In Europa, ogni tre minuti scompare un'azienda agricola, negli ultimi 40 anni 7 milioni di superficie sono been subtracted to ' farming and the number of farmers has halved over the past 25 years. At the same time in the last fifty years have seen an increase in agricultural inputs : EU farmers use inorganic fertilizers more than tripled since 1960 and 320,000 tons of pesticides a year, or about 2 kg per hectare. We are witnessing the intensification and concentration of agricultural production , and further cuts in the Common Agricultural Policy, will encourage further abandonment of the so-called marginal lands (hills and mountains which represent 85% of Italian territory) to lowland areas and to products low value added work, with excesses of chemistry, water, low-quality products that will go to swell the popular suburbs, near the headquarters of the discount penniless university canteens or workers for eating more and more selective.
In Europe, water consumption for agriculture increased exponentially, and are around 60% of total withdrawals, in Italy the water used to irrigate more than 30 billion cubic meters a year. The EU agricultural
choices are increasingly linked to international markets, new factors such as monetary fundamentalism continue spending cuts for the sacred defense of the Stability Pact. Choices dictated to the WTO tend to focus on crops with high yield per hectare highly water demanding. The agricultural practices based on agriculture hyperintensity deplete the soil, with all the ensuing consequences are erosion, blocking the natural replenishment of water supplies, loss of soil fertility, with further increase of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, pollution from which of freshwater and marine.
The productivity of the hybrids introduced with the "green revolution " price was high energy inputs and a large outdoor water consumption, massive use of fossil fuels in cars and agrochemicals. These factors have created and continue to feed on the one hand, the dependence farmers by agribusiness corporations and other serious problems for biodiversity and for the general health of the territories and populations. The situation could worsen dramatically if the EU decided under the pressures of agricultural and food companies and the United States to promote the marketing of genetically modified seeds strongly pumps.
social movements of the most remote areas of the world but there's a clear indication about the value of different agricultural practices, agriculture out of WTO rules (the food is not a commodity), a different role of public research, the ' peasant agriculture guarantor of food sovereignty, recovery and enhancement of agricultural cultures that enrich the soil, enhance the use of local varieties heritage of centuries of farming knowledge, variety often have genetic resistance to parasites, environmental stresses and less water demanding. The subtraction of
seed and patents from the hands of multinationals, instead considering Heritage (request made by the peasant movements in Porto Alegre in UNESCO) can be chosen key in restoring a balanced relationship with the environment and return the control of agricultural production and their quality in the hands of the people, taking them to the multinationals.
Fights for the struggles for land and water can be welded in the re-appropriation by the citizens, the right to govern the territory in which they live. It is important that the principle of food sovereignty and the right to assert themselves as the good life values \u200b\u200bin general regulate relations between countries and peoples.
agriculture in all its meanings in relation to man-nature relationship is crucial to stem the progressive encroachment of vital resources and at the same time, promote new values. In this battle for the first human right to life but also good health understood as what is produced life on earth, and how it occurs, is central. And a good use of water is a prerequisite for it to realize a 'altragricoltura "to another company.
In Europe, water consumption for agriculture increased exponentially, and are around 60% of total withdrawals, in Italy the water used to irrigate more than 30 billion cubic meters a year. The EU agricultural
choices are increasingly linked to international markets, new factors such as monetary fundamentalism continue spending cuts for the sacred defense of the Stability Pact. Choices dictated to the WTO tend to focus on crops with high yield per hectare highly water demanding. The agricultural practices based on agriculture hyperintensity deplete the soil, with all the ensuing consequences are erosion, blocking the natural replenishment of water supplies, loss of soil fertility, with further increase of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, pollution from which of freshwater and marine.
The productivity of the hybrids introduced with the "green revolution " price was high energy inputs and a large outdoor water consumption, massive use of fossil fuels in cars and agrochemicals. These factors have created and continue to feed on the one hand, the dependence farmers by agribusiness corporations and other serious problems for biodiversity and for the general health of the territories and populations. The situation could worsen dramatically if the EU decided under the pressures of agricultural and food companies and the United States to promote the marketing of genetically modified seeds strongly pumps.
social movements of the most remote areas of the world but there's a clear indication about the value of different agricultural practices, agriculture out of WTO rules (the food is not a commodity), a different role of public research, the ' peasant agriculture guarantor of food sovereignty, recovery and enhancement of agricultural cultures that enrich the soil, enhance the use of local varieties heritage of centuries of farming knowledge, variety often have genetic resistance to parasites, environmental stresses and less water demanding. The subtraction of
seed and patents from the hands of multinationals, instead considering Heritage (request made by the peasant movements in Porto Alegre in UNESCO) can be chosen key in restoring a balanced relationship with the environment and return the control of agricultural production and their quality in the hands of the people, taking them to the multinationals.
Fights for the struggles for land and water can be welded in the re-appropriation by the citizens, the right to govern the territory in which they live. It is important that the principle of food sovereignty and the right to assert themselves as the good life values \u200b\u200bin general regulate relations between countries and peoples.
agriculture in all its meanings in relation to man-nature relationship is crucial to stem the progressive encroachment of vital resources and at the same time, promote new values. In this battle for the first human right to life but also good health understood as what is produced life on earth, and how it occurs, is central. And a good use of water is a prerequisite for it to realize a 'altragricoltura "to another company.
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