SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE

SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE da Crizel Baria

1. Right to food

2. Enhance quality of life for farm families and communities

3. Increase production for human food and fiber needs

4. Insecurity of foods

5. Malnutrition

6. Low weight for age

7. IMPACT OF AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES

8. Air pollution and climate change

9. Pollution from biomass burning

10. Nitrous oxide

11. Ammonia

12. INVIRONMENTAL DIMENSIONS OF WATER AND WATER POLLUTIONS BY AGRICULTURE

13. Methane from ruminant and rice production

14. Overextraction of groundwater

15. Water logging and salinization

16. Pollution by fertilizers

17. Pollution from livestock wastes

18. Pesticides pollution

19. General decline in species richness

20. Reduction of wild species including micro organisms

21. LOSS OF BIOLOGICAL AND ECOLOGICAL DIVERSITY

22. Reduction in wild species that depends for habitat

23. Loss of natural wildlife habitat

24. SUSTAINABLE FARMING METHOD

25. Crop rotation and diversity

26. Cover crops

27. Agroforestry and natural animal raising

28. Integrated pest management

29. Renewable energy use

30. No till farming

31. Environmental health

32. Economic Profitability

33. Social equity

34. Promote environmental stewardship

35. Increase profitable farm income

36. MAIN GOALS

37. Lack of secure access to safe and nutritious food for healthy life

38. Food insecurity and the state of Agriculture

39. AGRICULTURE IMPACT ON LAND

40. Land cover change

41. Cultivation of slope lands

42. Reclamation of wetlands

43. Land degradation

44. Area of degraded land

45. Impact of degradation on productive

46. PERTURBATION OF GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

47. Anthropogenic perturbation

48. Nitrogen, phosphate and sulfur cycles