Autore
Bocchi, Stefano

Titolo
Ritorno alla terra fertile
Periodico
Scienze del Territorio (Online)
Anno: 2013 - Volume: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 165 - Pagina finale: 172

In the decades of modernisation and land consolidation, Italian agriculture has suffered evident losses and damages less apparent, but equally serious. It lost utilized agricultural area (UAA), going from 17.5 million ha. in 1970 to about 13 million ha. in 2010; farms shrank from 4,300,000 in 1960 to the current 1.6 million, thus eroding the peculiar character of widespread activity; lost or fragmented the internal systems of hedges/rows, lost a large chunk of agro-biodiversity, whilst the precious inheritance of agronomic endogenous knowledge and strategies to adapt to local places, rural art of locality, decreased or atrophied. The window we can open on a sustainable future should turn around two hinges at least: the first concerns the need to get out of the strictly economic perspective that connects welfare only to our levels of income and consumption, the second refers to the need to promote a quality of life really widespread and not reserved for few or confined to some happy islands of territory. This way, we switch from promoting or pushing technologies to create opportunities through an institutional development (this means to apply a scheme of integration for technical, organisational/institutional, political aspects) and through the activation of territorial networks and projects. The return to the fertile land will then see the emergence of new identities, responsible choices and shared values , new and specific policies, projects able to consider the different territorial areas where new jobs will be born.



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