Occupying more than a third of the Earth’s land surface, agriculture is a massive industry with key implications not only for diets but also livelihoods, cultures and health. Yet they way we produce food is intricately tied with a wide array of environmental problems, from deforestation to pollution and beyond. There’s growing recognition of the need to change our food systems, but how do we begin to solve such a complicated puzzle? Here’s a selection Landscape News articles to shed light on how to move forward.
We want you to share Landscapes News content, which is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This means you are free to redistribute our material for non-commercial purposes. All we ask is that you give Landscapes News appropriate credit and link to the original Landscapes News content, indicate if changes were made, and distribute your contributions under the same Creative Commons license. You must notify Landscapes News if you repost, reprint or reuse our materials by contacting G[dot]Lipton[at]cgiar.org.
Farming and ranching remain the main drivers of deforestation in Brazil, a new study from the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) has found. But any new government policy to combat the ...