Better understand the relationship of people to biodiversity and how to preserve it, perhaps the greatest question humanity today. " Putting this conclusion, the authors of the latest UN report on environment (GEO4), make another observation: the cultural diversity disappears along with biodiversity. Ethiopia is at the heart of the problem. Its population increased from 22 to more
70 million in 50 years, the cultivated areas are progressing and intensive agriculture is growing, while asserting the desire for industrialization.
Driven by the need hundreds of thousands of poor farmers will quite naturally to the more profitable choice.
In some areas now, rather than coffee, farmers prefer to plant qat, a psychoactive plant consumed in industrial quantities in the Horn of Africa. Then a bunch of qat is sold as 30 euros per kilo, rare varieties of coffee, high quality, traded at prices that ordinary robusta.

In this loss, some countries have found an answer: Geographical Indications (GIs). They involve precise specifications in terms of environmental standards and production methods used. Therefore, according to proponents of Home Gardens Project of Ethiopia, they value the product on the market in protecting local know-how. According to Delphine MarieVivian, Legal CIRAD, India has developed successfully to protect its textile industry, threatened by Chinese competition. GIs were sometimes allowed to repatriate the entire transformation process in the production area. As manufacturers of Parmesan did they get in Europe control the grating. So many examples to think for Africa at the time of the debate about his chances of industrialization in a globalized world.

Virginia Gomez