Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security: Balancing Productivity, Environmental Conservation, and Human Health
Synopsis
Which exemplifies the grand challenge of feeding a rapidly expanding world population in an environment-friendly and health-supporting way. This paper examines the concept of sustainable agriculture and its implications for food security. It examines practices and technologies that will maintain or increase current productivity while challenging the line of thought that the health of the environment and agriculture must be mutually exclusive.• Choices - Offers eco-friendly, clean yields with lower environmental risks• Consequences - Addresses the social and economic aspects of new farming methods. Advantages and disadvantages for the implementation of these ecologically based farming systems are also considered.