Allá en el rancho verde: hacendados del desierto de Sonora y del suroeste de los Estados Unidos están introduciendo técnicas para conservar el suelo y el agua, y a la vez mejorar los ecosistemas.

Américas (Spanish Edition) | March 1, 2005| | Copyright

Iván Aguirre Ibarra inclina su cuerpo y hunde las manos en la tierra que rodea sus pies. La tierra parece ondulada y produce una ligera sensación de humedad esta mañana de noviembre. A su alrededor abundan saguaros, chollas y senitas, árboles de mesquite, romerillos y otras plantas del desierto de Sonora. Aguirre se dirige a pie hasta la finca de un vecino y señala la tierra reseca y árida sin pasto entre las plantas y sin aspecto ondulado.

>, dice Aguirre, copropietario, junto con su esposa Martha Darancou, de la finca La Inmaculada, de 10.500 hectáreas, ...

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