TST Issues Brief: Sustainable Agriculture
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While significant progress has been made towards achieving the MDGs, critical environmental, social, economic and institutional challenges are still to be overcome. Two crucial connected challenges are: i) the persistently high levels of hunger and malnutrition (870 million people in 2010‐ 2012 [FAO, 2012a]) and– particularly in the rural areas of many developing countries – only slowly declining rates of poverty; and ii) an unsustainable and increasing burden of human activities on the earth’s carrying capacity. Greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), biodiversity loss, nitrogen and phosphorus overuse and ocean acidification have reached alarming levels. These, coupled with the decreasing availability of fresh water and increased land degradation and deforestation, as well as inadequate policies to respond to these issues, are undermining the livelihoods of ever growing numbers of people, especially those who live in extreme poverty.
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