Sustainable Agriculture
The exponential population increase in recent decades has increased the practice of agricultural land conversion to meet demand for food which in turn has increased the effects on the environment. The global population is still increasing and will eventually stabilise, as some critics doubt that food production, due to lower yields from global warming, can support the global population.
Organic farming is a multifaceted sustainable agriculture set of practices that can have a lower impact on the environment
Other specific methods include: permaculture; and biodynamic agriculture which incorporating a spiritual element.
- Category: Sustainable agriculture
- Biological pest control
Read more about this topic: Environmental Issues With Agriculture
Famous quotes containing the word agriculture:
“But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build towns. Agriculture therefore was a religious injunction, because of the perils of the state from nomadism.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)