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The challenge of healthy and local foodstuffs

The challenge of healthy and local foodstuffs
2017. Hilling (a traditional way of turning over the soil) with horses in the Parque Agrario de Fuenlabrada. Photo: Francisco Pérez Molina © Francisco Pérez Molina

The challenge of healthy and local foodstuffs

Given the profound crisis which peri-urban farming is undergoing, we can only ensure its viability and survival from a new paradigm of land development where the management and defence of the market garden is seen as a strategic reserve for producing food, and where the keystone for its management are small and medium-scale farmers. In this sense, rural culture must play a new role in recovering local and regional identities, which are in a sorry state due to the homogenisation and detachment from heritage imposed by globalisation.

 

On the threshold of the 21st century peri-urban farming is starting to be valued not just because of wide range of social, environmental and ethical factors, but especially because it is an vital to ensure urban food security.