3 Mitos Que Você Sempre Ouviu Sobre a Agroecologia - Mas ninguém teve coragem de negar.

3 myths about agro-ecology you've always heard, but nobody had the courage to deny. Myth # 1: organic food is more expensive. Not at all! Organic food appears to be more expensive because the supermarkets, where we usually buy it, charge up to 4 times as much as farmer’s markets. (up to 463% more) Myth # 2: Agro-ecological production is less productive than conventional agriculture. Agro-ecology is at least as productive as conventional agriculture. And there’s an extra advantage: agro-ecological production enriches the soil and so it remains productive indefinitely. Pesticides and chemical fertilizers slowly weaken the soil and contaminate the water. Myth # 3: agro-ecology means “returning to the stone-age” Actually, agro-ecological production is always adapting in light of new knowledge and technologies. While conventional agriculture always follows the same recipe, agro-ecology uses many different solutions. An encyclopaedia of knowledge is spread amongst communities. Globally, we already ruin over 5 million hectares of soil each year. An area bigger than the State of Rio de Janeiro. 24% of our planet’s land is less productive than it used to be. Because of bad use of the soil. And there’s more: around the world, we use as much as 4.5 billion litters of pesticides. And Brazil more than anyone else. (1/5 of the pesticides use. 850 million litters in 2011) We want an agriculture that can feed the world. Forever! How about you? How do you want your agriculture? Subtitles by the Amara.org community