In Portugal, the challenges to create excessive consistency in agriculture requires excessive knowledge and science, reorganizing traditional agricultural practices and adaptation of extreme agriculture. In Portugal, the development of family agriculture and urban and suburban gardens refers to a stable and innovative opportunity, and can contribute to the development and coordination of short circuits of biodiversity and maintenance in rural areas, and their incentives in the urban and surrounding environment.
Writer Jono Costa *
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General Agricultural Policy (PAC) emphasizes the need to balance the competitiveness, novelty and stability. Three of the ten objectives of PAC are directly associated with the environment, the struggle against climate change, the protection of the environment and the landscape and biodiversity. In renovating these guidelines, family agriculture and urban gardens in Portugal can emerge as a potential solution to local food production, ensuring quality standards and social justice for small farmers and urban horticultural, if there are no regular supplies in public canteen and restaurants, until they can properly regulate the regular requirements for family consumption surplus. Reducing the dependence on logistics chains, they play a strong contribution to national food sovereignty and reduce the carbon footprint because they reduce food traffic in long distances.
For example, in Lisbon, there are more than 3,000 installments in social gardens, where residents produce new food for their own consumption, in some cases, for direct sale in local markets. This model brings close to producers and consumers, reduces waste and promotes consumption of new seasonal and proximity.
In addition, family and urban agriculture is a pillar of stable growth, playing a strong role in low environmental impact and biodiversity protection. The diversity of crops in small vegetable gardens not only enhances soil pollination and fertility, but also creates unique, green and aesthetic landscapes. The combination of a flower bed, greens, carrots, tons, clover and sebolo demonstrates the compliance between mutual beneficial organisms, which promotes a uniform environmental system.
Standard tourism cuts with the appreciation of the gardens. Local restaurants and agricultural tourism projects are likely to consume these products, these real external museums, ancestral cultural practices and plant materials, unique, practically human labor, external, environmental gims, and visiting, harvesting workshops and fertilizers, etc. The submerged experience of tourists in local production creates TI Ravam for a horticultural expert and his family, strengthens awareness of stability and promotes healthy eating habits.
However, despite the obvious benefits, family agriculture faces significant challenges. Access to adequate lands, regulating agricultural procedures and the lack of financial concessions for the bureaucrats associated with them and their micro -power supply is obstacles that require political and structural solutions. The implementation of municipal policies to support family agriculture can be translated into the following forms: Land Bank; Financial support for microscopic investments in manufacturing and marketing; Free technology, field and bureaucratic technology services; Support the logistic support and their commercialization system in preparing the market products; Adjusting fees to provide school canteen; Support in obtaining a license of activity; Etc.
These tools are the strongest levers of the municipal public policies, appointing councilors with agricultural Belro, near the municipal elections, without forgetting the importance, to accelerate the expansion of this standard model. Thus, there are many more opportunities in the food identity of each region and improve the sustainable agricultural practices to suit the territory.
The integration of family and urban agriculture in the school curriculum refers to an education, creating and environmental appropriate opportunity. Teaching children and young people about stable food production, composting and cultural biodiversity strengthens the determination for a lush future. Currently, some Portuguese schools are already organizing visits to bio family farmers and teaching gardens, promoting practical learning and eating healthy local foods.
Using extensive agricultural procedures of solo, family and urban agriculture in organic, fertile matters, many families have weak financial resources, along with the high concentration of new foods, with high concentrations, high -diversity organisms, without any additional effort, and most will not penetrate. Impact on traffic.
Family and urban agriculture proves that the production of food in a stable way, reducing environmental impacts and strengthening local economies. By participating in the support of adequate public policies and participating in the active part of the society, this typos of agriculture will make the rural and non -rural space into a more resilient, environmental and self -sufficient locations, which ensures the future of the most stable diet for the next generation.
* Writer and Environmental Engineer. The article was originally published in the Agrubal.
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