posted 10 years ago
Sounds cool, but why use this system to encourage an adherence to conventional monocrop farming? You mention fields of corn, soy, etc. Seems all the better to me to offer this opportunity to PDC holders with some good designs and field work under their belts, but no money. Let them make of a go of it instead. Then you've conserved and improved the agricultural land, plus created an example for other farmers in the area of a different way of doing things that can be both more reliable and more economical.
I do like the general idea. Where are you thinking your funds would come from? Your own pocket? Donors? I'm a little fuzzy on how the money used to buy the land would be repaid. A portion of the new farmer's profits each year? It seems like kind of a tough thing to get rolling unless you can bankroll it yourself.