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Our agriculture the opposite of the 'tragedy of the commons'
Pastoral method’s lack of a brand/name is the opposite of the ‘tragedy of the commons’
(sticK - 20 Sept 2012 ) Our failure to neither name nor own the story to our pastoral method is a type of opposite ‘tragedy of the commons’. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons)
The TotC was (and still is in some arenas, e.g. fishing) an overuse and overexploitation of a common piece of grazing land – precisely because nobody owns it, but everyone is entitled to its use.
In our case (NZ Inc) our pastoral method is indeed owned by us all.
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