Tridge summary
The Canary Islands, particularly La Palma, are facing a significant challenge due to a volcanic eruption that has displaced over 7,000 people and impacted approximately 900 hectares. This ultra-peripheral island, which relies heavily on primary production for nearly half of its GDP, is trying to adapt to these changes. The article discusses the impact on agriculture, livestock, and fishing, highlighting the unique challenges these sectors face. Despite the crisis, efforts are being made to secure the future of agricultural cultivation, with desalination plants being installed. There is also debate about the potential loss of agricultural land and the proposal to forego recovery of the affected territory in favor of environmental preservation. The situation in La Palma has drawn attention both locally and globally, reflecting the complex interplay of natural disaster, economic dependence, and environmental concerns.
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Original content
The Canary Islands have a total area of 7,447 km2 of territory of volcanic origin, and a population of about 2,200,000 people. The island of La Palma, contributes to the Canarian autonomous community about 708 km2, and, just over 80,000 inhabitants, of which, right now, there are more than 7,000 evicted people, being affected for the moment an area of about 900 hectares . To this, we must add so many other people, who, not living in the Aridane Valley, did have their jobs in that area and now they have been left without them. Primary production generates almost half of the Gross Domestic Product of the island of La Palma, a circumstance more than meritorious in an ultra-peripheral island. Focusing on the rural world, the controversy generated by the future of the Aridane Valley has completely puzzled people who make a living from agriculture, livestock, and fishing, who contemplate in amazement how a natural phenomenon, which seems daunting to us, it is taking away their ...
Source: UPA
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