Danger of Agrotoxic Products
Pesticides, (also referred to as chemical poison, agrotoxic products or agrochemicals) are chemical substances, organic or inorganic, or natural substances used to fight against pests or vegetables. They are used for the elimination of insects, mites, fungi, rodents, snails, worms, among others.
Protected Wild Areas
A Protected Wild Area is every portion of the national territory included within well defined limits, of natural or semi-natural, which is submitted to a management of its resources to attain objectives that may guarantee its conservation, defense and improvement of the environment and of the involved natural resources.
Equity of Gender
The gender is an historic and social construction referred to the man as well as to the woman, which determines the masculine and the feminine, puts the woman in the house and the man in the street, as places where they perform functions that are considered as inherent for each sex and establishes social relations among them, of power-man and subordination-woman.
Environmental Territorial Arrangement Plan (E.T.A.P.)
The Environmental and Territorial Ordering Plan is one of the planning instruments of a nation which allows a better administrative organization of the territory, because it places in the physical room (real and specific) the policies (social, economic, environmental, cultural and others) decided by the government.
Agricultural and Ecological Organic Production
Organic products are considered those natural products which were obtained without using chemical products for agricultural purposes in their crops. In order for a natural product to be deemed as organic, it does not have to present chemical remains. This can be achieved by applying systems of agricultural and ecological production (use of organic methods).
The Hydric Resources
An Hydric Resource is any portion of fresh water in the planet: streams, sources, swamps, underground waters, lakes, rainwater, drinking water and sewage. They are resources, since they can be used for any human activity. Every Hydric Resource is part of a basin or part of a water-bearing.
The truth about Transgenic
Transgenic or Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) are those live organisms which were artificially created by manipulating their genes. The techniques of genetic engineering consist in isolating segments of the D.N.A (the genetic material) of a living being (virus, bacterium, vegetable, animal and even human) to introduce them into the hereditary material of another living being.
