ERFP Principle
(purify, regenerate, fertilize, produce)
The symbiotic economy develops from territories and their own resources: they produce their own energy, a large part
from their diet, they use
ecosystems to purify, regenerate, fertilize and produce new molecules and materials, producing more than conventional techniques while enriching the soils
and biodiversity.
The symbiotic economy follows these main principles:
PURIFY
By using healthy soils without pesticides or herbicides, which will protect the water of the water table, rivers and the sea; by opting instead for permaculture, agro-ecology and agroforestry; by favouring ground cover plants to avoid herbicides and belonging to the legume family preferably because they host in their roots rhizobacteria which enrich the soil with nitrogen.
This also avoids chemical fertilizers, which lose 15% of their nitrogen (and end up in the sea), compared to only 2% with rhizobacteria, thus purifying the banks of polluting green algae and sargassum.
RÉGÉNÉRER
From nitrogen-fixing bacteria, to mycorrhizae (fungi that distribute soil nutrients), to fertilizing earthworms, to pollinating and regulating insects, to the abundance of fruit for
to feed and to provide seeds for sowing and replanting.
An entire ecosystem comes to life in this large food web while simultaneously regulating itself.
FERTILIZE
One person's waste is another's food, but this requires a lot of observation and understanding of how things work.
this system.
PRODUCE
Symbiotic economics increases productivity and provides a positive view of the human species and its role in the biosphere when practiced.
The Phytobôkaz laboratory has chosen to rely on this economy to ensure the sustainability of its development and to strive for CIRCULAR growth rather than VERTICAL growth or decline, which until now has been the preferred way to succeed.
Indeed, the association of Galba with other oilseed plants, used by the laboratory, thus ensures other trophic networks for the fauna: nectar from calabash flowers and pericarp of Galba fruits for bats and pollen from coconut, avocado and Galba trees for bees.
Thus, we have observed a direct impact on the regeneration of animal biodiversity, notably through an increase in the populations of fruit and nectar-feeding bats, which are endemic and protected species on the archipelago. This increase in animal populations is itself reflected in an increase in the quantity of Galbas nuts harvested from one year to the next, but also in the colonization of the ecosystem created by new species of birds, anoles (small lizards), and insects (pollinators, etc.).
We also had an impact on plant biodiversity and the landscape in our indigo plot thanks to the reforestation visible on the plot before Hurricane Maria passed through.
Another image of Caribbean agriculture is being built, cleaner, more nuanced and blending into the already lush landscape of the Guadeloupean forest which is becoming an opportunity for France and not a burden, because 80% of France's biodiversity is in its overseas territories.