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Food and agriculture production systems worldwide are facing unprecedented challenges from an increasing demand for food for a growing population, rising hunger and malnutrition, adverse climate change effects, overexploitation of natural resources, loss of biodiversity, and food loss and waste. These challenges can undermine the world’s capacity to meet its food needs. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), more than 800 million people are undernourished while 2 billion are micronutrient deficient and 2 billion more people overweight or obese. At the same time, food production, transportation, processing and waste are putting unsustainable strain on environmental resources.
To be sustainable, agriculture must meet the needs of present and future generations, while ensuring profitability, environmental health, and social and economic equity. Greening the agricultural sector involves addressing poverty as well as meeting the nutritional needs of a growing global population while also minimizing the environmental degradation associated with certain agricultural practices.
Achieving these goals requires a transformation of the agriculture sector, leveraging market-based approaches through a coordinated effort by all stakeholders, including farmers, government, civil society and the private sector.
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The Coupled Effects of Irrigation Scheduling and Nitrogen Fertilization Mode on Growth, Yield and Water Use Efficiency in Drip-Irrigated Winter Wheat
Created a Post in Agriculture, Industry and Entrepreneurship
Promoting sustainable oil palm production by independent smallholders in Indonesia: Perspectives from non-state actors
Created a Post in Agriculture, Climate Change, Natural Capital
In three new reports, FAO and The Nature Conservancy share the potential of Nature-based Solutions in agriculture to deliver nutrition for people worldwide while restoring nature and the climate
Short Food Supply Chains for Promoting Local Food on Local Markets
Food governance in Territorial Short Food Supply Chains: Different narratives and strategies from Colombia and Spain
Falling short of being the ‘good farmer’: Losses of social and cultural capital incurred through environmental mismanagement, and the long-term impacts agri-environment scheme participation
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Created a Post in Agriculture, Climate Change
Smallholder farms present the need and opportunity to innovate future-proof solutions that are tested to function in complex conditions, as they face daily the effects of climate change, resource and environmental limitations, and economic and social disruption. How are smallholder farms the ideal proving ground for innovative future technologies?
Created a Post in Agriculture, Green Recovery from COVID-19, Energy
A new WRI blog highlights Nigeria's Sustainable COVID-19 Recovery -- In addition to removing fossil fuel subsidies, the government's $5.9 billion (N23 trillion, or 1% of GDP) Economic Sustainability Plan (https://budgetoffice.gov.ng/index.php/nigeria-economic-sustainability-p…) invests in clean energy, agriculture, and infrastructure, including: * US$619 million to the Solar Homes Systems Project, which is anticipated to cover about 5 million households, along with providing monetary incentives for private solar installers; * A National MSME Survival Fund, of which 60% is reserved for women entrepreneurs; * An agricultural program to significantly increase the acreage under cultivation, which has the potential to incorporate climate-smart strategies and practices such as drought-resistant crops and sustainable land and water management
G20 International Workshop on Water, Energy, Food Nexus