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 Posted: Fri 22:33, 30 Aug 2013 Post subject: smart agriculture to eradicate world hunger |
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smart agriculture to eradicate world hunger,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
Adopting "climate-smart" agricultural practises would be key to eradicate hunger from the world, a UN body has said.
Climate smart agricultural practises could address the twin problems of food security and climate change,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], FAO (Food and Agricultural Organisation) Director-General Jacques Diouf said.
climate smart,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], we mean agriculture that sustainably increases productivity and resilience to environmental pressures,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], while at the same time reduces greenhouse gas emissions or removes them from the atmosphere,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], because we cannot ignore the fact that agriculture is itself a large emitter of greenhouse gases, he said.
Drawing gloomy picture,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], he said the world's population is expected to surpass 9 billion people by 2050, which will require an estimated 70 per cent increase in global agricultural production.
At the same time,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], climate change is expected to have multiple impacts on agricultural productivity and rural
incomes in areas that are already experiencing high levels of food insecurity,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the FAO DG added.
The FAO head stressed that a variety of climate-smart practices already exist and are being used in some places, providing examples that could be more widely implemented in developing countries,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], as highlighted in an FAO report prepared in advance of the Cancun conference.
He also stressed on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
and agro-forestry,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], sectors that hundreds of millions of rural people depend on for their livelihoods, also hold great potential for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], enhancing carbon sinks,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], stabilising rural livelihoods and strengthening household food security, added Mr. Diouf.
biophysical mitigation potential of forests is estimated at about 64 per cent of the emissions from forestry,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], while agriculture could provide an estimated technical mitigation potential that could reach 83-90 per cent of that sectors total emissions, he said.
The FAO chief referred to developed countries offsetting their own emissions by investing in projects in the developing world.
The term is used to describe efforts to move this beyond just deforestation and forest degradation and include conservation, sustainable forest management of forests,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in such exchanges.
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