The main reason why countries are spending huge amounts of money to reverse climate change is simply industrial agriculture. Contemporary practices emphasize production rather than sustainability. For example, La Via Campesina (2009) highlights the importance of soil. The transnational movement for traditional agriculture emphasizes that soils are the primary determinants of food. It is the starting point for growing food, regardless of the production method. However, over the past 50 years, industrial agriculture has caused the loss of “30 to 60 tons of soil organic matter for every hectare of agricultural land” (p. 14). As an integral part of agricultural production, industrial practices clearly do not think in the long term. To promote fertile, healthy soils that result in nutritious and abundant food, nations must reduce industrialization. On small farms, industrialization and mechanization are not a necessity. Small producers can rely on sustainable and environmentally friendly practices to produce food. La Via Campesina (2009) argues that by replacing nitrogen fertilizers with organic farming or growing nitrogen-fixing plants, we can promote real land reform (p. 7). Of course, this type of production would be labor intensive, but the amount of energy produced by mechanized production would be significantly reduced.