Zbornik Janković, Vol. VII No. 8-9, 2024.
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https://doi.org/10.47325/zj.7.8-9.13
CROATIAN TUSCANY: A UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE OF AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT BY JOSIP JURAJ STROSSMAYER, BISHOP OF ĐAKOVO-SRIJEM
Ferdo Bašić
orcid.org/0000-0001-8474-4047
; Hrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti
Sažetak
The flood of new terms on sustainable development with pretensions to evergreen use shows the laudable imagination of the authors, but many of them are actually deja vu (already seen). A vision beyond time are the words Croatia Toscana of the Đakovo bishop-founder of Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, with which he describes Croatia’s place in the vision of the Austro-Slavic federation, which was shattered in the assassination of the visionary of the Serbian world in Sarajevo. With a time gap of about a century and a half, today we see those words as an announcement of the sustainable development of post-industrial society at the peak of the Anthropocene. The starting point of the vision is the physiocratic thought of the French economist. The paper describes the historical development of agriculture in Croatian areas from the beginning of sedentary life in the Neolithic (Vinkovci, Vučedol), through the arrival of Croats to the Pannonian area and Ancient Rome, to the current global rearrangements, which have affected the granaries of Europe and the world. The work focuses on the syntagm of the spiritual leader of the Croats of his time, the Đakovo-Srijem bishop Josip Juraj Strossmayer’s Croatia Toscana, with which he depicts Croatia’s place in the Austro-Slavic federation that was never created, and with good intentions, designed in the spirit of that time. If academician Krleža had not criticized the bard of left-wing political affiliations painted in October with his sarcastic reference to that phrase, it would have gone unnoticed. We want to point out the genius of the Founder of HAZU towards agriculture, forestry and the hard worker on the arable land (see below the title!) this phrase is ahead of the time and a timeless vision of sustainable development uttered far before the Anthropocene and its spectacular changes! The modernity of the phrase is confirmed by a series of current events on the geopolitical atlas of the world confirming self-sufficiency in food production, in accordance with the apparently marginalized recommendation of the Rome Declaration of the World Food Summit (Rome 1996). It is not about closing the economy, but about the fact that the war conflicts (Ukraine/Levant) reveal the vulnerability of the land, sea and air delivery routes of the world exchange of goods, and fossil energy sources have become an (under) equally insecure and unstable support. Because of this and a number of reasons that will be discussed, it is likely that (economically, environmentally, socially) sustainable development in the post-industrial era of the Anthropocene will find support in the „global return to the roots“, which means „on photosynthesis-based economic branches“, in the first place agriculture, with which culture began. Sustainable intensification of Croatian agriculture, as a concept for which we advocate, is a contribution to the vision of the Founder of HAZU and an indisputable path in the direction of Croatian Tuscany. The concept is in agreement with the determination and measures of the EU aimed at agriculture and rural development.
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Hrčak ID:
320323
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Datum izdavanja:
29.8.2024.
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