MANAGEMENT OF HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONS IN GLOBAL AGRICULTURE

Abstract

Globalization offers special opportunities to agriculture, liked both to production marketing, finding new markets, accessing new technologies, and to reduction of production costs. From the agriculture perspective, globalization enforces a new relationship between men and nature, the environment, the new ethical dimension of the management of human relations to the environment and the orientation towards an ecological agriculture. Another dimension of globalization in agriculture is the complex issue of ensuring food security, representing a priority also established by the rural development program of the European Union. The close relation between agriculture and environment is reflected even more nowadays, at the threshold of the third millennium, a millennium that brought more liberty and more options for mankind, but also the danger that human activity would deteriorate the environment and the whole planet. Beginning with the great challenges that face the humankind nowadays, in the threshold of the third millennium, the necessity of forming a new ethics for the management of human- environment relations, the relations of humans with the nature, determined by three basic principles.