We cannot solve the problems we have created with the same thinking we used in creating them - Albert Einstein. S outh Asia still faces the greatest hunger burden, with over 281 million malnourished people, including 40% of India’s population. How we grow and consume our food has a significant impact on levels of hunger, but it doesn’t end there. If done right, agriculture and forests can become sources of decent incomes for the global population, the engines of rural development, and our vanguard against climate change. The agricultural sector is the single largest employer in the world, employing 40% of the global population, and in India, 54.6% of its total workforce. Even with more than half of the country’s population employed in the sector, agriculture contributes only 15% of India’s GDP. Restores and nourishes the soil : Healthy soil ultimately leads to healthier plants and animals, resulting in much more nutritious food for people. It holds mo
We cannot solve the problems we have created with the same thinking we used in creating them - Albert Einstein.
South Asia still faces the greatest hunger burden, with over 281 million malnourished people, including 40% of India’s population. How we grow and consume our food has a significant impact on levels of hunger, but it doesn’t end there. If done right, agriculture and forests can become sources of decent incomes for the global population, the engines of rural development, and our vanguard against climate change. The agricultural sector is the single largest employer in the world, employing 40% of the global population, and in India, 54.6% of its total workforce. Even with more than half of the country’s population employed in the sector, agriculture contributes only 15% of India’s GDP.
Restores and nourishes the soil :
Healthy soil ultimately leads to healthier plants and animals,
resulting in much more nutritious food for people. It holds moisture much more
efficiently than depleted soil does, and leads to resilient healthy plants that
are not as susceptible to attacks from diseases and pests. In contrast, the conventional agriculture style of heavy tillage and ever-increasing toxic chemicals that dominates our food system today is very destructive to soil
ecology. Such as a system generally fails to nourish the soil
beyond the three primary nutrients of nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorous
(NPK).
Such a
simplified mechanistic view of plant-based nutrition and wellness leaves out
many different important nutrients, minerals, and healthful plant compounds
that plants need, resulting in depleted soil that grows much less nutritious
food and leads to nutrient deficiencies in the human population. This lack of
respect for the soil in today’s conventional industrial agriculture system is
plagued with problems of soil erosion, crops that are susceptible to attacks
from disease and pests (thus requiring more toxic chemicals for “protection”),
water pollution, and higher susceptibility to drought.
Better land management :
Today's
agriculture relies on a process called monoculture, which involves planting huge
fields of a single plant breed. This practice is extremely dangerous, as
relying on a single breed causes the plants to become vulnerable to diseases that can
spread quickly from plant to plant. A single disease can wipe out an entire
industry of crop, which can cause food prices to spike. Nowadays most
fields feature a single crop, it’s difficult to make use of an entire mixed
field.
Sustainable farming places several crops on a single plot of land, usually by
combining tall, sun-loving plants with shorter, shade-loving plants. This
practice produces more food per acre and allows farmers to free up more land
for preservation purposes. Conventional industrial agriculture generally relies
upon a few primary crops, and chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides
to protect their plants that are more vulnerable to disease and pests. These
agricultural chemicals can be very toxic to people, wildlife, and pollinators.
Crop and animal production are generally separate, with animal waste requiring
disposal, and crops require their own fertilizers in these “efficient”
conventional agricultural systems.
A climate action :
Sustainable
agriculture systems employ many methods that conserve water, including the use
of mulching, drip irrigation, creating swales on contour that help to hold water high on the landscape and rechargeunderground water resources, planting crops that do not require as much water
such as an emphasis on perennial crops with deep roots. In contrast,
conventional industrial agriculture requires a great deal
of water for production, and the crops in such systems are generally vulnerable
to drought.
With
diverse systems that grow a variety of crops, an emphasis on those plants that
naturally require less water, and systems that have healthier
plants because of the presence of healthier soils, crops in sustainable systems
should have greater resilience than those in conventional systems. In addition,
when sustainable agriculture systems incorporate trees and other perennial
plants, along with free-range livestock grazing systems, agriculture can
actually become carbon sinks.
Livelihood development :
Sustainable
farming is easily decentralized and limits the impact of financial troubles to
a small percentage of its agriculture industry while local food production. By localizing
our food system, we reinvest our money in our communities, where it continues
to circulate within our local area to provide jobs for our community people.
We can solve this complex problem. Where today 925 million peopleare hungry, and experts say the number will grow as an additional 2 billion are
added to the global population by 2050. Science
is our solution, Individuals have to start believing in science again. Move past the scare tactics and twisted facts. Get educated,
Scientists have been modifying crops for many, many decades without push back
until recently. Companies
need to apply science from a local perspective. Really learn the agricultural
and cultural challenges on the ground all over the world. Don’t just import a solution from one region to another. Think
long-term and about different ways to do business – different buyers,
different ROIs, different partners. Xylem is doing this with its water pump that
addresses cultural, agricultural, and local economic factors in India We need
markets that work for everyone. Business
and government are going to have to be global here. Work
together to get the right policies in place to help everyone, not just someone.
Don’t
think this is just a developing country problem. People everywhere are hungry and malnourished. Take the US as an example – a place where many think we can’t
possibly have a problem. California is running out of water and farmers can’t grow crops. In 2013, 49.1 million Americans lived in food insecure
households, including 33.3 million adults and 15.8 million children. We need to solve this problem everywhere. we
@wormenvironmental solutions works
together with community to provide solutions on agricultural technology and
environmental conservation which will
enrich farmers with knowledge and training developing seeds, farming equipment,
and Ag.tech solutions, so we have enough food grown in a sustainable way to end
hunger. And no one should go to bed hungry.
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