummingbird by Dominic Hoffman from Waghaeusel, Germany. Through Pixabay




In summary

Why this project?

We cannot wait for politicians to save our environment. Farmers need the support of the public to switch to organic and even beyond

Farmers are becoming tired of the old-fashioned ways too. A new generation of farmers is ready to ‘go restorative’. but they cannot do it on their own. The Land Ownership Token will give them a boost.

Why farmers need to switch to regenerative methods?

The earth is small. Each person now ‘has’ 65 x 75 m for subsistence! We cannot continue to erode the topsoil and lose its water-absorbing capacity. Also because extreme weather on the globe and famines are for a large part caused by the so called ‘green revolution‘ ways

The buffer against extreme weather is to ‘cover’ Earth in semi-permanent green, preferably with a mix of an enormous variety of food trees and crops.

Decreasing the use of fossil fuels is not enough. Greening the planet would do the job much faster and would create abundance for every human and for wildlife.

Why change is usually so slow?

Life is already a struggle, consumers can’t afford organic.
Farmers, like every producer, are under pressure from investors, keeping up with the changing rules, taxes, world commodity prices.
Politics is in the grip of big industries, where at the top there is no concern for anything but profit.

The status quo seems to be set in stone. So we have to start a new model that bypasses all these reasons.

Why a crypto on a blockchain?

To gain global momentum. When a token can be traded on a crypto exchange it can go viral. Millions of small investors for the good cause could make a powerful change. Simply ignore and forget about the 1% at the top.

Blockchain technology makes the project transparent, controllable and secure: immutable registration of ownership and tracking of production.


Inactive account ID 12019, Africa, desert landscape
Through Pixabay, under creative commons
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