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Achievement of Sustainable Development Goals critically depends on wellfunctioning food systems which can provide sufficient and healthy food for all in an environmentally sustainable, economically viable and socially equitable manner. However, current food systems are failing on all of these...
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of the agriculture sector, including the potentially contradictory signals policies may send. It considers impacts for … impacts of land use choice. Beyond this, policies can also affect agriculture’s environmental performance by stimulating (or …
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) highlights the importance of reaching net-zero CO2 emissions globally by 2050. Unlocking the potential of natural climate solutions in the strive for net-zero emissions is increasingly gaining attention. A large potential may arise from the...
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argument supposes that agriculture is environmentally benign or even ameliorative. A more fearsome fallacy may not exist …. Agriculture is one of the most resource-depleting economic activities and deserves to be treated accordingly. The microecological … variation on agroecological reasoning favors improving agriculture's environmental performance by reducing farm sizes and …
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This study analyzes the water footprint profiles of quinoa production in Bolivia, an emblematic crop that faces significant challenges in terms of yield and sustainability. The Total Water Footprint (WH) of quinoa estimated for the Southern Altiplano region of Bolivia is approximately 1,728...
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years 2014-2020 in the context of its potential influence on environmental pressure of agriculture. The final solutions of … directed to the support for sustainable agriculture development. …
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The membership in the European Union (EU) created favourable conditions for the implementation of the agri-environmental programme (AEP) in Poland. The AEP is the most important rural development measure in the UE (in terms of financial support). The goal of the paper is to assess the...
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, and increasingly rich, population are to be met. This requires the further expansion of modern agriculture, but modern … agriculture rests on a small number of highly productive crops and its expansion has led to a significant loss of global … agriculture, with a focus on how the loss of biodiversity affects food production. We employ a quantitative, structurally …
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The objective is to provide a systematization of concepts connected with sustainable development of agriculture (SDA …) as the basis for indication of directions of changes in Polish agriculture. The author applied descriptive and … agricultural production, which would bring positive and negative environmental consequences. The multifunctional agriculture cannot …
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. The assessment of agriculture in the context of the farms’ organization allows to determine whether the present profile of … seems especially important from this perspective is highlighting the changes in agriculture over the years, in the context … agriculture in Poland relevant to soil ecosystem services. The study was based on public data of 2005, 2007, 2016 from the …
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