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Sustainable Agriculture


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Sustainable agriculture and farming is the science, art, or practice of cultivating the soil, producing crops, and raising livestock that is economically viable, socially responsible, and ecologically sound, renewing the land for continued agricultural use in the long term. In practice, agricultural sustainability may also include budgetary and politically acceptable policies of governmental aid to help transition farming to more sustainable practices, control prices of food in poorer nations, and prevent environmental harms. On a global level, two trends are on a crash course: there is a steady increase in the consumption of food and fiber, and a steady decline in the quality and productivity of agricultural soils. In addition, farming is the single greatest threat to the planet's biodiversity and ecosystem services. Sustainable agriculture requires the reorganization of producers, buyers, investors, regulators, traders, wholesalers, retailers, and consumers as well as commodity financial agents. Sustainable world agriculture works toward breaking perverse incentives and practices that encourage soil depletion and agribusiness favoritism, promotes water conservation, higher producer incomes, and protection of biodiversity.
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ICSD (International Centre for Sustainable Development ) is a non-profit, non-political, organization registered with the Government of Nepal and also affiliated with Social Welfare Council of Nepal. Established in Nepal with the purpose of sustainable development and led by a group of professionals in sustainable development field. ICSD, running volunteer programs in Nepal and Thailand for community support and cultural exchanges. Programs are available year-round in the areas of English teaching, orphanage, conservation work, health, and many more as per the interest of volunteers. We are professional people who believe in integrity growth and harmony
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Sleaze introduction of GMOs through the backdoor of reduced rainfall by the EU parliament and the UN.

 

Some of the 50 parliamentarians from across West Africa attending a conference on climate change, and food and water security held in Dakar on 25 and 26 March, looked uncomfortable when presented with a picture of a banana with a watermelon-coloured peel and an elephant with a cabbage head. “This is what you think genetically modified organisms (GMO) look like, right?” asked the plant breeding expert, Marcel Galiba. “I want you to reconsider,” he challenged the lawmakers.

 

“We want them to take this information back to their parliaments and lobby for urgently needed action,” European Parliamentarians for Africa (AWEPA)'s Secretary General, Pär Granstedt, told IRIN.


The lawmakers- mostly from Senegal, Mali, Côte d’Ivoire and Benin, and a small number from Europe – listened to presentations from the UN World Food Programme (WFP).

 

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I'm just wondering if anybody has information about Codex Alimentarius and what this lady Rima E. Laibow is talking about on her webpage and in this video. Would be interested in a comment. Thank you.
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To what extent can sustainable agriculture be achieved in an environment of contnual transformation (inorganic development)? Organic elements and processes only occurred at the inception and since then any development has been a transfomation of the original organic elements.
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