2024 closes as the year with the highest average temperatures since records have been kept and has broken records in melting polar ice, disappearance of coral reefs; extinct species; forest fires, desertification, tornadoes and some more related to hurricanes, landslides and floods with their economic consequences, material damage and loss of human life.
For agriculture, it also meant a complex year full of setbacks in many of the extensive farming areas that were affected by various natural disasters and that now face a reconstruction process that will be long and very expensive.
Crops such as cereals, grains, vegetables and some of the most demanded fruits in the market, among which coffee, corn, wheat and sugar stand out, present regional instabilities in their prices due -precisely- to the harmful impact of the crisis. climate.
As if that were not enough, the consequences of the indiscriminate use of dangerous and harmful chemical fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides – which have also become scarce and very expensive – put at risk the viability of the countries’ economies, represent enormous risks to health and will have terrible consequences on food security.
Many of the arable lands have lost fertility, every day thousands of hectares are lost or desertified; they decline in their ability to absorb nutrients and retain water; organic life and biodiversity and ecosystems are rapidly becoming extinct.
As is known, livestock farming contributes to the generation of greenhouse gases and the extensive use of enormous amounts of water. The pollution of the seas reaches such levels that it is dangerous to consume the food we extract from them in certain regions since the species that inhabit them are exposed to various dangerous substances.
Research institutions and medical specialists have established that the disproportionate and alarming increase in respiratory, cardiac, and congenital diseases; various types of cancer, digestive disorders, diabetes, obesity and poor nutrition – among others – is linked to and is a consequence of the harmful effects of what we eat, breathe and drink every day.
That is the context; However, in the face of great challenges, there is no choice but to face them with the tools at hand: innovation, science, technology, effort, change of attitude, activation and social awareness.
1. The water cycle. Reduce, reuse, recycle until you drop. An issue that must be a priority public policy, not only necessary but urgent to act to combat water waste, its hoarding, pollution and misuse.
It is essential to recover the phases of water, around 97% of all water sources in the world are contaminated. We are extracting it from wells more than 1 km deep and we waste more than 40% of what reaches the cities. That has an enormous cost and gives us an idea of how far we have come and how we are ending the viability of life on the planet.
Profitable, sustainable and efficient technologies already exist and are commercially available to take advantage of -at least- 90% of the water produced, be it industrial, domestic, agricultural, mining, livestock, allocating it to the recovery, conservation and even purification of new reserves. water.
2. Regenerative agriculture. Even in critical conditions of extreme climates, water scarcity and decaying soils; It is possible to double and even quadruple harvests by combining the use of recycled water with clays made from human and animal excrement, food waste, sargassum, biomass, as well as biofertilizers and organic pesticides that are used as supplements, detonators and growth enhancers. reducing the harvest cycle.
Not only that, it can also boost increased biodiversity, improve photosynthesis, higher yields, yield per hectare, flavor, color, size, solid weight, shelf life, nutrient quality and release. to food from the load of heavy metals, elements and harmful substances.
Solutions generated by Artificial Intelligence make it possible to reduce the emission of methane and greenhouse gases; enhance the hydrophilicity of the soil, regenerate the organic life of nature, eliminating suspended particles and making the most of oxygen and nitrogen.
Such procedures act as natural adaptogens that help plants resist water stress, fungal diseases, extreme temperature changes and harmful pests; as well as to improve its ability to get used to elevation, humidity, wind or greenhouse life as the case may be.
All these tools to achieve bioremediation and regeneration of agriculture are available to anyone from a condominium garden; a family farm or large-scale production, its costs are much lower than any other option and have a positive effect on people’s income, productivity, well-being, health and nutrition.
Achieving a better, sustainable, viable, profitable, independent and contaminant-free diet is possible, life and future generations demand it from us.
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