Sustainable agriculture It has been defined as "an integrated system of plant and animal production practices having a site-specific application that will last over the long term"
Sustainable agriculture has a major role to play in responding to climate change. While temperature rises pose a real threat to global food production.
Sustainability and adapting agriculture to climate change
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Sustainability and Adapting agriculture to climate
change
Presented by
Dr. Waleed Fouad Abobatta
Horticulture Research Institute
Agriculture Research Center
waleed@hortinstitute.com
2015
2. Sustainable agriculture has a major role to play in responding
to climate change. While temperature rises pose a real threat to
global food production.
Sustainable agriculture It has been defined as "an integrated
system of plant and animal production practices having a site-
specific application that will last over the long term"
Climate change is a serious and urgent issue in the world today,
already Agriculture is suffering from the impacts of climate
change, many areas are currently facing of global warming,
Carbon emission, drought and Desertification .
11. • Economic development.
• Social development.
• Environmental protection.
2- The pillars of sustainable
development
These pillars are Interdependent and mutually reinforcing.
(The United Nations, 2005 World Summit)
12. 3- Another representation of sustainability showing how
both economy and society are constrained by
environmental limits
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