The European agriculture crosses at present an important crisis. This crisis is characterized by two big points:
- the problem of the environmental pollution (ground, water, air)
- and underestimates it agricultural which gets numerous regions, notably low mountain range.
In some years, the consequences of these drift brought to us to ask us of numerous questions: in the future, the Earth will still give us what people need for their physical existence? What do we really eat? … Behind these essential questions appears the question of responsibility, that it is about environment, about production, about quality of food or about social fabric. Even if the agriculture is only partially responsible for the situation where is the biosphere (as a result of the industrial and economic development), it is always quoted in the debate. The stakes and the consequences are such, as each today feels concerned.
To speak about responsibility supposes that there is an ethics and reasons for action. We blame the extensive agriculture for having too much gone away from the conditions of a durably stable and healthy work. Furthermore, constants difficulties met by the agricultural policy tend to prove us that the industrial methods are not adapted to the agriculture, a profession where we work with human beings.
But the idea of a durable, environment-friendly, satisfactory production on the quantitative and qualitative plan is new by no means. In 1924, Rudolf Steiner gave the foundations of what was going to become the bio-dynamic agriculture.
Even if the number of farms which work according to the methods of the bio-dynamic or biological agriculture remains still too weak, notably in France
, alternatives exist and show their ability.
The purposes of the bio-dynamic agriculture:
- to look after the ground
- to regenerate, to shape and to maintain the landscapes
- to supply to people a healthy food
- to develop the approach of the alive and to understand the role of the Man
- to open new social perspectives on farms as in the producing, consumer links (by including the storekeepers there)