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The urban world with a completely new mentality and approach sets the standard of living and behaviour. Country folk took their rural outlook with them when they moved to work in factories in the past. Nowadays, with a complete reversal of the pendulum, the city people returning to the countryside or who move there for the first time are doing so with an urban outlook on life. And if that were not enough, our own authorities are legislating on the basis of a cookie-cutter criterion which reflect that approach. It may be more difficult for such a developed and industrialised society as our to understand that the change process has not only spread to much of the territory, but that it has also profoundly changed the mentality of people living in rural areas. That has been called “modernisation”. Regardless of how it is called, it has led to far-reaching transformation, but there is no denying that many changes have been positive, particularly regarding core services, such as running water and electricity, road and access to communications, but there has been an important loss of values that characterised rural areas.
Debemos tener presente que la agricultura bien entendida es un modo de estar en el mundo profundamente ligado a la tierra y a la vida y que no es casual que se emplee este mismo verbo tanto para cultivar la tierra como para cultivarse uno mismo.