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UN Sustainable Development Goals

GOAL 2: Zero Hunger

Description

Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to live in the cities. While humans started gathering grains at least 105,000 years ago, nascent farmers only began planting them around 11,500 years ago. Sheep, goats, pigs, and cattle were domesticated around 10,000 years ago. Plants were independently cultivated in at least 11 regions of the world. In the 20th century, industrial agriculture based on large-scale monocultures came to dominate agricultural output.

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Organizations relating to Agriculture

Global Partnership for Oceans / Est. 2012
International Council for Sustainable Agriculture / Lehrte, Germany
International Organisation of Agro-Industrial Trade Unions / Moscow, Russia
International Association of Fishing Industry Workers' Unions / Moscow, Russia
Arab Agricultural Engineers Union / Damascus, Syrian AR
Caribbean Agro-Economic Society / St Augustine, Trinidad-Tobago / Est. 1974
Federation of African Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Agriculture and Professions / Cairo, Egypt / Est. 2005
Organización del Sector Pesquero y Acuicola del Istmo Centroamericano, Panama / La Libertad, El Salvador
Balkan Federation of Apicultural Associations / Bucharest, Romania
International Network for Information Technology in Agriculture / Bonn, Germany
African Agricultural Technology Foundation / Nairobi, Kenya / Est. 2003
Pan African Agribusiness and Agro-Industry Consortium / Nairobi, Kenya / Est. 2007
International Society for Sustainable Development and Agriculture / Est. 2007
South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation / Wellington, New Zealand
Agri-Food Chain Coalition
Intergovernmental Sub-Group on Hides and Skins
Regional Cooperative Program for the Technological Development and Modernization of Coffee Cultivation in Central America, Panama, Dominican Rep and Jamaica / Guatemala, Guatemala
Eastern Caribbean Institute of Agriculture and Forestry / Arima, Trinidad-Tobago / Est. 1954
Club of Bologna / Rome, Italy / Est. 1988
UNECE Committee on Forests and the Forest Industry / Geneva, Switzerland / Est. 1947
Programa Cooperativo para el Desarrollo Tecnológico Agroalimentario y Agroindustrial del Cono Sur / Montevideo, Uruguay / Est. 1980
International Buckskin Horse Association / Shelby IN, USA / Est. 1971
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture / Ibadan, Nigeria / Est. 1967
Caribbean Fisheries Training and Development Institute / Chaguaramas, Trinidad-Tobago / Est. 1974
Arab Economic and Social Council / Cairo, Egypt / Est. 1950
Institute for Research, Extension and Training in Agriculture / Apia, Samoa / Est. 1980
Collaborative Partnership on Forests / New York NY, USA / Est. 1995
European Forest Genetic Resources Programme / Barcelona, Spain / Est. 1994
FAO-ICARDA International Technical Cooperation Network on Cactus / Santiago, Chile / Est. 1993
Regional Fisheries Committee for the Gulf of Guinea / Libreville, Gabon / Est. 1984
Internationale Raiffeisen Union e.V. / Bonn, Germany / Est. 1968
Collaborative Intergovernmental Scientific Research Institute / Novara, Italy / Est. 2000
Arab Centre for the Studies of Arid Zones and Dry Lands / Damascus, Syrian AR / Est. 1968
Forest Invasive Species Network for Africa / Zomba, Malawi / Est. 2004
Alliance for Commodity Trade in Eastern and Southern Africa / Lusaka, Zambia / Est. 2008
European Feed and Food Ingredients Safety Certification / Brussels, Belgium
Association of International Research and Development Centers for Agriculture / Tainan, Taiwan / Est. 2012
United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries / Geneva, Switzerland / Est. 2008
ASEAN Working Group on Social Forestry / Jakarta, Indonesia
Centre for Coordination of Agricultural Research and Development for Southern Africa / Gaborone, Botswana / Est. 2011
Mediterranean Advisory Council / Rome, Italy
Livestock Environmental Assessment and Performance Partnership / Rome, Italy / Est. 2012
European Forest Institute Mediterranean Facility / Barcelona, Spain / Est. 2007
Forest Carbon Partnership Facility / Washington DC, USA
International Family Forestry Alliance / Brussels, Belgium / Est. 2002
Social Agriculture Network / San José, Costa Rica / Est. 1991
Perlite Institute / Harrisburg PA, USA / Est. 1949
Platform for African - European Partnership on Agricultural Research for Development / Accra, Ghana
Organic Trade Association / Washington DC, USA / Est. 1984
European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism Trade Unions / Brussels, Belgium / Est. 2001

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World Problems relating to Agriculture

From the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential

Distant agricultural services
Gap in agricultural technology among countries
Declining breeds of cultivated plants
Monopolization of agricultural genetic resources
Stagnated development of agricultural production
Unsustainable agricultural development
Unsustainable short-term improvements in agricultural productivity
Intensive farming
Underutilized agricultural wastes
Health hazards of air pollution for plants
Lack of skilled manpower in rural areas
Loss of agricultural biodiversity
Harmful carbon dioxide impact on agriculture
Protectionism in agriculture and the food production industries
Agricultural overproduction
Misuse of agricultural chemicals
Exploitative agribusiness
Misuse of tropical rain forests for agricultural development
Counter-productive agricultural subsidies
Distortion of international trade by discriminatory formulation of health and sanitary regulations for agricultural and pharmaceutical products
Degradation of agricultural land by cash crops
Seasonal fluctuations in food production
Inadequate farm crop diversity
Inappropriate agricultural subsidies for chemicalized farming
Blackleg

Action Strategies relating to Agriculture

From the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential

Increasing crop diversity
Researching sustainable agriculture
Monitoring farming production
Informing on agricultural developments
Recycling agricultural waste
Funding small scale farming
Using biological pest control
Promoting sustainable agriculture
Investigating interaction between agriculture and environment
Promoting study of rural social sciences
Reducing dependence of agricultural systems on fossil fuels
Improving availability of agricultural inputs
Strengthening legal status of plant genetic resources for agriculture
Expanding capacity of research centres for sustainable agricultural production
Reviewing agricultural policies
Controlling agricultural chemicals
Increasing efficiency of symbiotic processes for sustainable agriculture production
Improving integrated agricultural extension services
Developing nuclear methods in agriculture
Using residue management agriculture
Assessing prospects for economic integration of agricultural resource activities
Promoting biointensive agriculture
Addressing problems of cultivation of marginal agricultural land
Demonstrating benefits of integrated pest management in agriculture
Ensuring public participation for sustainable agriculture

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