"Sustainable agriculture is farming in sustainable ways meeting society's present food and textile needs, without compromising the ability for current or future generations to meet their needs."
Involves the study of sustainable agricultural practices, food waste reduction, and ethical food production.
Food Security: The ability of people to access sufficient, safe, nutritious food to maintain a healthy and active life.
Food Sovereignty: The right of people to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems.
Sustainable Agriculture: The practice of growing food in ways that protect the environment, preserve biodiversity, and support local communities and economies.
Organic Farming: A system of agriculture that avoids using synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, and genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and instead relies on crop rotation, composting, and natural pest control methods to produce food.
Permaculture: A design system for creating sustainable human habitats that mimic the patterns and relationships found in natural ecosystems.
Agroecology: The application of ecological principles to the design and management of food systems, with a focus on promoting biodiversity, resilience, and social justice.
Local Food Systems: Food systems that prioritize local production, distribution, and consumption, with the goal of promoting community development, environmental sustainability, and economic resilience.
Food Waste Reduction: Efforts to reduce the amount of edible food that is lost or wasted throughout the food supply chain, with the goal of improving food security, reducing environmental impact, and conserving resources.
Climate-Smart Agriculture: Agricultural practices that contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, improving carbon sequestration, and increasing the resilience of food systems in the face of climate change.
Fair Trade: A market-based approach to promoting social and environmental sustainability in global trade, through the certification of goods that meet certain economic, social, and environmental criteria.
"Developing sustainable food systems contributes to the sustainability of the human population."
"Agriculture has an enormous environmental footprint, playing a significant role in causing climate change, water scarcity, water pollution, land degradation, deforestation and other processes."
"Food systems are responsible for one third of the anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions."
"Sustainable agriculture consists of environment friendly methods of farming that allow the production of crops or livestock without damage to human or natural systems."
"Elements of sustainable agriculture can include permaculture, agroforestry, mixed farming, multiple cropping, and crop rotation."
"Besides sustainable farming practices, dietary shifts to sustainable diets are an intertwined way to substantially reduce environmental impacts."
"Numerous sustainability standards and certification systems exist, including organic certification, Rainforest Alliance, Fair Trade, UTZ Certified, GlobalGAP, Bird Friendly, and the Common Code for the Coffee Community (4C)."
"Agriculture plays a significant role in water scarcity and water pollution."
"Agriculture plays a significant role in land degradation."
"Sustainable agriculture provides a potential solution to enable agricultural systems to feed a growing population within the changing environmental conditions."
"It can be based on an understanding of ecosystem services."
"It involves preventing adverse effects to soil, water, biodiversity, surrounding or downstream resources."
"It is simultaneously causing environmental changes and being impacted by these changes."
"When developing agriculture within sustainable food systems, it is important to develop flexible business process and farming practices."
"Agriculture has an enormous environmental footprint."
"Sustainable agriculture consists of environment friendly methods of farming that allow the production of crops or livestock without damage to human or natural systems, thereby preventing deforestation."
"There are many methods to increase the sustainability of agriculture."
"Sustainable agriculture involves preventing adverse effects...to those working or living on the farm or in neighboring areas."
"Sustainable agriculture consists of environment friendly methods of farming that allow the production of crops or livestock without damage to...biodiversity."