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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 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
Created a Post in Agriculture
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…
Created a Post in Stockholm+50, Agriculture, Climate Change
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
Created a Post in Agriculture, Climate Change
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.
Created a Post in Agriculture, Natural Capital, Tourism and Hospitality
Let's talk on the declaration of great bull called mahanandi great bull declaration form the asia Pacific work station centred at mahanandi
Created a Post in ISLANDS, Agriculture, Climate Change
Soil Degradation Is Undermining Food Security In The Caribbean
Curbing soil degradation is critical to the food security and ecological sustainability of the Caribbean— yet unsustainable land management practices, coupled with the pressures of climate change continue to impact soil health and threaten to rob the region of its prospects for a food secure future. Indeed, 14% of the two billion hectares of degraded land in the world can be found in the Caribbean region.
Regionally, unsustainable agricultural practices, which include tilling, deep root removal, slash and burn and indiscriminate use of harmful chemicals, have contributed to the degradation and depletion of 75% of natural carbon stocks and biodiversity from the region’s agricultural soils.
Given their strategic importance to economic growth, environmental health, food security and human development, land practices that regenerate and promote soil health should be non-negotiable.
Created a Post in Agriculture, Cities and Urban Development
Urban Farming: city allotments could be as productive as conventional farms, research finds.
A two-year pilot study found that volunteer urban growers were able to harvest 1kg of insect-pollinated fruit and vegetables per sq metre in a season – which researchers said put their yields within the range of conventional farms.
“In a world of increasing urbanisation in both the developing and developed worlds, producing food in and around cities has the potential to improve both nutritional and health outcomes, alleviate poverty and simultaneously provide habitat for wildlife and create sustainable cities.”
Hi actually am doing school gardening projects for primary school i use permaculture technic due to climatic change to avoid using lot of water for irrigation we just wait when it rain
Created a Post in Agriculture, Green Recovery from COVID-19, Climate Change
Our food systems are failing us. Over 800 million people are suffering from hunger, while 13% of the world’s population are obese. So what is to blame?
Agricultural production follows the money. And 87% of the $540 billion given to agricultural producers each year is either price distorting or harmful to nature and human health. So what we can do to fix it?
Listen to our latest #podcast to find out! We discuss how #foodsystems transformation can generate system-wide benefits while protecting farmers, consumers and nature ?
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Fertile soils produce 95% of our food, regulate water cycles, support vital waterways and mitigate climate change by storing 80% of carbon, but unsustainable human activity is degrading soils at alarming rates.
Soil salinization and sodification are major soil degradation processes threatening ecosystem and are recognized as being among the most important problems for agricultural production, food security and sustainability.
Following World Soil Day 2021 - which was celebrated yesterday on the 5th of December - let's raise awareness of the importance of maintaining healthy ecosystems and human well-being by addressing the growing challenges in soil management, fighting soil salinization, increasing soil awareness and encouraging societies to improve soil health.