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06/13/2012
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SAO PAULO - Representatives of governments and civil society from various countries start to discuss today (13) paths that should be adopted to meet a growing population in the world, without the production of more food and greater demand for water and energy, for example, mean more damage to the environment, main source of these resources.
Throughout the Rio +20, which starts today and runs until 22 in Rio de Janeiro, Heads of State and Government, private sector representatives and social organizations will try to resolve issues such as produce more, using more renewable energy, less natural resources and generating less waste. This production is a goal that the Brazilian government expects to see formalized by more than 120 countries that have confirmed their presence at the conference.
The equation ends up bumping into other strategies advocated by Brazil, such as sustainable consumption, which alerts people to their duty in constructing this model of development more aware. The hope is to show that not only governments and businesses who have responsibility for the environmental crisis, which may represent losses to development if not adopted changes in attitude and behavior.
Brazil, for example, is one of the largest food producers in the world. It is believed that the establishment of standards for sustainable agriculture, with the use of organic fertilizers and biological control, it could, for example, soil and preserving natural resources.
The Brazilian government wants to show that this practice, which could assimilate technologies such as nitrogen fixation, as developed by institutions such as the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), may also be associated with the reforestation of some areas in rural properties and protection water resources. This sum, according to experts, results in better conditions on the properties, which allow nature to continue offering good conditions for agricultural output.
Source: The Day on Line
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