scholarly journals LivestockPlus: Forages, sustainable intensification, and food security in the tropics

AMBIO ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 44 (7) ◽  
pp. 685-693 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas K. Rudel ◽  
Birthe Paul ◽  
Douglas White ◽  
I. M. Rao ◽  
Rein Van Der Hoek ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Sustainable Intensification ◽  
The Tropics

scholarly journals The global palm oil sector must change to save biodiversity and improve food security in the tropics

2017 ◽  
Vol 203 ◽  
pp. 457-466 ◽  
Author(s):  
Badrul Azhar ◽  
Norzanalia Saadun ◽  
Margi Prideaux ◽  
David B. Lindenmayer
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Palm Oil ◽  
Oil Sector ◽  
The Tropics ◽  
Improve Food Security

scholarly journals Climate Smart Agriculture: A New Approach for Sustainable Intensification

2020 ◽  
pp. 138-147
Author(s):  
Gayatri Sahu ◽  
Pragyan Paramita Rout ◽  
Suchismita Mohapatra ◽  
Sai Parasar Das ◽  
Poonam Preeti Pradhan
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Agricultural Practices ◽  
Sustainable Intensification ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Agricultural System ◽  
World Population ◽  
Resource Degradation ◽  
Security Challenge ◽  
Smart Agriculture

World population is increasing day by day and at the same time agriculture is threatened due to natural resource degradation and climate change. A growing global population and changing diets are driving up the demand for food. The food security challenge will only become more difficult, as the world will need to produce about 70 percent more food by 2050 to feed an estimated 9 billion people. Production stability, agricultural productivity, income and food security is negatively affected by changing climate. Therefore, agriculture must change according to present situation for meeting the need of food security and also withstanding under changing climatic situation. Agriculture is a prominent source as well as a sink of greenhouse gases (GHGs). So, there is a need to modify agricultural practices in a sustainable way to overcome these problems. Developing climate smart agriculture is thus crucial to achieving future food security and climate change goals. It helps the agricultural system to resist damage and recover quickly by adaptation and mitigation strategies. Sustainable Intensification is an essential means of adapting to climate change, also resulting in lower emissions per unit of output. With its emphasis on improving risk management, information flows and local institutions to support adaptive capacity, CSA provides the foundations for incentivizing and enabling intensification. Since climate smart agriculture is defined along three pillars (productivity increases, building resilience and adapting, and GHG emission reduction), key concepts such as productivity, resilience, vulnerability and carbon sequestration provide indicators for future empirical measurements of the climate smart agriculture concept.

0835 Contribution of pastoral systems to global food security and potential for sustainable intensification

2016 ◽  
Vol 94 (suppl_5) ◽  
pp. 401-402
Author(s):  
A. Mottet ◽  
F. Teillard ◽  
G. Cinardi ◽  
G. Velasco Gil
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Sustainable Intensification ◽  
Pastoral Systems ◽  
Global Food Security ◽  
Global Food

scholarly journals Addressing the Conceptual Controversy of Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture: A Combined Perspective from Environmental Philosophy and Agri-Environmental Sciences

Philosophies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gustavo Cambareri ◽  
Joshua Grant-Young
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Agricultural Science ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Sustainable Intensification ◽  
Environmental Philosophy ◽  
Environmental Footprint ◽  
Conceptual Frameworks ◽  
Environmental Sciences ◽  
Growing Population

During the last 20 years, agronomists, environmentalists and related researchers have conveyed the need of producing enough food to satisfy the growing population demand, with minimum environmental footprint. Under this framework, the need for a “sustainable intensification” (SI) of agriculture has arisen, being a concept deeply contested the last several years. We aim to shed some light on the matter from the point of view of both environmental philosophy and agri-environmental sciences. We found that the lack of clarity exposes the conceptual limits of SI, since its attributions are far from being extrapolated, for example, to animal production. Agricultural science should ensure that stakeholders understand the facts and implications of SI before implementing them. In addition, if understood only as either a set of practices or a sort of panacea, SI will be closer to fail for stakeholders’ expectations. Then, a key concern we have highlighted is one which should compel agri-environmental scientists and environmental philosophers alike to hold such conceptual frameworks accountable. Ensuring communities and public actors make informed choices about food security requires that shared goals between our disciplines are enacted in research, with community well-being as a core consideration of any debate regarding sustainability.

scholarly journals Food Security TEP - Supporting sustainable intensification of food production from Space

2020 ◽  
Vol 509 ◽  
pp. 012038 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Muerth ◽  
S Migdall ◽  
M Hodrius ◽  
F Niggemann ◽  
M Holzapfel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Sustainable Intensification

scholarly journals Farmed animal production in tropical circular food systems

Food Security ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Oosting ◽  
Jan van der Lee ◽  
Marc Verdegem ◽  
Marion de Vries ◽  
Adriaan Vernooij ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Crop Residues ◽  
Food System ◽  
Livestock Production ◽  
Animal Production ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Nitrogen And Phosphorus ◽  
The Tropics

AbstractIn the discourse about the development of farmed animal production (terrestrial livestock production and aquaculture) in the tropics, two important food system outcomes emerge: (1) to supply animal-sourced food (ASF) at a level that suffices healthy future diets, including for poor people, and (2) to contribute to climate change mitigation and minimize pollution with nitrogen and phosphorus. Livestock production and aquaculture contribute to food security directly by increasing producers’ food diversity and availability, but also that of urban consumers, and indirectly through income generation and increased farm resilience. Recently, circularity has come to the fore as an integrated approach to food system development. Circularity has four cornerstones: (1) food crops have highest priority (which implies no food-feed competition), (2) avoid losses, (3) recycle waste and (4) use animals to unlock biomass that humans cannot eat. In this review, the role of farmed animals in circular food systems in the tropics is presented in four case studies and the impacts of circularity on food security and environmental impact mitigation are discussed. The cases are ruminants in grazing systems in West Africa and in Colombia, fish in pond aquaculture in general, and land-limited dairy production in Indonesia. Additionally, options for novel protein sources for use in livestock and fish feeding are presented. It is concluded that farmed animals are important in circular food systems because of their use of land unsuited for crop production, their upgrading of crop residues, and their supply of manure to crop production. Nevertheless, the increasing demand for ASF puts pressure on important characteristics of circularity, such as minimizing food-feed competition, maximization of use of waste streams in feed, and the value of manure for fertilization. Hence, in line with conclusions for Western countries, maximum circularity and sustainability of food systems can only be achieved by optimizing the population size of animals. Thus, a sustainable contribution of ASF production to global food security is complex and in not only a technical matter or outcome of an economic process balancing supply and demand. It requires governance for which public, private, and social actors need to partner.

scholarly journals Food security as a function of Sustainable Intensification of Crop Production

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-238
Author(s):  
Theodor Friedrich ◽  
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Amir Kassam
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Sustainable Intensification
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