Recovery Of Marginal Agricultural Land With Crops Environmentally Sustainable
There is a new way of relating to the non-urbanized territory, for what remains of places just “healthy”, not compromised by the cement (and there are, nevertheless, still many).
Never like in this time the earth, the soil, the landscapes that appear or have been damaged or are in danger, and we talk about regional realities (areas of low or high plains, foothills, highland and mountain, coastal or marine lagoon …) and companies in the world, “distant” as the phenomenon in the poor countries of the Global South (Africa, Latin America …) to appropriation by small and powerful group of private lands to large extent: the so-called “land grabbing “with the relocation of agricultural and agro-industrial enterprises in these areas almost always managed to mere function of yield capitalstica encouraging monoculture and the human colonization of sites by owners of these came from afar.
Complex and diverse situations, micro and macro, regional and global-local-world. The change of use of agricultural land from food production to human and animal dedicated crops for biomass and solar panels; infrastructure projects that take up a lot of ground; in times of financial crisis, the rush for land as a safe haven; return to the land of various social categories .. young, unemployed, returning migrants; the re-naturalization of certain parts of cities (gardens, canals, ….) or former industrial areas or even in peri-urban agricultural land degraded; research fields where to dispose of waste material treatment plants, composting, farming, biogas plants …… are just a few themes that appear in the first draft of proposed materials and discussions for the associations that we have mentioned above. For our part, we find this strategy for the future of all places (and our future, our children, the future generations …) and very interesting.
Notwithstanding that there is more than ever an effort (these days where you need to identify concrete lines of change), to make a list of things feasible, practical, possible to give a thrust to a new approach to land, ‘agriculture, goods produced for food use (but also for other purposes, such as energy), to stop pollution and use of land.
Unacceptable, for example, it appears that today the use of the land has a little ‘stop (a little) for reasons of political decision-making, cultural, environmental … but only because there is the economic crisis that blocks construction of expansion in new areas virgins , infrastructure impacting, etc. when did the virtuous soil conservation may be made by choice and not responsible for the current economic climate?
But it is also true that perhaps this “stop” a ruinous development (a “stop” in any case moderate: if you can continue …) could be an important and exciting opportunity to finally understand that each take “real” economic and being passed to new management and attitude towards the “good” represented by agricultural land, have not yet been urbanized.
The earth as a restoration project where neglect has occurred in recent decades (emblematic in the Italian north-east is the “low mountains”, the extended sites that are between the plains and foothills, and mountains “tourist”).
The earth as job opportunities and income (a return to nature in a new way than the farmer of decades ago).
The earth like environment and landscape to preserve or recover.
The earth as a producer of food pollution: to enlarge the borders of organic or biodynamic.
Maybe all you need to focus on a new role of the worker, the work on the ground, in contact with it: the farmer “new” necessarily becomes an operator environmental, technical, scientific, cultural, historical … that must be able to understand and manage a large part of the supply chain of agricultural products (farm to fork); must perceive and be able to manage new potential uses both economically and environmentally attractive land abandoned and / or poorly fertile (or difficult to work with, such as soils and sloping terraces into disuse).
To propose the possible new food products from start (because there is a demand, there is a market ...), or provide for the reconstruction of lowland woods (existing three hundred years ago ...) for the production of wood chips (ie chopped wood for use as energy source). A farmer's ability to get involved in these new innovation, new economic opportunities, accompanied and aided by the "political" institutions that "create the market" on certain products, so that it develops "offering" (for as an incentive for all public buildings to wood chip boilers, firewood or in school canteens opting for organic food products with local tax for all retailers with food products at zero distance). So over all, and the myriad of needs and specific proposals to be realized, it is clear that the new era in social, cultural, economical "post-crisis" will have the bet to win a new concrete attitude, land, agricultural land; and recovery virtuoso of each territory now abandoned.
In the Foundation are, as in any other sector, technicians and specialists for the conservation and recovery of marginal agricultural land and environmentally sustainable crops, and a manner so as to ensure any project the right expertise and the right penalty.
Dr. Enrique De La Caridad Angulo Borrero
