Bio-metaethics viticulture proposed by the GiESCO

Abstract

Concerning sustainable Viticultures, the GiESCO notices the current confusion around the notions of:

• ‘integrated’ Viticulture which does not clearly set itself apart of classical so-called ‘reasoned’ Viticulture and involves series of certifications which are distinguishable with difficulty,
• ‘agro-ecological’ Viticulture which adds important elements of sustainability to ‘integrated’ Viticulture, without clarifying really the latter,
• ‘organic’ Viticulture which leans on some unbearable principles such as the opposition between chemical or natural products, with besides a frequent recourse to copper-products,
• ‘biodynamic Viticulture’ which recommends environment-friendly methods, but for very not scientifically verified.

Beyond their multiple technical aspects, none of those Viticultures involves a real guarantee or a full transparency. Consequently, in a spirit of scientific and technic consensus and respect for a certain morality and ethics, a meta-ethical approach is implemented. The GiESCO proposes a charter of sustainable Viticulture, with at first major meta-ethical principles which are able to raise the current confusion, and then, under such conditions, the resumption of the technical charter presented in 2015 at the GiESCO 19 in Montpellier – Pech Rouge.

The Viticulture called in a simplified way ‘BIO-MetaEthics’ is built at first on general principles which are after translated into technical decisions inside a charter.

Those principles are used in the approach presented by Giovanni Cargnello “BIO-MetaEthics 4.1”, with the notation method by an expert jury of the “Great Chain MetaEthics 4.1”.

The technical charter which is linked to is that one of the GiESCO in 2015, coordinated by Alain Carbonneau and Giovanni Cargnello.