The over-reliance on chemicals, fertilizers and mono-cropping is the primary driver of environmental degradation on the planet—it’s agriculture’s dirty secret.
The evidence for this is now overwhelming: today’s agricultural practices are a key contributor to rampant biodiversity losses, degradation of some 20 percent of global land, and 30 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.
To reverse these trends, there is a critical and urgent need to alter our expectations of agriculture and food systems. We must shift our focus away from simplified and uniform systems based on high chemical inputs to diversified agroecological systems and landscapes that yield multiple goods and services.
According to a high-level report recently released by the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food), data and evidence are not what is limiting us in this transition. Rather, a number of vicious cycles, vested interests and entrenched thinking are the main barriers.
Fatema Zohora
August 6, 2016 at 12:42ami am a farmer, but not traditional. by few years i am engaged with farming and working very intensively. i am a believer of ecofarming.
basically i am economist and environment and gender activist.
your publication helping me very-much.