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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, Climate Change, Industry and Entrepreneurship
Hi there from Chelmsford, England on behalf of Project Globalymbe. We are very much looking forward to discussing Stockholm+50 and IPBES9 conferences. Tally ho! Andrew.
Created a Post in Stockholm+50, Agriculture
Our development pathways, including the SDGs, stem from a highly anthropocentric understanding of the world, with human beings firmly at the center of it. Put it simply, it's always all about us.
But humans are not separated from the natural environment, we are part of it, and this conception has yes brought development (in certain areas of the world), but has also caused the current triple crises of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution.
Animal welfare specifically have constantly be left out of global environmental discourses. This has a wide range of negative consequences given that systems underpinned by animal suffering threaten sustainable development (e.g. industrial farming, wild-life trade etc.).
But also, in the transition to a more sustainable society, animals should be treated ethically in their own right, don't you think?
Read this interesting article to see how animal welfare is linked to sustainable development and why it should be high on the agenda at Stockholm+50.
Thanks Silvia Mantilla for sharing!
Created a Post in Stockholm+50, Agriculture, Climate Change
A lesson from the Pollinators...
If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward. Martin Luther King, Jr.
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. Confucius
The key to success is action, and the essential in action is perseverance. Sun Yat-sen
The winds of heaven change suddenly; so do human fortunes. Chinese Proverb
Change your thoughts and you change your world. Norman Vincent Peale
Wherever wind visits, there it freshens the air; wherever wisdom visits, there it freshens the mind! Mehmet Murat Ildan
There are many paths to enlightenment. Be sure to take one with a heart. Lao Tzu
Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be. Jim Britt
True enlightenment is nothing but the nature of one's own self being fully realized. Dalai Lama
Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. Marianne Williamson
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. Confucius ___ https://lnkd.in/eDDPqfT https://lnkd.in/ermBtD7 https://lnkd.in/eGypHvT https://lnkd.in/e3KXtT4 https://www.pollinator.org/shop/posters
Created a Post in Agriculture, Climate Change, Forestry
Did you know there’s another COP?
With just months to go until UN Biodiversity COP15, countries left Geneva without resolving many of the key elements of the Global Biodiversity Framework. Observers said the talks moved at a “glacial pace”, with some raising concerns that countries are “heading for Copenhagen” – a reference to the 2009 climate summit that was widely perceived to have ended in failure.
Read Elizabeth Mrema, chief of the Convention of Biological Diversity, reflections on the negotiations and her hope - which I personally completely support - climate change and biodiversity loss should be tackled together as one problem at UN summits in future.
Announcing the UN Decade of Family Farming...
The UN Decade of Family Farming 2019-2028 (UNDFF) aims to shed new light on what it means to be a family farmer in a rapidly changing world and highlights more than ever before the important role they play in eradicating hunger and shaping our future of food. Family farming offers a unique opportunity to ensure food security, improve livelihoods, better manage natural resources, protect the environment and achieve sustainable development, particularly in rural areas. Thanks to their wisdom and care for the earth, family farmers are the agents of change we need to achieve Zero Hunger, a more balanced and resilient planet, and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (FAO, 2022).
Through their Global Action Plan UNDFF provides detailed guidance for the international community on collective, coherent and comprehensive actions that can be taken to support family farmers. The Plan is designed around seven mutually reinforcing pillars of work and recommends a series of interconnected actions from the local to the global level (UNDFF, 2022).
UNDFF needs your help to collecting stories that showcase the contributions of family farmers and/or highlight the challenges they face. The stories can come from farmers themselves, but also from the people or institutions that work with farmers. Participants can use the template provided as a basis for stories. Please consider submitting your story with photos to undff@fao.org to have it featured on the UNDFF’s website!
Long live Family Farms and their Supporters! ___ https://www.fao.org/family-farming-decade/home/en/ https://www.fao.org/3/ca4672en/ca4672en.pdf https://www.fao.org/family-farming/home/en/ https://www.fao.org/3/cb7496en/cb7496en.pdf
Created a Post in Energy, Agriculture, Water and Sanitation
Hi to the group, to reduce water consumption, we have designed this shower timer with cut off to prevent from wasting water and gas. It is programmable and restricts the maximum time for shower and when it has been used, it blocks the shower and keeps it shut during the waiting time we have previously set. Therefore, the user has to abandon the the shower and water and energy are being saved. Saves up to 80% of water and energy.
Created a Post in Agriculture
Bangladeshi Farmers Respond to COVID-19 with Innovation and Sustainability
United Nations association of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana APUNA granted special Accrediation to involve at preparation meeting
Created a Post in Forestry, Agriculture, Climate Change
United Nations + Sustainable Forestry
Forests are good for our physical and mental well being. Spending time around trees helps boost our immune system, lowers blood pressure and promotes relaxation. From cleaner air to providing natural cooling and the freshwater we drink, forests support our health in ways that may not be visible (UN, 2021).
I have known (and loved) the Menominee Tribe and many of the tribal members of NE Wisconsin and the Great Lakes Region all my life, and to this day, have not found better forest managers and stewards of our forested lands. The proof – they've been doing it for more than 150 years.
Forest lands of the Menominee Tribe of NE Wisconsin have survived as an island of timber in an ocean of cleared land (note graphic). Their forest lands have been sustainably managed for more than 150 years, and allow the Tribe to experience a traditional quality of life from an intact, diverse, productive, and healthy forest ecosystem on the reservation.
Responsible harvesting is at the heart of their sustainable forestry program and currently, there is more standing saw timber volume (1.7 billion board feet) than there was in 1854 (estimated at 1.2 billion board feet). During this same period, over 2.25 billion board feet have been harvested from the same acreage (MTE, 2020). ___ https://lnkd.in/djZsvWh https://lnkd.in/dwXDCrq https://lnkd.in/d69K-FA https://lnkd.in/eCugQKg https://lnkd.in/e5quP38
International Satellite Missions for Agriculture and Sustainable Land Management...
This post is an attempt to share my research on international satellite missions dedicated to agriculture and sustainable land management applications. For those unfamiliar with the contemporary science of Agroecology, I have also provided a link to a recent post entitled “Agriculture, Ecology and a New Path Forward” intended to offer an agroecosystems context for the incredible amount of satellite data and information generated from these missions every day. ____ https://appliedsciences.nasa.gov/join-mission/training/english/satellit… https://nasaharvest.org/ https://nasaharvest.org/all-projects https://nasaharvest.org/nasa-agriculture-activities https://nasaharvest.org/project/nasa-harvest-portal https://newfarmers.usda.gov/usda-and-nasa-explore-frontier-agriculture https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/ https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/landsat-9 https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/spinoff/feature/NASA_is_Eve… https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=AIrMOSS&m=0!0!2!1!0! https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/benefits-of-space/agriculture.html https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/goddard/2020/nasa-technology-to-reve… https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites/everyday-lives/agriculture-in-… https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites/radarsat/default.asp https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/sciences/smap.asp https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/ba2645d5-4458-414d-b196-6303ac06… https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Missions/SMOS/(result_type)/images https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2009/09/SMOS https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Taking_farming_int… https://earth.esa.int/web/guest/earth-topics/agriculture#:~:text=Satell…. https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Satellites_and_mac… https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Monitoring_Earth_s… https://www.eorc.jaxa.jp/en/observation/earth/crops.html https://sharaku.eorc.jaxa.jp/GSMaP/index.htm http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/1258016/icode/ https://lcluc.umd.edu/sites/default/files/Hamamoto_0.pdf https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/a/alos-2 http://www.fao.org/news/podcast/remote-sensing/en/ http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/1307921/icode/ http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/1200536/icode/ http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/1173756/icode/ http://www.openforis.org/tools/collect-earth.html http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/881759/icode/ https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/content/noaa-satellite-data-aids-nation%E2%… https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/content/noaa-satellite-data-used-study-find… https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/n/noaa-p… https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/star/stratplans.php https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/content/two-orbits-one-mission-noaa-satelli… https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/6605/agricultural-patterns https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:686453928378561740…