{"id":13957,"date":"2023-05-26T19:58:33","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T19:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/org.wwoof.it\/2023\/05\/you-reap-what-you-sow\/"},"modified":"2025-03-27T14:59:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T13:59:56","slug":"you-reap-what-you-sow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/org.wwoof.it\/en\/2023\/05\/you-reap-what-you-sow\/","title":{"rendered":"You reap what you sow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The failure of high-intensity production systems to protect the land<\/h2>\n\n<div style=\"height:43px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<p><em>Italian agriculture has no foreign enemies to endanger it,<\/em><br\/><em>it is itself, hyper-productively conducted and aimed at export,<\/em><br\/><em>the cause of the undermining dangers.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p> For some time now there have been outcries that, no less, evoke the danger of the <strong>disappearance of the Italian agricultural<\/strong> production: ranging from those launched during the National Fruit and Vegetable Day (<em>Farewell to 100 million fruit trees<\/em>!), the appeal for support for the production of national durum wheat launched by a farmers&#8217; organization in Puglia, to the statements made a couple of days ago at Macfrut (a major fruit and vegetable fair held in Rimini) in front of President Mattarella to whom, somewhat paradoxically, the problems resulting from the drought that has affected agriculture in the area in recent months were highlighted, just as a cloudburst was occurring that would drop the same amount of rain in two days as should have had fallen in the previous months.<\/p>\n\n<p>Orchards allegedly disappeared over the past 15 years due to the loss of 100,000 ha of crops. However, what is the<strong>cause<\/strong>? No mention is made of the use of <strong>agricultural land<\/strong> for different purposes, unrestrained <strong>urbanization<\/strong> and, at the root of it all, the free-market <strong>economic system<\/strong> that, by aiming everything at a maximum profit, concentrates production where there is the greatest profitability, often outside of Italy.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:43px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\">Read Gianfranco Laccone&#8217;s article<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"height:43px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/org.wwoof.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/imprese-agricole-alluvione-2018-2-1.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13835\" srcset=\"https:\/\/org.wwoof.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/imprese-agricole-alluvione-2018-2-1.webp 640w, https:\/\/org.wwoof.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/imprese-agricole-alluvione-2018-2-1-480x270.webp 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 640px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;ecological&#8221; 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1450,3152],"tags":[1753,2160,3154,3153],"class_list":["post-13957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-our-networks","category-news-en-2","tag-agro-ecological-transition","tag-drought","tag-environmental-impact","tag-floods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/org.wwoof.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/org.wwoof.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/org.wwoof.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/org.wwoof.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/org.wwoof.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13957"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/org.wwoof.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21810,"href":"https:\/\/org.wwoof.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13957\/revisions\/21810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/org.wwoof.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/org.wwoof.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/org.wwoof.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/org.wwoof.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}