Editorial photo #6643860 Human Interest

World Earth Day 2021

Workers work in a greenhouse to harvest courgettes that will be exported to Italy and abroad, in Molfetta on April 21, 2021. Today is World Earth Day. Name of our planet, and primary asset for human life, for agriculture and beyond. With a clear theme: “Restore Our Earth”: “Let's restore our Earth”, to underline the need to preserve the threatened environmental balances and to restore the natural beauty of a global ecosystem on which all life on the planet depends. Agriculture has a very clear commitment: on the one hand, to continue the path already developed in recent decades on sustainability with the support of technological innovations (precision agriculture, efficiency of production processes, circular economy) which has already led to a reduction in '' use of pesticides and fertilizers of chemical origin (respectively -21% and -52%, on 2008, source Istat), as well as precious natural resources such as water. The agricultural sector is also achieving excellent results with regard to emissions into the atmosphere. In fact, according to the latest ISPRA report, from 1990 to 2019 agriculture reduced ammonia emissions by about 25%, greenhouse gas emissions (which make up 7% of national emissions) by 17%, while those of PM10 30%. (Photo by Davide Pischettola/NurPhoto)