WORLD WORLDWIDE SPAIN News Journal Update - (en) Spaine, Aragon, Apoyo Mutuo: Ecosocial defense of the territory. (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Our society has tended to be organized around a system of mass production and

consumption, whose operation requires the extraction of large amounts of natural
resources (minerals, vegetables, energy, etc.), while generating a greater amount
of waste. higher than what natural sinks are capable of assuming. All this
generates numerous ecosystem imbalances, observable in the form of loss of
biodiversity, alteration of trophic chains, contamination of aquifers, soils and
the atmosphere, with the consequent global climatic alterations, among other
impacts. ---- This situation is aggravated by the fact that our economic system
pursues indefinite growth, which means that the extraction of natural resources
and the generation of waste always tend to increase. Repeated attempts to
'dematerialize' the economy, despite the effort to develop more "green"
technologies and more sustainable policies, have not been able to correct that
predatory course, nor is it likely that they will.

Many territories are victims of these processes of environmental degradation.
Often, this involves the displacement of populations to other places,
contributing to the demographic concentration in increasingly larger and less
sustainable urban centers.

Historically, the first industrialization gave rise to the first "environmental"
movements formed by the labor movement and which managed to force governments to
approve labor and urban regulations to benefit the quality of life in the
productive centers. "Conservationist" groups also emerged, concerned about the
destruction of the landscape and driven by sensitized elites. A partial solution
that hides the root causes of environmental deterioration, and very limited at a
time when we know that we are facing global risks capable of transcending all
kinds of borders. The dissatisfaction with these approaches led to the rise of
the properly "ecological" movements in the last third of the 20th century;
understanding that the fight against environmental problems goes hand in hand
with the fight against the productive system that generates them.

At present, movements against environmental degradation tend to act in
"platforms" that bring together disparate groups of environmental,
conservationist or ecological sensibilities. These "platforms", as the main way
of articulating the defense of the affected territories, usually have a high
pressure capacity and can manage to paralyze specific threats. However, due to
their lack of internal cohesion, they tend to set very local objectives that are
not very ambitious from an environmental point of view.

Therefore, a broad vision of the causes is necessary, which transcends the local
space to the bio-regional and global. Social environmentalism is proposed as a
way of seeking alternatives to the capitalist model of production and
distribution of goods and capital. It is a way of recognizing that our
technological and socio-economic sphere is part of the global system of the
biosphere, and that to overcome its turbulence we need other forms of collective
organization.

What is agroecology and food sovereignty?
The current agri-food system based on the massive production of food through the
consumption of huge fossil resources and a distribution oriented towards the
global market, despite having generated large amounts of food at low (subsidized)
prices for a large part of the population, has not managed to solve the
nutritional deficiencies of almost a quarter of humanity, at the same time that
it has produced numerous social, economic, political and environmental impacts
that are difficult to ignore. The current agrarian model has diminished the
biodiversity of our territory, it has contaminated aquifers, it has intoxicated
our farmers, it has been the main engine of the rural exodus, it has limited the
power of our governments and it has implanted a neocolonial international regime
with serious consequences for the countries of the Global South.

 From this can be deduced the need to have different agri-food models, which are
framed within the theoretical and practical approaches of 'agroecology', which
are committed to alternative formulas for the relationship between production and
consumption, and to transform the agri-food system from a perspective of 'food'
sovereignty.

The concept of 'agroecology' implies taking into account not only how food has
been produced, but also the production relations that have made it possible.
Agroecological proposals arose in Latin America, the result of the encounter
between scientific knowledge and traditional peasant knowledge, as a response to
the social and ecological crisis generated by the globalization of the industrial
agrifood system. It is estimated that agroecology can be broken down into three
main dimensions:

A set of techniques for a respectful agriculture with the ecosystems
(ecological-productive dimension).

A set of methods for sustainable territorial development (socio-economic and
cultural dimension).

A set of territorial networks made up of people, groups and citizen entities that
characterize its expansion as a social movement (socio-political dimension).

'Food sovereignty', for its part, would imply the right of individuals,
communities, peoples and countries to define their own agricultural, labor,
fishing, food and land policies, in such a way that they are ecologically,
socially, economically and culturally appropriate. to your unique circumstances.
This concept includes not only the right to food, but also the correlative right
of communities to produce food, thus constituting a clear commitment to the
maintenance and promotion of agriculture, but not so much with agro-industrial
practices but based on methods agroecological. From this perspective, it is
understood that it is the right to farm that will guarantee the right to food.

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