Approaches to food production and distribution that maintain ecological balance while meeting nutritional needs.
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Agricultural development encompasses strategies to improve agricultural productivity and sustainability, enhancing food security and livelihoods, particularly in developing countries.
Agricultural extension is the process of providing advisory services to farmers to improve agricultural productivity, livelihoods, and sustainability.
Agricultural policy encompasses the laws, regulations, and actions governments undertake to influence agricultural production, distribution, and markets.
Agroecology is a holistic, integrated approach to agriculture that applies ecological principles to farming systems, seeking sustainability and resilience.
Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) is an approach that helps to guide actions needed to transform and reorient agricultural systems to effectively support development and ensure food security in a changing climate.
Digital agriculture leverages digital technologies to improve agricultural productivity, efficiency, and sustainability.
Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social, and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.
Food sovereignty is the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems.
A food system encompasses all the processes and infrastructure involved in feeding a population: growing, harvesting, processing, packaging, transporting, marketing, consuming, and disposing of food and food-related items.
Land degradation is the reduction or loss of the biological or economic productivity and complexity of rainfed cropland, irrigated cropland, or range, pasture, forest and woodlands.
Land use planning is the systematic assessment of land and water potential, alternatives for land use, and economic and social conditions to select and adopt the best land-use options.
Malnutrition is a condition resulting from deficiencies, excesses, or imbalances in a person's intake of energy and/or nutrients.
Nutrition security exists when all people at all times have physical, social, and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.
Smart Agriculture leverages advanced digital technologies, particularly IoT and AI, to create connected farming systems that optimize agricultural processes, enhance productivity, and promote sustainability.
Sustainable agriculture is farming practices that meet current food and textile needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
Sustainable Land Management (SLM) is a holistic approach to managing land resources for long-term environmental and human well-being.