Almeria has more sustainable agricultural model of the world.

THE STUDY THAT SUPPORTS IT, IT WILL BE PUBLISHED SOON BY THE CAJAMAR FOUNDATION.

The sustainability of the Almeria agricultural model, based on the intensive production of fruits and vegetables, has been treated in different studies and research projects, but addressing different points of view, or based on the partiality of what sustainability entails as a whole.Researchers belonging to the Department of Applied Economics of the University of Almería Emilio Galdeano, José Ángel Aznar and Juan Carlos Pérez, They have wanted to unite all the dots that demonstrate that the Almeria model is the example in sustainability, combining economic criteria, environmental and social.

This study will be the basis of a publication to be published by the Cajamar Foundation, as confirmed by the researchers themselves. In the future book, all the quantitative data that demonstrate the essence of the research will be analyzed more precisely.. In addition, highlights the singularity of the studies that try to show just the opposite of provincial agriculture.

The authors maintain that the detailed study of economic statistics, “indicate the maintenance of an endogenous local development that has had an impact, In addition, in other productive activities broadly; and what is most unique in the European context, with absence or almost zero impact of support programs or political subsidies, that only represent a 2% de la renta agraria y se reciben solo desde hace unos tres lustros”.

La dimensión ambiental muestra “una utilización eficiente de los recursos y el impacto en términos de huella ecológica, especialmente la hídrica, muy positivos. Like this, se incluyen aspectos como el efecto albedo de los invernaderos para la reducción del calentamiento global y el referente de prácticas integradas. Thus, el impacto ecológico resulta unas veinte veces inferior a la media agrícola nacional para determinados recursos”.

Los autores destacan de forma particular, el componente social, como uno de los ejes fundamentales, “al tratarse de explotaciones eminentemente familiares, who have contributed with their organizations and industries connected to the agricultural sector to an extensive social capital and an incomparable balance in the distribution of the income generated”, exemplified in research.

The researchers demonstrate in their study that the uniqueness of Almeria agriculture would not exist without a series of synergies that occur between the economic dimensions, environmental and social. The three components have complemented each other in the last five decades.