History celebrates the battlefields where we meet our death, but does not speak of the ploughed fields where we thrive; it knows the names of the bastards of kings, but cannot tell us the origin of wheat. This is the path of human folly. Henri Fabre, entomologist and naturalist
The power of multinational corporations, the industrialization of agriculture, and the concentration of markets in food systems have advanced enormously, generating opposition from local communities, social movements, and indigenous peoples
There are some issues such as the loss of crops or the crisis of some sectors that are dangerously used to protect a market system (the real cause of the crisis) even by using “ecological” arguments, dreading environmental degradation as a consequence of reduced CO2 absorption capacity: an adult plant captures 100/250 g of dust and smog per year, and fewer plants implies having less depollution.
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