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In September 2015, 193 world leaders agreed to 17 Global Goals for Sustainable Development. If these Goals are completed, it would mean an end to extreme poverty, inequality and climate change by 2030.
Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.

[New] To reduce greenhouse gases emissions and meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, Brazil will need to control deforestation induced by the expansion of the agricultural frontier in the Amazon, Cerrado and Pantanal biomes. / Frontiers
[New] Agreements create opportunities to increase U.S. agricultural sales internationally, stripping away barriers to trade, eliminating tariffs, opening markets and promoting investment and economic growth. / content
[New] Mission, conflict-driven hunger is expected to surge to record levels in 2021, with the World Food Program projecting an unprecedented need for food aid in 2021. / Lawfare
[New] At least 55% more water will be required by 2050 to meet the demand created by economic growth, urbanisation, and a global population of nearly ten billion people. / Eco-business
[New] China and the U.S. might actually agree on measures to strengthen G-20 and advance concerted action on public health, food security, climate change, the oceans, weather monitoring, and developing-country debt. / Brookings
[New] Global agricultural subsidies were around $1 trillion per year and could reach $2 trillion by 2030. / Reuters
[New] The global food system threatens more species than any other area of human endeavour, through habitat destruction to create new farmland; overexploitation of marine and terrestrial species; and agricultural pollution of freshwater and marine ecosystems. / Royal Society
[New] The Edge Control connects sensors, provides real-time monitoring and can automatically drive actuators - such as latching valves commonly used in agriculture - reducing production-related risks. / New Electronics
[New] Small-scale, subsistence agriculture traditionally underpins Nepal's rural economy, rendering many livelihoods at risk to climate-related disasters, further exacerbated by widespread poverty, low literacy and food insecurity. / Mott MacDonald
[New] As the effects of global warming worsen, human health, livelihood, food security, water supply, and economic growth will be jeopardized. / CQ Researcher by CQ Press
[New] Reducing drainage depths in agricultural peatlands by 50% could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by the equivalent of over 1% of global anthropogenic emissions. / Scimex
[New] As more Africans are beginning to live in urban areas, which is expected to double between now and 2050, urban farming helps integrate food growing into the fabric of urban life and destroy the notion that agriculture or farming only happens in rural areas. / Egyptian Streets
[New] Under Trump, the agriculture department announced its Agriculture Innovation Agenda, an initiative to stimulate innovation so that American agriculture can achieve the goal of increasing US agricultural production by 40% while cutting the environmental footprint of US agriculture in half by 2050. / Carbon Brief
[New] Climate change is a destabilizing force for the world, creating increased competition for resources and threatening millions with drought, hunger and displacement. / Space War
[New] The food security crisis in the United States has recently prompted the Biden administration to propose tens of billions of dollars of new federal assistance to American families at risk. / Council on Foreign Relations
[New] The challenge of food security will require leveraging advances in technology and demand policy innovation within the U.S. government and deep cooperation between the public and private sectors. / Council on Foreign Relations
[New] The partnership between Nokia and Claro will boost opportunities for the Chilean market to digitalise, expanding the possibility of automation in mining, as well as other industries such as energy, railways, utilities and agriculture. / International Mining
[New] Halving WTD e in all drained agricultural peatlands, for example, could reduce emissions by the equivalent of over 1% of global anthropogenic emissions. / Nature
[New] The United States Department of Agriculture announced Tuesday it would extend universal free lunch through the 2021-2022 school year, in an effort to reach more of the estimated 12 million youths experiencing food insecurity. / Kaiser Health News
Were current trajectories to continue, 13 Sub-Saharan countries would need at least 4-times their 2010 cropland by 2060: ~430 million hectares of additional cropland in total, comprising all remaining land suitable for agriculture in some countries. / Royal Society
Of the ~25,000 species that the IUCN has identified as threatened with extinction, 13,382 are threatened by agricultural land clearing and degradation alone. / Royal Society
NCCSP2 aims to address four major climate risks for Nepal: climate risks to infrastructure (resilience, loss and damage); quality and quantity of water; agricultural yield and food security; and biodiversity and natural resources. / Mott MacDonald
Climate change's toll on agriculture, disease and physical infrastructure, as well as redirected government spending, among other issues, could cause the global economy to lose $23 trillion, 10% of its value, by 2050. / TheHill

Last updated: 02 May 2021

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