Creating Jobs. Ideas for Governments

One idea is to get governments to stimulate the world economy by providing small pieces of land to unemployed people throughout the world so that they can farm and provide for their families and sell produce for a little extra money. It has been found that large state run farms can be inefficient. With this in mind it seems that small family farms might be the best bet. If the government remained the owner of the land so that bad farmers could be asked to leave this could solve the problem of the bad farmer who owns the land continuing to stay and being unproductive. The state could start by buying land and dividing it into smaller sections that are suitable for small scale farming.

On a smaller scale, in some countries, plots of land (garden size) are allocated to residents of cities so that they can grow their own vegetables.

In some cities food is grown in the streets. In Havana in Cuba urban agriculture has been encouraged with people using vacant land in the city so that there is better food security. Urban farmers were then able to market their produce directly to the consumers. 

 In Mozambique people can apply for land to farm on without buying the land. Couldn’t other countries do the same?

Another idea to alleviate poverty is to allow people to grow industrial hemp, especially where there is little vegetation at present. Hemp can reduce soil erosion, can be used for clothes, and making cooking oil and for many other purposes. It needs virtually no attention and if a great mass of hemp was grown it would reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and reduce global warming. Of course if the hemp is burnt it adds carbon dioxide to the air, but more hemp could be grown to take the carbon dioxide out again.

Another idea is to make it easier to work from home and so reduce rental costs, reduce transport costs and save time getting to and from work.

Another is to have factories surrounded by houses in which people live and provide services to the factory – perhaps a workshop in the basement of a house could machine parts for the factory and so on.