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Perhaps as consumers already have enough to have taken the step to eat organic, which is more expensive, to think what to do with onions (is that this year have much and they start up) ... you learn to recognize the organic label and have an idea of \u200b\u200bwhat agriculture is different from "normal." Well, today I would like to present some ideas for the soup of agricultural models. Twenty years ago

apprentice gardener for many our key question was: conventional farming or organic? And some practical questions were how to compost and fertilize, how to prevent aphids from whom to learn ... then when I tried to sell leeks and communicate what they were different, one day I met a businessman who wanted to cool food soups manufacture and export eco stamped envelope from dried vegetables produced in India and it annoyed me so much my own as well be called.

consumer associations in echoing the 90 we came across a huge range of eco-labeled products produced in distant countries, for large companies. Many thought that the quality of an onion should be measured including working conditions, size of farm, economic and power relations in the whole circuit, distance-and diesel-land-cooked dish.
The organic label provides an assurance of "clean" (no synthetic fertilizers or pesticides) production, and animal welfare in livestock. But organic farming concepts, eco, bio, protected in this case by the European Regulation (EC) 834/2007, are limited to what the text says, quite comprehensive about farming methods and products used, but not enters the social or economic model.

In the world of the pioneers of organic farming found people fascinating hedges planted decades ago, defended the local direct sales, self-management, seeds and breeds ... and ennobled the scene and the name of "farming" going beyond the rules with much heart. Brightened my beginnings among others, Arantza Arrien, Javier Aldaya, Cabot brothers, the cooperative's Green

Villamartin ... Now, with many people and there are companies of all sizes that meet the regulation, for example, large conventional warehouses with eco wine section, not to lose that market, its label and get it.
other hand millions of small farmers around the world, especially in poor countries make family farming and ecological nearly or completely sold on the local market without any inspector or seal.

When a few scientists and agronomists began to spread the word AGROECOLOGY Which includes the socio-ecosystem also in the way of assessing how food is produced, was an open door for many. Agroecology would be the science that would "better grade" to the Guatemalan community to sell their excess bulk in the local market than the large European company exporting organic ready-to-all-the-labels and packaging.

Parallel, the people closest to the land emerged almost two decades, the Via Campesina, a coalition of 148 organizations of small and medium peasant farmers (such as "unions" close EHNE or COAG), day laborers, rural women and communities Indians. Represents some 200 million peasants. Popularized the concept of food sovereignty as the right of peoples to define their agricultural policies and to produce food locally, the right of individuals to decide what to grow and what we eat.
not the same as food security, a concept much more institutional and paternalistic to my view. La Via Campesina
advocates a sustainable family agriculture oriented to local markets. It also supports small-scale fisheries and traditional pastoralism.
was thus globally profiled other polarity: AGRICULTURE RURAL vs AGRIBUSINESS or agribusiness.
At one extreme is the local traditional agriculture sustainable small to produce food.

At the other end agribusinesses make money. For decades simplifying agricultural landscapes in the world. Artificial market conditions that destroy the farmers and push them into the cities, have been taking their place. Filling the shelves of food hyper standardized or trash, polluting, warming the planet with greenhouse gases, legally stealing land from the forest, carrying absurdly million tons of feed or food from one extreme to another planet. Approach to global control of food, from seed to distribution. Proponents say it's the only way to feed the planet. However, it is shown that this model generates more hunger and produce much less food per unit of energy invested.

are our environment and are in our everyday contradictions: You take a tortilla and a skewer of cane or innocently enter hyperspace, you grab a tray of chicken breasts, pork sausage, a pear, a ciabatta ... may well be animals raised within a hundred miles from home but with soy-based feed transgenic cultivated on land stolen from the jungle in South America. Because livestock eat feed European transatlantic origin. The Europeans can not prime areas for both livestock and eat. Pears of an export company in Chile. In the case of bread, wheat can come from Ukraine if block, but Coming from Navarra or Valladolid, agribusiness are financing, the big machines, herbicides and chemical fertilizers.
in our cities is hard to live without support this.

But still most of the world's population eat mostly local food and farming, although more and more foods are charged tolls to large agribusinesses. This wave of legal theft, both land and seed gene (biopiracy), food rights, water ... also warms the planet and grows protected by powerful institutions that claim to fight poverty and promote development.
Thus, for many small organic farmers in countries rich, not to mention the manure, the aphid and the hens, the key question has become peasant agriculture or agribusiness?

Everyone lives can, and each farmer is situated more or less close to one of those two extremes. For us, still fighting with our contradictions, farming is the horizon and the way we walk. Besos
Iñigo

to learn more:
www.viacampesina.org