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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 - To be sustainable, agriculture must meet the needs of present and future generations, while ensuring profitability, environmental health, and social and economic equity, 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
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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
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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…
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Global Climate 2021...
The global surface temperature for 2021 was the sixth highest since record keeping began in 1880, according to NOAA scientists. A separate analysis of global temperature data reveals that 2021 tied with 2018 as the sixth-warmest year on record (NOAA, 2022).
Most recently, the globe heated through a November that ranked as the fourth warmest in 142 years and the Northern Hemisphere saw its warmest land temperatures on record for meteorological autumn, according to scientists at NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). December’s global surface temperature tied with 2016 as the fifth highest in the 142-year record (NOAA, 2022).
The year 2021 began with an episode of cold phase, also known as La Niña, across the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, which had developed in August 2020. Although the monthly global temperatures were above average throughout the year, February 2021 was the coldest month of 2021. Global temperature departure for February 2021 was +0.64°C — the coolest February since 2014. However, after the month of February, temperatures were at 0.80°C or higher for the remaining months of 2021 (NOAA, 2022).
2021 culminated as the sixth warmest year on record for the globe with a temperature that was 0.84°C above the 20th century average. The years 2013–2021 all rank among the ten warmest years on record. 2021 was also the 45th consecutive year (since 1977) with global temperatures, at least nominally, above the 20th century average. Overall, the global annual temperature has increased at an average rate of 0.08°C per decade since 1880 and over twice that rate (0.18°C) since 1981 (NOAA, 2022). ____ https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/global-climate-202112 https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/202113 https://www.noaa.gov/news/2021-was-worlds-6th-warmest-year-on-record https://www.noaa.gov/news/november-2021-was-earths-4th-warmest-on-record
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Agriculture, Ecology, and a New Path Forward*
The science of agroecology is rooted in our collective consideration and comprehension of agriculture and natural history. Agroecology can be defined as the study of complex interactions between the components, reactions, and processes of the global (natural) environment, and human (anthropogenic) activities associated with agriculture and food systems. It offers a useful context in which to characterize the complex relations and adaptations among natural resources and agriculture, and provides the ecological basis for development of more efficient and sustainable farming systems.
Agriculture productivity gains since the 1950s have resulted from the development of farming systems that rely heavily on external inputs of energy and chemicals to replace management and on-farm resources. The intensity and extent to which the natural environment has been modified to attain this productive capacity has directly resulted in degradation of natural resources, notably land and water, that sustain these systems.
Agroecology provides the ecological basis for more sustainable farming, as well as the opportunity to characterize or refine the cumulative effects of agriculture activities at watershed, ecoregion, national, and global scales. Regional and national scale efforts are needed for determining sustainable options based on such factors as projected population trends, consumption patterns, resource availability and integrity, and long-term productive capacity, among others.
Agriculture’s role in complex issues including environmental quality and ecosystems degradation, food insecurity/safety, rural economic well-being, biodiversity, climate change/resilience, habitat loss and disruption, among others, must be critically assessed in developing more sustainable communities and countries. Transition to a more sustainable, global ecology and economy ultimately requires a gradual shift away from research and technologies that promote large-scale, highly-specialized operations; and toward on-farm resources and information and technology requirements of more diverse, management-intensive systems. ____ * Adapted from abstract presented for the joint annual meetings of the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) and the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society (AFHVS), San Francisco, CA. June 4-7, 1998; under the original title Agriculture, Ecology and a New Millennium.
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