Practices for Sustainable Environment
Environmental sustainability is the responsibility to conserve natural resources and protect global ecosystems to support health and wellbeing, now and in the future. It is important because of how much energy, food and human-made resources we use every day. Rapid population growth has resulted in increased farming and manufacturing, leading to more greenhouse gas emissions , unsustainable energy use, and deforestation. FAMILY FARMING The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) celebrates the UN Decade of Family Farming , calling it an “extraordinary opportunity” that allows steady progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals . According to FAO Director-General Graziano da Silva, “Family farming is crucial to sustainable development in many aspects, including the eradication of rural poverty, hunger and all forms of malnutrition, as well as in preserving natural resources and biodiversity,” Conceptual definition by the International Steering Committee Family Farming (...