Humanistic Agriculture
Humanistic Agriculture
When more than 150 years ago it started what was then called “Industrial Revolution” the winds of the Enlightenment and of Positivism brought in the Western world and its people the belief that an era of well-being and progress had opened forever.
Unlimited growth, and a future in the name of Humanity now freed from the “weight” of nature and its harsh rules.
The industrial revolution was a process of evolution or economic industrialization of society that agricultural and craft-trade system became a modern industrial system characterized by the general use of mechanical power driven machinery and the use of new inanimate energy sources (such as fossil fuels), all favored by a strong component of technological innovation and accompanied by growth phenomena, starting economic growth and profound socio-cultural changes and even political.
One of the activities that has suffered the most profound transformations was just agriculture; It addressed in the Western world and in our country, especially after the Treaty of Rome, to a very productive model outside of and above the ability of the ecosystem.
Nearly 60 years of this “experiment” are appearing all over their failure with a load of responsibility and mistakes that we all participated.
Among these responsibilities first of all the economic and financial criteria distant applications, incompatible with the thermodynamic models of nature and, therefore, with its economy.
Without citing data from an environmental and social disruption (desertification, biodiversity loss, rural exodus, etc.), Under the eyes of all, it considers that the current agri-food model should be totally redefined in order to prevent, in a few years , an ecological and social catastrophe of global proportions.
The criteria on which it was founded the “modern” agriculture, despite the poetic attempt of the Cork Conference in 1996, are based on totally erroneous concepts:
• The specialization of agricultural production;
• Profit Maximization, undocked from the ecological balance;
• The use of external and unrelated to fertilization systems to business process;
• Unbalanced relationship between crop and livestock production;
• improper use of the powers and mechanized users;
• Inadequate relationship between social unit (family) and ecological cell (farm).