Tomato
You recently, in a personal capacity, expressed your opinion on agriculture biological stating that you do not "believe" that it can feed the world, thus challenging the outcome of the international conference held in Rome from 3 to 5 May under the aegis of FAO Which claimed that more than thirty years of experience on all continents, farming had demonstrated its capacity to feed the entire world population as well as conventional agriculture, without nuisances generated by the latter.
If I had to make my contribution to the debate about this new unnecessary controversy on "cinema and hunger in the world," j'inverserais rather the question: "Does Agriculture Industrial can feed the world? Expected for that 'moment it is not managed and there, in spite of the green revolution, the number of undernourished people has aggravated the past 30 years, while its negative effects are becoming more obvious and devastating.
Rural-urban migration in 40 years hemorrhage resulted in the disappearance of a holding Silent every 1 / 4 hours in France, every 2 minutes in Europe, every half-second on the planet, because of industrialization and the model of artificial food.
Soil degradation: 1 / 3 arable land were sterilized or latersees in 30 years.the shortage of water: for irrigation, 73% water pumped to the surface is used by intensive agriculture, the effectiveness of its soluble fertilizer depends. That is why most of freshwater resources are threatened by this model of production.
Pollution is widespread: they groundwater aquifers, air, river water, soils are contaminated with pesticides, nitrates, hormones, antibiotics, heavy metals . The collapse of bio-diversity: 100 species per day disappear, 75% edible plants grown in a century have disappeared (FAO figures.).The appropriation of resources and Heritage common with some financial oligarchies: the landless could eat without the help of rich countries if we let them have their legitimate questions . Desertification: 1 has happening in the desert every 4 seconds on the planet - (figures in the international conference in Rio).
the migration of populations caused by social or ethnic conflict resulting degradation of their bombs Global Environment delayed for balance and peace.
9 °) extravagant Agriculture dependence on fossil fuels tomorrow, without the petroleum, which becomes Agriculture industrial, mainly oil?
Global warming: the responsibility of the Agriculture and the industrial model are food for 1 / 3, responsible for emissions of greenhouse gases. Sir, do you think it is not time to stop promote this model? The indicators disasters they are not sufficiently convincing? This model is known: - Anti-Economics: without public subsidies or there would tax the citizens more ...
Anti-ecological: ill destroyed more goods than it produced, natural and it is not deteriorating renewable ... -- Anti-Social exsangues it leaves whole territories, which are dismantled community and the fabric Local Economies ...
Finally this model is the antithesis of public health: doctors from all sides, scientists, Nobel Prize of increasing calls to reduce the negative impact on Agriculture Food and Environment, which depends on the health of living beings. ..
Should we continue to s'illusionner on this mode of production that threatens the balance of ecosystems, and the very existence at the end of humanity?
I think we have the opposite rehabilitate farmers on behalf sufficient, rather than substitute them of their polluting and expensive fireworks of the chemical industry which has since replaced in the field 1 / 4 of a century. We must reverse this exodus for a return to Earth, the care of our common heritage, the preservation of resources and the benefits of sustainable production, generating millions of jobs not relocated.
Everywhere small farmers him Engineering has done wonders for millenniums. Why not inspired there no examples of which abound in the world and in human history. They demonstrate that agriculture is to rural or food cent more productive thousand times per unit of output that industrial agriculture. It is also - contrary to what some people say - more productive per unit area. A recent study of several universities, including American and Indian, synthesizing the results of 293 comparative studies between conventional agriculture and farming, shows that in the northern countries the results are virtually equivalent in the South Organic farming yields higher at 80% to those of conventional agriculture. It can therefore only respond to the challenges of our time: "Feeding lasting the entire planet without damaging them." That was precisely the conclusion of the conference of experts from FAO in Rome in May this year, you are appealing today.
We are ready to engage in a true debate over these issues because time is running out and it is the duty of our generation to repair damage them that we have caused. Can you help us in and helping to organize within your institution?
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