The role of organic farming for food security: local nexus with a global view

A convergence of factors has made food security one of the most important global issues. It has been the core concept of the Milan Expo 2015, whose title, Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life, embodied the challenge to provide the world’s growing population with a sustainable, secure supply of safe, nutritious, and affordable high-quality food using less land with lower inputs. Meeting the food security agenda using current agricultural production techniques cannot be achieved without serious degradation to the environment, including soil degradation, loss of biodiversity and climate change. Organic farming is seen as a solution to the challenge of sustainable food production, as it provides more nutritious food, with less or no pesticide residues and lower use of inputs. A limit of organic farming is its restricted capability of producing food compared to conventional agriculture, thus being an inefficient approach to food production and to food security. The authors maintain, on the basis of a scientific literature review, that organic soils tend to retain the physical, chemical and biological properties over the long term, while maintaining stable levels of productivity and thereby ensuring long-term food production and safety. Furthermore, the productivity gap of organic crops may be worked out by further investment in research and in particular into diversification techniques. Moreover, strong scientific evidence indicates that organic agricultural systems deliver greater ecosystem services and social benefits.

Informe laboratorio del plan exportador para 30 empresas plan exportador Colombian Ostrich

El siguiente plan exportador consta de cinco partes esenciales las cuales son el análisis del potencial exportador donde se analiza toda la empresa desde la parte administrativa, una segunda parte es la inteligencia de mercados, en la cual se hizo una preselección de mercados dando como resultado a Estados Unidos, Canadá y México como los países objetivo, alterno y contingente respectivamente; una tercera parte que consta de la descripción general del producto a exportar que son las bandejas de madera enchapadas en cascara de huevo de avestruz, una cuarta donde se especifican los objetivos de Colombian Ostrich y una última parte en la que se realizaron unas estrategias dirigidas al producto, al precio, al canal y a la promoción; la realización de este plan exportador duró 5 meses, en los cuales se recibieron consultoría donde se recibieron las bases para poderlo llevar a cabo.

The effect of the occupational mortality over the economy. Magdalena’s Fevers and tobacco farming in Colombia in XIX century

It is aimed at reviewing the effect reflected in the quality and quantity of tobacco exportation with the appearance of Magdalena Fevers in the Ambalema zone (Colombia), between 1856 and 1870. The research explores the effect of labor over health and the effect of health over labor in this stage of the Colombian export development. By formulating an econometric model it is possible to establish whether the epidemic outbreaks of fevers were a relevant factor in explaining the behavior of tobacco exports from Ambalema to the outside. The analysis of the empirical data shows that it is possible that a fall on the exports in about 72,000 tobacco sacks per year caused by the fevers in the studied region, as well as a negative effect of the disease on the tobacco prices.