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1A SARE SAMPLER OF SUSTAINABLE PRACTICESwwwsareorgSUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION SARE2 WHAT IS SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTUREwwwsareorgEvery day farmers and ranchers around the world develo. Ms. . Divya. Mohan. Associate Fellow. Earth . Sceince. and Climate Change Division. The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). Agriculture and Climate Change. Agriculture contributes to climate change through GHG emissions. Tim Benton. UK Champion for Global Food . Security & Professor of Ecology, University of Leeds. tim.benton@foodsecurity.ac.uk. Management of a piece of land impacts on multiple “currencies”. Carbon. A module of the Globalizing Agriculture Education Project. Module Learning Outcomes . To be able to describe several critical environmental issues related to global agricultural sustainability . To be able to explain and apply these issues in a site-specific context using . By . Miguel . Veiga-PEsTANA. VP Global EXTERNAL AFFAIRS. INFORMAL EU AGRICULTURAL MINISTERS MEETING, HORSENS DENMARK, 3-5 JUNE 2012. You may not know us, but you may know our brands. .... Present in half the households on the planet. Structure of Agriculture. Since 2004: . less than . 1%. of the USA population were farmers; . 1920. : 30%; in . 1787. : 90. %. 17%. of the total labor force work in food-related industries. 23 million. the role of research. Purdue University visiting ILVO. 13/05/2016. Veerle Van linden. Sustainable agriculture. the role of research. Arkansas . University visiting ILVO. 18/05/2016. Veerle Van linden. Platform’s. . sustainability. . activities. in the . Dairy. . Sector. Why SAI Platform? (1/2). 2. “Sustainability is becoming a business imperative; doing nothing is no longer an option. It is about securing your business for the future.”. keep . producing food in a way that not only conserves, but renews our natural resources, while it improves nutrition and health outcome for the world’s increasing population” . (McCann, 2017).. Agriculture Unit 5 Agriculture Importance of Agriculture Everyone dependent on food Agriculture occupies more land area than any other econ activity Agriculture employs 45% - almost half of world’s labor (in Africa and Asia over 50% are farmers) NACDEP Annual Conference, June 11, 2018 . Cleveland, Ohio. Walt Whitmer, Project Coordinator, Co-PI. Kathy . Brasier. , Professor of Rural Sociology, PI. Weston Eaton, Assistant Research Professor, Co-PI . This file has been issued by the foundation for Sustainability in the food ChainIn fteen companiesactive in the food chain in The Netherlands have ini-tiated the Foundation for a Sustainable Food Chai National Capacity Building Workshop for Sustainable and Inclusive Vedant S Goyal Urban Transport Advisor GIZ-SUTP Delhi India Humansloveto move travel discoverby different ways and modesImagine China Olanrewaju Smith. International Trypanotolerance Centre, Banjul The Gambia. Natural resource management, food security, biofuels and sustainable agriculture. Raise some questions & discussion points . UNION CAPITAL CITIES, THEIR COMPERATIVE . ANALYSIS AND SOURCES OF FINANCING . SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS . BY LOCAL GOVERMENTS. Ewelina Pałucka. associate professor. Univeristy. of Ecology and Management in Warsaw.