The industrial livestock industry is a major contributor to forest loss and climate change. A reduction in meat consumption by rich countries and a global transition to agroecology, agroforestry, and extensive traditional pastoralist practices are needed. […]
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Industrial agriculture is vulnerable and unsustainable, and only a wholesale shift to diversified agroecological systems can bring food security, environmental and livelihood resilience, nutritional adequacy and social equity. […] This paper makes a compelling case that it is an Agroecological Revolution, with small-scale farmers at the centre, that will feed Africa rather than a corporate-driven Green Revolution with GM crops. […] The first map of smallholder farms in developing countries shows that more than 380 million small farms produce more than half the world’s food calories. […] Recommendations from the FAO’s regional symposium on agroecology in Europe and Central Asia to take agroecology forward in the region. […] Traditional communities in Peru and China have developed numerous effective biocultural or traditional knowledge innovations to strengthen their resilience to climate change. […] ‘Organic 3.0’ is meant to be more ecologically sound, economically viable, socially just, culturally diverse, and transparently accountable; and will enable the uptake of truly sustainable farming systems and markets based on organic principles. […] Rather than asking how we can ‘feed the world,’ we should be asking what can improve the social conditions in food and farming systems, how we can secure access to natural resources, and what public policies and processes should govern these systems. […] FAO’s website on Agroeocology (www.fao.org/agroecology) highlights and shares relevant knowledge on agroecology. […] The State of Food and Agriculture 2016 stresses that unless action is taken now to make agriculture more sustainable, productive and resilient, climate change impacts will seriously compromise food production in the world’s most fragile regions. […] |
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