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Sustainable agricultural development: Sustainable agricultural development is agricultural development that contributes to improving resource efficiency, strengthening resilience and securing social equity/responsibility of agriculture and food systems in order to ensure food security and nutrition for all, now and in the future (HLPE 2016: 29).
Introduction: Sustainable Agro-Food Production in SDG 2 “Zero Hunger”
One of the components of the sustainable development goal (SDG) 2 in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is to promote sustainable agriculture (Table 1). Other components of SDG2 (end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture) deal with zero hunger/food security and nutrition. There are strong linkages among the three components; sustainable agriculture is crucial to achieve food security and improved nutrition. The 2030 Agenda further explains what is meant by sustainable and...
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El Bilali, H. (2020). Sustainable Agro-food Production. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A.M., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P.G., Wall, T. (eds) Zero Hunger. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95675-6_52
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