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The UK-China Sustainable Agriculture Innovation Network has four primary goals: 1. Support UK-China SDD by policy approaches, institutional mechanisms, and moving policy and science to the ground level. 2. Encourage and grow research on environmentally sustainable agriculture and its relevance to local, national, and the global economy. 3.
Sustainable agriculture provides a potential solution to enable agricultural systems to feed a growing population within the changing environmental conditions. [6] Besides sustainable farming practices, dietary shifts to sustainable diets are an intertwined way to substantially reduce environmental impacts.
The Global Forum on Agricultural Research and Innovation (GFAR) is an international forum that focuses on the future of agriculture and its role in development around the world. [1] [2] Established in 1996, GFAR was formed as a project for resource sharing. [3] [4] GFAR's headquarters is in Rome, Italy, where it is hosted by FAO. Its current ...
Sustainable agriculture integrates three main goals, environmental health, economic profitability, and social and economic equity. These goals have been defined by a variety of philosophies, policies, and practices, from the vision of farmers and consumers.
Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems is an academic journal published by Cambridge University Press on sustainable agriculture. It was formerly known as the American Journal of Alternative Agriculture. It is published quarterly. Its 2008 Volume 23 is its first special free-access edition. [1]
Digital agriculture, sometimes known as smart farming or e-agriculture, [1] are tools that digitally collect, store, analyze, and share electronic data and/or information in agriculture. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has described the digitalization process of agriculture as the digital agricultural revolution . [ 2 ]
Agricultural technology or agrotechnology (abbreviated agtech, agritech, AgriTech, or agrotech) is the use of technology in agriculture, horticulture, and aquaculture with the aim of improving yield, efficiency, and profitability. Agricultural technology can be products, services or applications derived from agriculture that improve various ...
Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) (or climate resilient agriculture) is a set of farming methods that has three main objectives with regards to climate change. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Firstly, they use adaptation methods to respond to the effects of climate change on agriculture (this also builds resilience to climate change ).