Sustainable agriculture

Aspra Gina Maria

Grupa 8218

• Naturally, primarily farmers are those who have a word to say on the path towards sustainable agriculture.

• But we can all contribute to this end

• buying products from sustainable agriculture ;

• buying regional products which have not traveled a long road to the shops too ;

• ensuring that within our own " agriculture " , of our gardens;

• to fatten natural soil residues ;

• to fertilize the earth

• not use pesticides (means of pest control ) and herbicides ( weed extirpation means ) ;

• to plant in our garden , local plants .

Four principles that define sustainability are:

• renewable resources are used only according to their rate of regeneration ;

• exhaustible sources of raw materials used by man not only as long as they can be replaced, both in terms of material and functional.

• environmental damage not overwhelm the natural regeneration of the main factors of the environment - air, soil and water ;

• have maintained a temporary equivalence between the time of the intervention and time of processes in nature.

• Extrapoluating these principles on Agrarian Policy , we will see a sustainable agricultural policy organized so as to enable agriculture:

• characterized in terms of economic;

• characterized in ecologically

• characterized in terms of social;

• characterized in ethically;

• which raises consumer protection to the rank of a new political paradigm;

Most requested products are healthy foods with high nutritional factor and

taking into account the principles stipulated environmental and animal

protection.

• Consumers began to inform the origin of the goods purchased, and companies producing food helps to transform a culture of mistrust into one of trust.

• Politically mature citizen is called to support , by way buying a sustainable agrarian policy , breaking the vicious circle of price competition in retailing. "

Biodynamic cultures

• Throughout the world , more and more farmers cultivate their products in " biodynamic " or "organic"

• First means using techniques that do not use chemical substances or technologies and genetic agricultural industry , and has focused on ecological principles

• Biodynamic crops are sustainable because it is in line with ecological principles .

• They take into account the entire ecological system, which is highly complex and where and from whom he lives , adapting to the natural cycles.

• This holistic approach is a central component of any sustainable desired procedures.

• As leitmotiv of sustainable agriculture we can formulate the following :

• Let us learn from nature instead we want to rule and manipulate !