The world has been changing, agriculture and rural areas too. They are not changing, they are metamorphosing. Change implies an evolutionary path while metamorphosis is an abrupt and sudden change. Accelerated. And that is happening driven by two milestones, covid19 and the emergence of the massive use of artificial intelligence that will continue to transform the way the world works.
Today, it must be said, rural is more than agriculture and also includes habitat, health, tourism, provision of environmental and economic goods and services to cities; nature, culture, traditions, food. But equally precariousness, invisibility, gap, informality and illicit economies.
Today rurality is not isolated or isolated. The urban and the rural are interconnected, they are interdependent through links, but public policy continues to imagine them as discontinuous and even contradictory spaces. The mistake is to conceive them in their design and implementation, separately, as two different shores and the worst, with a bias that tilts the balance of resources towards the urban, perpetuating and widening the socio-economic gap between the two.
In an absurd way, the urban was determined by a geographical point, coordinates that serve as a landmark, a limit, when on the contrary, rural urban links generate exchanges, interactions, connections, fabrics, networks, intertwinings, articulations that disappear. urban-rural borders.
That is the rurality of these times although public policy is from other times, the gone ones. The ones that no longer work.