"An alliance between city and country: the challenge is necessary and desirable, especially for the protection of environmental resources and landscape. E 'urgent importance to develop a suitable cultural advancement of agriculture and the services and functions of public interest that it is able to play. At the same time, our agriculture must accept, at a time of deep crisis, to compete with the need to redefine its mission: to produce food, cure the common good: "These are the words which begins with the Councillor for Rural Development of the Province of Pisa, James Sanavio.
Councillor Sanavio, she proposes new generation of agriculture. Strategic quality of life of the city and with new roles, what are they?
Agriculture looks to the future, offering high quality products, exploiting its huge potential to be the bearer of values \u200b\u200band lifestyles to recover the capacity to manage natural resources and protect the environment so sustainable. It poses as an ally that can contribute significantly to improving the quality of life of city dwellers. Can propose a model of sustainable development.
Specifically what is the offer of the country to the city?
Agriculture has always offered to the city agricultural products over time have been a progressive increase in quality, but today agriculture can do much more. The campaign presents itself as a bulwark in the defense of land and resources associated with it such as air and water, and irreproducible goods to the survival of man. A well threatened by reckless speculation on its impact on the territories of the infrastructure works, the poorly planned construction. Above all, can perform new functions and offer new services to the city.
What are the new functions of agriculture?
functions of agriculture are all contained in the new concept of multifunctional agriculture, which includes many tasks, including that of local market with fresh produce and low environmental impact (low energy consumption for transportation and zero costs for the storage of products).
The barrier function against pollution, agriculture can help to absorb substantial shares of CO2, protecting water resources, acts as the maintenance of soil conservation and so on.
features recreational and cultural opportunities for recreation and meeting place, but also maintenance of the agricultural landscape that is one of the environmental contexts of the most representative of our country as well as expression of the characteristics identity of our culture, agriculture is a source of renewable energy.
E services?
services are directed to two main social actors: the citizens whom it is addressed the provision of tourist-recreational and conservation of the landscape - a place of memory, knowledge and culture - and public administration with which the Farmers may interact for example, by obtaining, as required by Legislative Decree no. 228/2001, collaboration agreements for the promotion of the productive land, protection of quality production and food traditions, the maintenance of the territory.
But you can also think of "promotional contracts" between PA and farmers who engage in the exercise of the business, to ensure the protection of natural resources, the preservation of the geological, the reduction of emissions and pollution of groundwater, emissions increase oxygen, the maintenance of biodiversity, cultural heritage and the agricultural landscape and forestry.
These contracts would allow cities to promote rapid and cost of environmental rehabilitation initiatives consistent with benefits in terms of landscape and ecological as well as provide public services, such as pedestrian paths, urban parks, etc.. rent with costs significantly lower than those resulting from traditional methods of acquisition, development and direct management.
But I want to remember that farmers always have the role to protect resources that are unplayable now involved with agriculture. Today, therefore, in addition to being an industry policy, agriculture becomes the place where you filed the survival of the city even from the standpoint of energy.
How agriculture can contribute to energy production?
On the one hand, thanks to the short chain, will cut costs of production and puts them into significant energy savings on the other hand I think the production of agrienergie. Subject to agricultural production and protection of the agricultural value chain from which we can not neglect, agriculture can make a significant contribution to sustainable energy production by exploiting the forest, using all production waste - manure pruning - and restoring surfaces to a set side.
In discussing how we can create an alliance between city and country?
The alliance between city and country is primarily a cultural process. Must spread the idea that if we are to survive, we must adopt a new development model and to do so in the first instance it is necessary to awaken society urgent need to recruit new prospects. The same idea behind the Food Plan of the Province of Pisa is the challenge to build an alliance of rural life with all the environmental groups and consumer on the need to reduce the amount of soil, but not only represents a document which describes in which lines will have to develop the agriculture of the future.
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