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TOBASURA ACUNA, Isaías  y  OBANDO MONCAYO, Franco H. THE IMPERATIVE OF AGRICULTURE TODAY: LAND CARE. Luna Azul [online]. 2015, n.41, pp.385-396. ISSN 1909-2474.  https://doi.org/10.17151/luaz.2015.41.21.

Since humans became conscious of their actions they have generated relationships of various kinds with land and its inhabitants. With the emergence of agriculture the land, being a free good available for all living creatures, became appropiated by humans to satisfy their needs. The land acquired a utilitarian value to produce food and raw materials, and generate income and political power. However, for farmers and indigenous people land also has had and it still has an affective and sacred value. In this logic, agriculture constitutes a bond of human beings with the land, which embraces an ethical imperative: land care while it is just one other subject of the ethical community. In this order of ideas, this article discusses land care as an ethical imperative of agriculture. To do this, visions of preservationists with technical-scientific views of soil conservation are analyzed and discussed.

Palabras clave : Land care; conservation agriculture; soil conservation; land ethics.

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