Opinion Vicent Martín Ronda: "The project of Dénia in the new look of the European Union"

The document “From the farm to the taula”, published by the European Commission in the coming weeks, which we will begin to discuss last week, proposes a strategy aimed at territorial agri-food systems to escape the crisis exacerbated by COVID-19. XNUMX. It is a proposal that follows, deepens and reinforces, if not more, the path marked out by the Dénia project&Marina Alta Tastinglife of the UNESCO Creative City.

Vegetables in the Mercat de Dénia

The strategy is linked to the Pacte Verd Europeu, which established the way to make Europe the first continent to be climate neutral in 2050. It defines a new line of sustainable and inclusive growth to boost the economy, improve health and the quality of life of the people, take care of nature and do not leave any arrere.

“From farm to farm” finally represents the EU's postulat, in the form of normative and political proposals, which made it possible to be a point of interest in a way of understanding the economy and the quality of life of the European citizens. d'ara endavant. The Mateix report defines "com just transition", especially after the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic crisis. Disortadament has to be, the COVID qui accelerarà aquest procés.

This "transition" to sustainable food systems is also defined in the document as an economic opportunity. The citizens are evolving and promoting significant significance in the food market, obrint expectations for farmers, fishermen, aquaculturists, transforming companies and the distribution chain and the set of food services. Among the most outstanding fets is the power of assenyalar:

• That it produced it, transported it, distributed it, commercialized it and consumed food, had a neutral or positive environmental impact.
• Guarantee food safety, nutrition and public health, access to foodstuffs who are complicit in high levels of innocuity, quality, plant health and animal health.
• Preserving the affordability of foodstuffs, at the same time that it generates a fairer economic performance in the supply chain, so that the most sustainable foodstuffs also follow, in the last instance, the most affordable ones.
• Recovering the technological, digital solutions based on nature and on the Spanish, but to obtain millors results climatic and environmental and augment the resilience against the climatic canvi.
• Reduce and optimize the use of inputs (for example, pesticides and fertilizers).
• Guarantee an easier accés to the mercat per a traditional varietats and locally adapted.
• Promote ecological agriculture. It will present a pla d'acció on organic agriculture. Això will help the Member States to stimulate the offer with the demand for organic products. That, almenys, 25% of the agricultural lands of the EU will be used in ecological agriculture from 2030.
• The nous “ecological règims” will offer an important font of financing to promote sustainable practices, such as precise agriculture, ecological agriculture, carboni capture in agricultural and agricultural forestry. The Member States and the Commission make sure that the strategic plans provide adequate resources and apply those regimes. The Commission will donate support to the introduction of a minimum compartmental pressupost for ecological régimes.
• Encourage sustainable practices of food transformation, wholesale and retail trade, hospitality and food service.
• The food industry and the retail sector have to show the cam augmentant the availability i
  assequibilitat d'opcions alimentaires healthy and sustainable in order to reduce the overall environmental impact of the food system.
• Promote sustainable consumption of food and facilitate the transition to healthy and sustainable diets.
• To study methods to harmonize the ecological declarations and to create a sustainable brand of ethics that supplies, in synergy with relevant initiatives, the nutritional, climatic, environmental and social aspects of food products. Això will help the fet that cities, regions and public authorities contribute by mitigating the provision of sustainable foods.
• Promote the health of the sun and the foodstuffs for the purpose of developing solutions to restore the health of the sun and the functions of the aquatics.
• Fast broadband internet in rural areas to advise the 100% target for access by 2025.
• Incorporate serveis d'assessorament, intercanvi de dades i coneixements, i capacitats. The coneixements i l'assessorament are fundamentals but all the agents of the food system strive to become sustainable.
• Mitjançant serveis d'assessorament a mesura, will provide information and guidance to farmers and will link the experience of research with the projects of research and the European Association for Innovation. Això will enhance the sustainability of the participating farmers, així with the most income.
• Encourage investment in EU nous projectes mitjançant garanties pressupostàries in the InvestEU Fund or EU taxonomy.

This strategy means an important country for the determined orientation of economic models that support the well-being of people (economy, health, quality of life) with that of ecosystems, and is traditional in legislative proposals, drafting of models, codis and altres eines administratives per planning, evaluating and financing actions. This is a fet clau to be able to donate form to that model that turned the Pacte Verd Europeu into an opportunity to reconcile our food system with the needs of the planet and to respond positively to the aspirations of the Europeans in relation to healthy eating. , equitable and respectful with the environment.

The European Commission has shown the following letters to mark the camí, per prendre the world leader in matters of sustainable food systems, incorporating all sectors and territories, aware that they may be avant-garde for all ells.

Why not think about the agri-food sector as a nova industry transformer of the social canvi, in a rational way and with a commitment to the territory? A nova semblant economy that will represent the irruption of tourism there pels anys seixanta del segle passat. The agro-gastronomic sector will go from being a complement to the tourist offer to diversifying the economy of the region. Some of them are fent.

A Dénia and the Marina Alta tenim l'opportunitat d'avançar-nos, portem a camí Recorregut in the gastronomic sector and is where the conditions per fer-ho. If the agri-food systems are located in the center of development and sustainability, the Marina Alta has a historical position to be a pioneer. This must be a choral bar, viewed and executed in conjunction, looking for the common spaces and the private benefits.

Bodies with Unesco and the European Commission have a special interest in generating pilot experiences to determine the ability to replicate projects in high cities or territories, to validate their effectiveness and to be able to create reference models. The Marina Alta, per location, surface and characteristics, is the best territorial unit for being a model.