Abstract. In the conception and realization of this study we started from the global agri-food crisis with its main features (demographic explosion, hunger and loss of important areas of agricultural lands).

    By comparing the current agri-food condition of Romania, I have come to the conclusion that the involution of the agriculture of our country has specific characteristics (decrease in the number of Romanian population, inexistence of the national scourge of hunger, leaving areas of agricultural land out of the economic circuit, the net import of agrifood products from the member states of European Union).

    The natural conclusion which imposed on the basis of the comparison shown was the need for a national, coherent and urgent strategy of interruption of the involution of Romania’s agriculture.

    In the final part I limited myself to the analysis of two elements of this strategy: the changing of the state of mind of Romanian peasantry, a positive attitude to work and the repair of the rupture between the attribute of the right of disposal of lands and the attribute of the right of use of the lands with economic, social and ecologic efficiency.

Keywords: demographic explosion/implosion; fatalistic preeminence (state of mind); agri-food crisis; agricultural economy/ rural economy; economic decentralization/ decision-making subsidiarity.