César Marcos Cabañas is a freelance journalist and has been writing about rural life for twenty years. Farmers, crops and livestock,as well as smart farms and foodtech are some of the topics he covers for news stories and podcast reports. He also works as press and media relations director of the Rural Network for Spain (RRN).
A chef and a team of scientists are the first to have domesticated the plant Zostera marina with the intention of using it for food products because of its high nutritional benefits. The growth of this plant is associated with great subaqueous biodiversity and a decrease in ocean acidification.
Heliotropic sunflowers (which follow the sun’s movements) are resilient to scorching summer weather. And high yielding varieties which are rich in oleic acid are the prime material in healthy and sustainable vegetable oils.
The countryside is a space to live and to work. And thus often an arena of conflicts of how to use that space. A challenge that needs to be tackled by farmers themselves.