Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security
Emerging agricultural biotechnologies for sustainable agriculture and food security
... allowed agriculture to move much more rapidly on a trajectory toward ...improved food security and environmental ...food security. An integrated approach including precision ...
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Vol 2 No 3 (2012): Food Systems and Higher Education
... and food insecurity with the county’s children and families, to help children develop knowledge about where their food comes from and the role they can play in more sustainably producing and acquiring it, ...
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Sustainable rural development through agriculture: an answer to economic development in india
... be sustainable it should be economically viable over the long ...Conventional agriculture involves more economic risk than sustainable agriculture in the long ...local food ...
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Food security: intensification of agriculture is essential, for which current tools must be defended and new sustainable technologies invented
... ing sustainable agriculture (Glover and Reganold 2010), although harvesting will still require an external input (Royal Society 2009), hence the studies introducing peren- niality from perennial relatives, ...
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Soya fortified yorghurt – way forward to indigenous and probiotic product development for sustainable food security
... be sustainable because the production costs are very low and the required ingredients are available ...improving food security in the aspects of food availability and ...in agriculture, ...
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Gender and sustainability: Learning from women’s farming in the global South
... favor sustainable practices developed over generations, such as crop rotation and turning animal waste into fertilizer, to keep the land ...toward food security over market gains, they can, working ...
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Sustainable Development Goal 2: improved targets and indicators for agriculture and food security
... under sustainable practices; while percentage is a quantifiable metric, agreeing on what sustainability is, when it is achieved and what it translates into at different scales can be ...of food pro- duction ...
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Agriculture, Climate Change and Food Security
... Agriculture is one of the main economic activities in the world, with its significance magnified es- pecially among the world’s poor. This paper seeks to explore how climate change would impact on the agricultural ...
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Sustainable horticulture: understanding barriers to the adoption of innovation
... local food supply. It generally refers to a form of agriculture that minimizes environmental problems, whose farms earn stable and profitable returns, where workers and animals are treated fairly, and the ...
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Assessing food security and local food systems for healthy, livable and sustainable communities in north alabama
... in food production. Recognizing these challenges, analyzing food security has now evolved from the food production perspective into a more comprehensive food systems approach (Ingram, ...
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11. AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SECURITY UNDER CLIMATE CHANGEIN MIDDLE BELT OF NIGERIA;CHALLENGE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
... Nigeria has a land area of about 910,770 km 2 one of the largest countries in West Africawith thirty-six states distributed into six geopolitical across five ecological regions. It shares a common boundary with the Benin ...
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Multi facet approach for food security in Pakistan
... having sustainable increase in agricultural productivity and food security, which Pakistan is facing at the moment and in future it can become very ...for food policy, for enhancing ...
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SUPPORTING SUSTAINABLE LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION FOR BETTER FOOD SECURITY AND NUTRITION: A CASE STUDY OF SOUTH AFRICA
... ecologically sustainable development and use of natural resources while promoting justifiable economic and social ...sufficient food and water and that every child has the right to basic nutrition, shelter, ...
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Grow your own food security? Integrating science and citizen science to estimate the contribution of own growing to UK food production
... Urban agriculture is increasingly recognized as an important con- tributor to the sustainability and resilience of cities by policy-mak- ers from local through to transnational levels of ...urban ...
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Beyond climate-smart agriculture: toward safe operating spaces for global food systems
... increasing food security, adaptation and mitigation in a sustainable ...the agriculture, development and climate change communities under one ...climate-smart agriculture as ...
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Assessment of response IBA 99 wheat variety for zero tillage under many nutrient rates
... the sustainable ecological agriculture has been come one of the essentials in the sustainable productivity to achieve a food security particularly in wheat crop because it was the main ...
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Sustainable Food Security: Floating Balance of Markets
... dynamic security is indeed made under an influence of these circumstances and at the same time shows an untapped potential of national ...possible food shortage in case of critical aggravation in a ...
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Children’s reporting of food insecurity in predominately food insecure households in Texas border colonias
... of food security status and indi- vidual food security constructs was assessed using Cohen’s kappa (κ) statistic, which provides the amount of agree- ment between two unique raters after ...
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Introduction
... A food system always includes a food chain, but it is more than that: it includes as well other actors than those dealing materially with food and its production, such as project people, social ...
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Systemic sustainability characteristics of organic farming: a review
... Organic agriculture is, therefore, presented as ideal in terms of human and economic ...organic agriculture with monocultures controlled by powerful companies does not pay much attention to farmers, ...
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