Traumatized America: A proposal for “social” agriculture to improve health
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| Format: | artículo original |
| Statut: | Versión publicada |
| Date de publication: | 2019 |
| Description: | Violence and exclusion traumatize millions of people who can obtain relief through contact with relaxing, biodiverse landscapes, plants, animals, soils, and clean water and air. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) promotes social agriculture as a way to assist and include persons with physical and psychological vulnerabilities to improve their health and self-esteem, particularly by promoting farms that are free of agrochemicals and are not highly mechanized, as well as forests that oxygenate the air and reduce catastrophes such as floods and landslides. The use of simple ecological and sociological methods allows quantification of environmental and service quality for vulnerable populations on farms, which can assist in the development of criteria for providing additional remuneration for farmers devoted to social agriculture, and for the food they produce with fair trade and sustainable agriculture seals. In terms of ecosystem fragility, risks of losses in soil fertility, and high biological and ethno-cultural diversities, social agriculture in the Alps is similar to social agriculture in extensive zones of rural Latin America.Therefore, promoting social agriculture in Latin America is not simply an imitation of foreign practices, but rather offers the possibility of adding value to farms while improving the health of traumatized, vulnerable persons. |
| Pays: | Portal de Revistas UNA |
| Institution: | Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UNA |
| Langue: | Español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.www.una.ac.cr:article/16784 |
| Accès en ligne: | https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/perspectivasrurales/article/view/16784 |
| Mots-clés: | Added value ecosystem services environmental and human health Salud ambiental y humana servicios ecosistémicos valor agregado |