The family vegetable garden, a historic pillar of household savings in Galicia, is fading at an alarming rate. According to the IGE, households practicing self-cultivation have gone from 45.1% in 2007 to 25.1% in 2024, a plunge that means the loss of this tool in more than 173,000 families. This phenomenon, more pronounced on the coast, is not just a cultural change, but a direct economic impact on the financial resilience capacity of households, especially in an inflationary context.
3D Modeling of an Economic and Social Setback 📉
To understand the magnitude, we propose an interactive 3D visualization. A map of Galicia would show, through decreasing bars or volumes, the drop in households with vegetable gardens by province between 2007 and 2024. A second model would quantify the lost savings: representing the more than 100 euros monthly per household as a volume (for example, vegetable crates) that fades away. Finally, applying inflation and trend data, a predictive 3D scenario can be generated that projects this accumulated economic loss into the future, offering a spatial and tangible perspective on the cost of the decline.
More than data, resilience is lost 🛡️
This 3D modeling goes beyond statistics to reveal an erosion of family autonomy. The vegetable garden was not just an accounting saving, but an economic buffer and a bond with the territory. Its accelerated disappearance, visualizable in its true spatial and temporal scale, raises questions about the vulnerability of a new consumption model, totally dependent on the market, in an uncertain economic scenario. 3D technology helps us see what we are leaving behind.
How can 3D models and spatial data visualization help quantify and communicate the economic impact of the disappearance of the Galician family vegetable garden? 🧐
(P.S.: simulating economic scenarios is like betting on the lottery: the house always wins)