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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.
Created a Post in Agriculture
Food security and nutrition policy dialogues in Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia 2016–2019 - A retrospective Maybe related to our project in Kyrgyz
The African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement and agricultural development: challenges and prospects
Improving communications for antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Africa: How should we move forward?
Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition • FSN Forum could be a good platform to know food security and supply
Ash, Robert (1992) 'The Agricultural Sector in China: Performance and Policy Dilemmas during the 1990s.' The China Quarterly, 131 (Sep). pp. 545-576. Important article to understand the Chinese agricultural institutions
Ash, Robert (1998) 'Land Resources, Environment and Agricultural Production.' China Quarterly, No. 15. pp. 836-79 a good interdisciplinary article linked agriculture and environment in China
Ash, Robert (2006) 'Squeezing the Peasants: Grain Extraction, Food Consumption and Rural Living Standards.' The China Quarterly, 188. pp. 959-998. good article to know about the rural development of the country with largest rural population
Ash, Robert (2010) 'Food self-sufficiency: Should China feed itself?' China Economic Quarterly, 14 (Mar). pp. 47-52 food supply in such a big and populous country deserves sufficient attention
Ash, Robert (2014) 'A new line on food security.' China Economic Quarterly, 18 (3). pp. 45-48.
Effects of land transfer quality on the application of organic fertilizer by large-scale farmers in Chin