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International Seminar on Biodiversity and Sustainable Development in the Mekong River Basin 8

cases often lead to surprisingly intense conflicts. For solutions to emerge, key actors from multiple
levels must see sufficient reasons to engage in collaborative problem solving (Brown et al., 2015).

Results and discussion

Study case: Food without chemicals – Sustainable wines.
How many people chose to eat ~clean~ food? How can we increase the consumption of
nonchemical food? How can we promote the sustainable wine as an aliment with health benefits?
The integrity of wine is guarantee by international regulation. For organic wines production
synthetic fertilizers, pesticides or weed killers are not accepted. In organic viticulture, the soil
fertility it is maintain by using organic, natural fertilizers, cover crops and 100% mechanical
tillage. Organic viticulture need particular attention to protecting the natural balance of the
vineyard and the surrounding environment while producing grapes. For this reason, balancing
biodiversity with the demands of intensive monoculture it is very pressing among the world’s
vineyards. Maintaining biodiversity is essential to the health of the plant during its growth cycle.
Biodiversity loss is a result of climate change, agriculture, expansion of urban development and
degradation such as spread of invasive alien plant species, inappropriate fire management and
other negative land management practices.

The main goal is to maintain vine balance that optimizes quality fruit production and wine
health. For that, is crucial the collaboration between wine industries collaborates, conservation
partners and funders, and farmers, to conserve natural areas of outstanding biodiversity value and
to promote sustainable agricultural practices in the wine industry.

Natural wine.
The term of “natural wine” is used everywhere. It os good to know, a ‘true’ natural wine is
considered one produced using organic (or biodynamic) principles with a minimum of
technological intervention. Since 1991 there have been uniform Europe-wide regulations for
organically grown grapes (Regulation (EEc) no 2092/91), which regulate matters including the use
of plant protection substances as well as fertilizers and establish the necessary control mechanisms.
Since the introduction of these regulations, quality controls, which used to be conduct internally
by the various associations, have become government regulated.

Government-accredited control authorities (certification bodies)
conduct independent quality audits and can certify the growers.
Additionally, the associations also certify their own members: in
effect a “controlled quality control” which results in very high
standards (EU Rules for organic wine production-iFoam EU
group).

A lot of wine producer had begun to recognize that high organoleptic quality can be
achieved by using organic grape-growing methods and have begun to convert their operations.
Matching the grape variety to its environment forms one of the pillars of the concept of terroir.
The solution is implementing the best management practices: monitoring soil characteristics and
water quality, erosion potential, spacing, proper rootstock, potential pest problems, irrigation, and
frost protection. Wines organoleptic quality can be increase by using organic grape-growing

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