2010 is the International Year of Biodiversity, as the United Nations intends to reaffirm the values \u200b\u200bof the International Convention on Biological Diversity and the Countdown 2010 (the commitment made in 2002 by some nations, including Italy , to significantly reduce biodiversity loss by 2010), and increase the awareness of governments and the general public on the importance of biodiversity for life on Earth.
In our country, as in the rest of the world, will be organized during the 2010 events, international conferences and seminars, to define strategies and actions to protect biodiversity.
FederBio, Italian Federation of Organic and Biodynamic Agriculture, focuses on the protection and enhancement of agricultural biodiversity and food, based on how much remembered by the Director General of Bioversity International, Emile Frison, at the opening in Berlin last 11 January: the organization of the events of 2010 must not be neglected the importance of agricultural biodiversity and the preservation of crop genetic diversity, precisely to ensure the health and food security of populations and to cope with climate change.
"Organic farming not only safeguards the genetic diversity of plants crop and animal farmers - says Paul Carnemolla, President of FederBio - but protection and increase the diversity of plants and animals in the ecosystem of agriculture, through techniques of production and business management using biodiversity as a real "factor of production ". For these reasons I'd like that 2010 was also known as the Year of Organic Agriculture for the protection of Biodiversity.
past quarter century in Europe following the expansion of intensive agricultural practices, there was a strong depletion in terms of variety and quantity of species present in the country. The growth of organic agriculture and appropriate information and education to consumers is fundamental: consumers who purchase organic products helps to counter the loss of biodiversity in the country, benefit the environment and natural landscape. "
farming methods used in organic farming, in fact, influisconopositivamente biodiversity in all stages of the food chain: the use of organic fertilizers and prohibiting the use of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers increases soil biodiversity and increases the concentration of microorganisms such as earthworms, beetles and spiders in the soil, the adoption of crop rotation, with an appropriate choice of varieties, increases biodiversity at the genetic level and specific, and finally, the choice of cultivating local varieties of plants and breeds of animals leads to maintain and protect biodiversity and the peculiarities of the different geographical areas.
Here are concrete examples, based on the data of the Royal Society - the most prestigious scientific organization in Great Britain - emerged from a long and challenging work of scientists who compared the wildlife on organic farms and conventional ones. The differences found are huge: in soil biological records up to twice those found in conventional plants, until 50 per cent more spiders, 60 per cent more birds and 75 per cent more bats.
unequivocally "... .. organic farming is associated with high levels of biodiversity," the report said.
Source: BioEcoGeo
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