Dear friends:
Which agriculture investments would you suggest that can improve nutrition? and can you think of interventions that at the same time correct other harms of current approaches and policies, thus creating further opportunities?
The central problem of rural poverty is access to land, water and capital to more fully develop this potential. What technology? Sustainable alternative technologies to minimize the impact on ecosystems and human health.
However, the full autonomy of farmers and exercise of their rights of participation and citizenship and political representation as differential and plural group must be ensured.
This requires: educate and train farmers with the use of virtual platform and didactic manuals; creating healthy habits; innocuous production processes; rescue o traditional production techniques that were replaced by high-impact technology (chemistry); rescue of the traditional culture and solidarity that allows the farmer to be happy with their beliefs and the way to keep the land, preserving their traditional language, cultivate native products without genetic changes; guidance on mutual aid and barter. The farmer must to be able to choose their representatives and are not used in political processes; farmers must be involved in some processes of transformation of the products (Agribusiness).
Another important factor to be considered in the formulation of policies on food and nutrition is the protection of fertile land; intensive agriculture and minery explotation is impacting fertile territories and countries end up having many desertified lands, so, it's time to reflect these issues.
Cordially
Cecilia Murcia Garcia
Cecilia Murcia