# Prepare today’s children for an uncertain environmental future
Substantive changes in the way we produce food have always been and will be associated with critical social changes. It was with this idea in mind that Felipe and I e prepare today’s children for an uncertain environmental future
mbraced the work with the children of all public schools in a great small town in the countryside of Portugal. Small because Mertola holds one of the lowest population densities in the country. And great not only because the municipality’s territory is huge, but also because here we found people and institutions willing to take on an important responsibility: to **prepare today’s children for an uncertain environmental future**.
Soil and water are already daily limitations. This reality requires a whole new level of debate around which agriculture techniques we should and shouldn’t embrace.
Cicero said in ancient Rome that a society that does not **value its farmers** is a society doomed to failure.
**Regeneration by use** is only possible when based on deep ecological knowledge coupled with techniques that are able to synchronize food production to ecosystem’s successional dynamics.
The children learn how to face and, above all, to revert the environmental impacts of our society. This is an opportunity for education to develop sustainable human communities.
We thank the people within the institutions who made this work possible. It is only with partnerships driven by a common good that it becomes possible to dream and make real the systemic changes that we so badly need.