Scientific agriculture KiK

1
Scientific agriculture (KiK(?))
Present Short term Medium term Long-term
changes
Competition between land uses
Appropriate re-arrangement of land use
Supervise and control agricultural land use
changes
Equitable and fair redistribution of water as a
function of the needs Re-use of water
Improvements continue
Lack of high quality water (salinisation)
New irrigation systems Re-use of water Improved
water quality
Intensive
Little investigation
Research scholarships and new funding
possibilities
Development and implementation of the programs
Scientific high-quality agriculture
Reduction of chemical fertilizers and use of
saline water
Land degradation
Development of ecological farming
Ecological
Abandonment of and in the agricultural sector
More financial aid and consolidation of
situation (new motivations)
Maintenance of infrastructure to improve
quality of life
Focused development programs
Lack of qualified labour
More education and training
Training and education continue
2
Sustainable agriculture (BiB(?))
Present Short term Medium term
Long-term changes
Agricultural sector is powerless and unorganised
New education. Improved dissemination of
existing knowledge
Professionalisation and improvement of the
power of the farmer
Farmers lack competitive power
Highly uncertain and insecure existence of
farmers
Improvement in the organisational structure and
decision making processes
Farmer reacts to changes
Improve position of farmer through subsidies
Agricultural activities more secure and certain
The (environmental) quality of agricultural
production is at stake (ecological products)
Information and stimulation of more collaboration
High level of cooperation leading to
sustainable agriculture
Union of cooperatives with improved coordination
Coordination between social organisations,
local administration and farmers
The farmer is only one link in the production
chain
Control over the distribution and production
chains
More financial aid and more coordination of
agricultural policies
Lack of organisation and financial aid for land
use planning
Improvement of the environmental quality
Specialisation of agricultural sector (local
products)
Land abandonment
Increase of economic profit
More sustainable land use planning
Increasing land degradation and soil erosion
3
Sustainable tourism (CoC)
Short term Short/Medium term Medium term
Long-term changes
Reorientation of planning
New regulations
Regional land use planning policies
Formulate policy measures to preserve the
Patrimony
New schemes to develop tourist industry
Study prospects and possibilities of tourism
towards a larger diversity
More stringent control
Municipal land use planning policies
Sustainable tourism and Sustainable,
sustained development
Improved small/medium infrastructure
New culture and new concepts of development
Environmental education for the community and
the policy makers
More (financial) aid to preserve the
agricultural landscape
Citizens participation and increased
responsibility
Promotion of high-quality local products and
ecological agriculture
Concrete measurements

• Cease the ongoing construction for the tourist
  industry near the coast
• Immediately stop granting more permits for
  construction of golf courses
• Develop strategies for preservation of
  traditional (agricultural) landscapes
• Promote the local and block the foreign that
  contaminates the local culture
• Develop a systematic system of control

4
Controlled water distribution (CoC)
Present Extension of the present Medium
term Long-term changes

• Lack of water
• High water losses in traditional
• irrigation systems
• Rapid increase of irrigated area
• Abandonment of certain
• traditional crops and general
• agricultural activity

• Conflicts and competition between
• Large agricultural enterprises
• and SME
• The tourist industry (residential
• area) and the agricultural sector

• Development strategies
• Desalinisation of water in wells/sea
• Water transport through the
• Tajo-Segura canal
• Water transport through the
• canal from the Ebro

• Powerful agriculture
• more water at lower prices
• Regional tourist development
• plan what type and where?
• Controlled distribution of
• water

• Low water quality
• Overexploitation of aquifers
• Saline of water in wells
• Drying up of wells

• Local public policies
• Special plans for development
• Water-saving policies
• Rules for and restrictions of
• urban water use
• Consciousness-raising and citizen
• participation

• Absence of water-saving
• policies
• Increased use of urban
• population
• Increasing population and use
• Allocation m3/ha/year

• Regional public policies
• Agreement on costs/benefits
• More hydrological studies
• Minimise impact on environment
• and landscape
• Clear priorities of water destination
• (based on real needs)
• Financing of more projects
• (gt75 from EU)
• Detailed step-by-step programs