Geography 1500F/G Study Guide - Final Guide: Food Sovereignty, Intensive Farming, Organic Farming
17 Dec 2018
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Countries organized their economies around a competitive export-oriented agricultural sector (mainly monocultures). But also brings economic, environmental & social problems. Public health, ecosystem integrity, food quality disruption of traditional rural livelihoods. Industrial agriculture and globalization emphasis on export crops, lately transgenic crops, and with the rapid expansion of biofuel crops (sugar cane, maize, soybean, oil palm, eucalyptus, etc. ) Changing climate large and far-reaching effects on crop productivity in tropical zones. The "green revolution", is proved to be unsustainable as it damaged the environment. Favored wealthier farmers left many poor farmers. The new green revolution proposed for africa via the multi-institutional alliance for a green revolution in. Africa (agra) appears destined to repeat the tragic. The concepts of food sovereignty and ecologically based production systems. Goal: enhance food security while conserving natural resources, biodiversity, and soil and water throughout hundreds of rural communities in several regions.
