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The role of agricultural systems in Sustainable Development Goals. Benefits and threats

Agriculture systems are key to ensure food production and security, essential for nations safety. There is a need to produce food for a growing population. However, agriculture intensification is one of the major causes of biodiversity loss and climate change, two of the main challenges of our times. As consequence of the current global crises that involve environmental issues linked to biodiversity loss and climate change (e.g., poverty, resources overexploitation, pollution, urbanization), United Nations developed a set of 17 sustainable development goals (SDG’s) revert this situation and improve wellbeing. Agriculture is key to full fi eld several SDG’s such as goal 1 (No Poverty) and goal 1 (Zero Hunger). Without productive agricultural systems it is not possible to achieve these SDG’s. Nevertheless, at the same time we need to rethink the current agriculture intensive practices that are damaging dramatically the ecosystems and the services they supply (e.g., air quality, flood regulation, climate regulation, water purification, carbon sequestration, pollination). The ambition to feed the world using agriculture intensifi cation practices is exhausting the resources (e.g., water, soil), damaging the biodiversity and increasing drastically climate change. This hampers the capacity to achieve other SDG’s such as goal 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation), goal 13 (Climate Action), goal 14 (Life Bellow Water) and goal 15 (Life Bellow Water). To mention some of the most aff ected. Feed the world needs to be rethought. In this presentation we will discuss critically the benefits and threats of the current agriculture systems.

agriculture systems ; sustainable development goals ; biodiversity loss ; climate change ; ecosystem services

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