PDF (Español)
FLIP
HTML (Español (España))
Authors
Abstract
Since humans became conscious of their actions they have generated relationships of various kinds with land and its inhabitants. With the emergence of agriculture the land, being a free good available for all living creatures, became appropiated by humans to satisfy their needs. The land acquired a utilitarian value to produce food and raw materials, and generate income and political power. However, for farmers and indigenous people land also has had and it still has an affective and sacred value. In this logic, agriculture constitutes a bond of human beings with the land, which embraces an ethical imperative: land care while it is just one other subject of the ethical community. In this order of ideas, this article discusses land care as an ethical imperative of agriculture. To do this, visions of preservationists with technicalscientific views of soil conservation are analyzed and discussed.
Keywords:
References
Benites, R. J. (1996). Erosion-induced loss in soil productivity: causes and solutions. Second workshop held at the Centre for Research on small farmers, Brazil.
Blank, D. (2008). A Fresh look at life below the surface. In: T.G. Goddard, Zoebisch, M., Gan, Y., ellis, W., Watson, A. Sombatpanit, S. 2008. No-till farming systems. World Association of Soil and Water Conservation, Special Bulletin No. 3. Bangkok, Thailand.
Blum, W. (2010). Driving forces of soil formation - A global approach. 16º Congreso de la Organización Internacional de conservación de Suelo, ISCO-2010. Proceeding contribution in extenso. Santiago de Chile 08-12 de noviembre de 2010. 529 p: 508-511.
Brookfield, H. Stocking, M. (1999). Agrodiversity: definition, description and design. Global Environmental Change 9 (2): 77-80.
Carta del Jefe Seattle al presidente de los Estados Unidos. (1855). Recuperado de http://www.ciudadseva.com/textos/otros/carta_del_jefe_seattle_al_presidente_de_los_estados_unidos.htm.
Columella, M. (1998). De los trabajos del campo. España: Siglo XXI.
Comisión Mundial de Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo (1988): Informe Nuestro Futuro Común, Alianza Editorial, Madrid.
Dobson, A. (2010). Ciudadanía y medio ambiente. España: Editorial Proteus.
Dumanski, J. et al. 2006. The paradigm of conservation agriculture. Proceeding World Association of Soil and Water Conservation, p: 58-64.
Emerson, R. W. (2000). Naturaleza. Bogotá: Editorial Norma.
Heidegger, M. (2003). Filosofía, ciencia y técnica. Santiago de Chile: Ed. Universitaria.
Jenny, H. (1984). My friend, the soil. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 39(3), 158-161.
Jonas, H. (2004). El principio de responsabilidad. Ensayo de una ética para la civilización tecnológica. España: Ed. Herder.
Leopold, A. (2000). Una ética de la tierra. Madrid: Ed. La Catarata.
Miller, K. R. (1990). Hacia la sostenibilidad de la conservación y el desarrollo. En Memorias del simposio internacional de Ecobios Colombia 88. El desarrollo sostenible; estrategias, políticas y acciones. Bogotá.
Riechmann, J. (2000). Introducción: Aldo Leopold, los orígenes del ecologismo estadounidense y la ética de la Tierra. En Una ética de la tierra. Madrid: La Catarata.
Roose, E. (1996). Land husbandry. Components and strategy. Roma: FAO.
Serres, M. (1991). El contrato natural. España: Ed. Pre-textos.
Shaxson, T. F. (1994). Introducción al concepto moderno de manejo integrado y conservación de suelos. En Memorias del taller sobre planificación participativa de conservación de suelos y aguas. FAO. Proyecto Regional GCP/RLA/107/JON, Chile.
Shaxson, T.F. and Barber, R. (2003). Optimizing soil moisture for plant production. Soils Bulletin 79, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy.
Shaxson, F. y Douglas M. (2004). Land husbandry. En Lal, R. (Ed.). Encyclopedia Soil Science (pp. 971-977). Second Edition. Vo II. CRC Press.
Downloads
