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Agriculture "The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself." - Franklin Delano Roosevelt"
Agriculture is the primary historical transformer of our global environment. The central role of agriculture in the lives of the majority of the world’s peoples cannot be underestimated. Changing our current energy-intensive agricultural systems to more sustainable forms that draw upon old and new understandings of agroecology, among other things, offers great hope to help resolve interrelated crises of food security, climate change, and environmental degradation. At Action 2030 we are actively promoting discussion amongst a wide range of actors interested in agriculture’s future to help create innovative policy solutions. In March 2010, Action2030 co-organized the International Workshop on Sustainable Food and Agriculture in Beijing. The goal of this three-day event was to expand understanding of the global problems and challenges of our current industrial food and agriculture system and to promote unique and unusual broad-ranging conversations on current trends and potential pathways for more environmentally sustainable and socially sound food and agricultural systems. While there was general agreement on these broad goals, participants brought to the discussions a wide range of approaches and interests, with diverse framings of both the problems and potential solutions, which included suggestions for practical methods as well as policy ideas. To receive information and updates on this or future similar events please join our Sustainable Food and Agriculture Mailing List. Related Briefs:
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Highlights: Market: The International Agriculture Trade Research Consortium Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research European council of young farmers Ministry of Agriculture of the People’s Republic of China Chinese: The Center for Food Safety National Organic Coalition |
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