Farmland preservation and sustainable agriculture: Grassroots and policy connections

2000 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-43
Author(s):  
K.S. Korfmacher
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Agriculture ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Agricultural Practices ◽  
Farmland Preservation ◽  
Sustainable Food ◽  
Federal Policies ◽  
Support Organizations ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Policies And Programs

AbstractOver the long run, a sustainable food production system requires both a sufficient base of agricultural land and agricultural practices that do not degrade the land. However, current policies and programs for protecting agricultural land are not systematically integrated with those promoting sustainable agriculture. There are various ways that policymakers, agricultural support organizations, and researchers could better integrate farmland preservation and sustainable agriculture efforts. This paper suggests several approaches for developing such connections including: coordinating local, state, and federal policies, conducting related research, and developing integrated outreach and education programs.

Ecoagriculture for a Sustainable Food Future

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Chalmer
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Cultural Sensitivity ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Agricultural Practices ◽  
Constant Input ◽  
Sustainable Food ◽  
European Farming

Global food security is dependent on ecologically viable production systems, but current agricultural practices are often at odds with environmental sustainability. Resolving this disparity is a huge task, but there is much that can be learned from traditional food production systems that persisted for thousands of years. Ecoagriculture for a Sustainable Food Future describes the ecological history of food production systems in Australia, showing how Aboriginal food systems collapsed when European farming methods were imposed on bushlands. The industrialised agricultural systems that are now prevalent across the world require constant input of finite resources, and continue to cause destructive environmental change. This book explores the damage that has arisen from farming systems unsuited to their environment, and presents compelling evidence that producing food is an ecological process that needs to be rethought in order to ensure resilient food production into the future. Cultural sensitivity Readers are warned that there may be words, descriptions and terms used in this book that are culturally sensitive, and which might not normally be used in certain public or community contexts. While this information may not reflect current understanding, it is provided by the author in a historical context.

scholarly journals Mechanical distribution of beneficial arthropods in greenhouse and open field: A review

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Papa ◽  
Giuseppe Manetto ◽  
Emanuele Cerruto ◽  
Sabina Failla
Keyword(s):  
Food Production ◽  
Review Paper ◽  
Agricultural Practices ◽  
Collective Consciousness ◽  
Agricultural Activities ◽  
Beneficial Arthropods ◽  
Sustainable Food ◽  
Mechanical Devices ◽  
Beneficial Organisms ◽  
Made In

In the last decades, political policies and collective consciousness focused on the importance of sustainable food and environmentally friendly approaches in agriculture. Distribution of beneficial organisms is a very important factor in integrated pest management, and mechanical release could improve application uniformity as well as reduce costs and working time. Several mechanisation experiences have been carried out through the years, however none of them has still found a massive application in common agricultural practices. This review paper analyses all the efforts made in this direction, by evaluating main strengths and weakness points of manually brought, tractor mounted, or aerial mechanical devices. In this way development opportunities can be identified, in a field that could achieve a substantial role in food production and agricultural activities while respecting the environment and human health.

scholarly journals Restoring Nature at Lower Food Production Costs

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yiorgos Vittis ◽  
Christian Folberth ◽  
Sophie-Charlotte Bundle ◽  
Michael Obersteiner
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Agricultural Practices ◽  
Food Prices ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
High Yield ◽  
Economic Modelling ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Modelling Studies

Growing competition for land, water and energy call for global strategies ensuring affordable food production at minimum environmental impacts. Economic modelling studies suggest trade-off relationships between environmental sustainability and food prices. However, evidence based on empirical cost-functions supporting such trade-offs remains scarce at the global level. Here, based on cost engineering modelling, we show that optimised spatial allocation of 10 major crops, would reduce current costs of agricultural production by approximately 40% while improving environmental performance. Although production inputs per unit of output increase at local scales, a reduction of cultivated land of 50% overcompensates the slightly higher field-scale costs enabling improved overall cost-effectiveness. Our results suggest that long-run food prices are bound to continue to decrease under strong environmental policies. Policies supporting sustainability transitions in the land sector should focus on managing local barriers to the implementation of high-yield regenerative agricultural practices delivering multiple regional and global public goods.

scholarly journals “Illegal” Gold Mining Operations in Ghana: Implication for Climate-Smart Agriculture in Northwestern Ghana

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon Yenglier Yiridomoh
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Agriculture ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Gold Mining ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Smallholder Farmers ◽  
Agricultural Practices ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Mining Operations ◽  
Illegal Mining ◽  
Smart Agriculture

Globally, climate-smart agriculture is highly recognized as an approach for sustainable agriculture and food systems. In Africa and other developing countries, climate-smart agriculture is observed to reposition and modify agricultural systems for improved food and nutritional security. Despite the relevance of the approach to sustainable agricultural planning, illegal gold mining in many parts of the society is placing constraints to its implementation and adoption through its contest with agricultural land for space and activities. Illegal gold mining is on the rise due to the lucrativeness of the non-regulated gold rush opportunities with hard consequences on sustainable agriculture and resilience food systems. As a result, this study seeks to investigate illegal gold mining and its environmental implication for climate-smart agriculture in Ghana. The study used a single case study using a mixed-methods approach to research. The study adopted purposive and systematic sampling techniques to select the study communities and respondents, respectively. Questionnaire and interviews were used to gather the primary data from respondents at the household level, as the unit of analysis. Descriptive statistics and thematic analysis reveal that known agricultural practices such as terracing, crop rotation, use of domestic waste/manure, and irrigation of crops were affected adversely by activities of illegal mining. The study recommends the need for conscious efforts from the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources to sustain the ban on illegal mining with intensified monitoring and supervision while a systematic scheme involving relevant stakeholders is developed and implemented to ban illegal mining in Ghana completely. The Ministry of Food and Agriculture needs to develop an approach to support the adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices by smallholder farmers to meet the food demand of their households.

scholarly journals Boreal Agriculture Cannot Be Sustainable Without Food Sovereignty

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Keske
Keyword(s):  
Food Production ◽  
Food System ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Agricultural Practices ◽  
Sustainable Food ◽  
Community Governance ◽  
Food Regimes ◽  
Local Access ◽  
The Right ◽  
Agriculture And Food

Food sovereignty encompasses the right of humans to have access to, and to produce, healthy and culturally appropriate food. Food sovereignty exists within the “social” pillar of sustainability and sustainable food production. Over time, and as a result of colonialism and neo-liberal food regimes, Indigenous food system patterns in boreal regions have been disrupted. Imports make local food production economically infeasible. The intersection of food sovereignty and international trade is understudied. Food insecurity cycles are likely to perpetuate without deliberate action and government intervention. Policies that facilitate local access, and ownership, of agriculture and food processing facilities may foster food sovereignty. Indigenous community governance, and agricultural practices, are critical to restoring environmental and social sustainability.

scholarly journals Sustainable Agriculture: Farmers’ Perspectives on Transition to Sustainable Agricultural Practices

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paige Allen
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Agriculture ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Agricultural Practices ◽  
Sustainable Policy ◽  
Policies And Programs ◽  
Sustainable Agricultural Practices ◽  
Policy Discussion ◽  
Agricultural Production Systems

The role of sustainability in Canadian agricultural production systems is a complex and evolving topic. In 2018 Canada announced the launch of a five-year Canadian Agricultural Partnership which is a $3 billion funding initiative between the federal, provincial and territorial governments. Innovation and sustainability is one of the key elements of the initiative. The purpose of this research is to increase policy discussion in relation to sustainable agriculture through the engagement of farmers in Southern Ontario. This research will help improve the sustainable policies and programs by investigating farmers’ views on the inclusion and transition to sustainable farming practices, factors influencing farmers’ decisions to make the transition, as well as identifying deficits in current sustainable policy and programming in Ontario. It is essential to develop research which is representative of farmers’ viewpoints on as they are the stakeholders directly impacted by the policies and programs which are developed and enacted.

scholarly journals Voedselproduksie in ontwikkelende lande - die rol van plantbiotegnologie

1995 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-29
Author(s):  
D. I. Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Tissue Culture ◽  
Cell Biology ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Green Revolution ◽  
Rapid Population Growth ◽  
Sustainable Food ◽  
Sustainable Food Production ◽  
The World

The world is facing major problems with regard to food production. Agricultural land suffers from various conditions which make it less efficient for crop production while the rapid population growth, especially in developing countries, raises concern for sustainable food production. The Green Revolution has failed to secure sustainable food production and it is hoped that biotechnology will facilitate the transition to more sustainable agriculture. Excellent progress has been made with both Cell Biology (tissue culture) and Molecular Biology (genetic engineering).

scholarly journals Perlindungan Hukum Lahan Pertanian Pangan Berkelanjutan (PLP2B) Di Kabupaten Gresik Terhadap Ijin Usaha dan Industri

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
M. Hamzah Takim*
Keyword(s):  
Food Production ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Production Capacity ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Production Environment ◽  
Sustainable Food ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Direct And Indirect Impacts ◽  
Indirect Impacts ◽  
Waste Degradation

Rather than the function of agricultural land resulted in a variety of direct and indirect impacts and the serious implications of negative impacts on food production, environment, and culture of society that live on the upstream and surrounding land that is converted The. Thus over the function of agricultural land not only causes food production capacity to fall, but is one form of investment waste, degradation of agroecosystems, degradation of traditions and culture of agriculture, and slowly The perpetrators of the food farming will leave the food sector when not balanced by alihfunction control, incentive giving, and community empowerment. Therefore, the determination of sustainable food farming land and the management of food farming land is one of the very strategic policies.

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