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Natural agriculture, permaculture, agroecology, agroforestry ... / Agriculture naturelle, permaculture, agroécologie, agroforesterie...

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Agriculture (from the Latin agricultura, composed from ager, field and anger, to cultivate) is a process by which humans arrange their ecosystems to meet the primary and other food needs of their societies.  Formerly, the peasants respected the land, maintained it by cherishing it, thanks to ancestral methods, they did not ask nature more than what they needed, producing on the smallest possible surface ...  Then, the mechanization methods made it possible to professionalize the practices and the practitioners becoming farmers, agrochemical technicians, who for the sake of profitability have invested considerably in large areas of land, cultivating the same species for kilometers,  degrading the soils with their plow, eliminating nature, favoring invasive species, so they decided to use chemicals to exterminate this vermin, pesticides ... then the earth became sterile, so the chemists decided to provide the  bricks of life with chemical fertilizers of course.  As the land is no longer