THE GLOBAL NEED FOR A SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURAL MODEL - Its adoption and some of the benefits derived from the process mth special reference to the Argentinean case

摘要

Since the beginning of agriculture, ten thousand years ago, the cultivation of plantswere basically managed by doing some kind of soil tillage. Even the strategy wasuseful to accompany an ever increasing human demand for agricultural products,the cost in terms of natural resources degradation -- as soil erosion, fresh waterdepletion and other undesirable impacts -- were too high and at the present timethey should be consider as no longer affordable by humanity. A new conciliatoryformula and agricultural approach is absolutely needed to be able to simultaneouslykeep and even enlarge the actual agricultural output and at the same time keep thecapacity to do it in the future. In other words the achievement of a higher level ofproductivity and profit obtained with a higher level of sustainability must be seenas the new goal and as an urgent need.