Farming/agriculture
To have sustainable agriculture, sustainable management of the system that the farmer uses needs to be implemented. Management provides the tools, knowledge of the progress, the goals, and organization that sustainable agriculture needs to be sustainable. Keeping track of what the system is providing and consuming is important, so that the management can improve the sustainable efforts in the system. Sustainable management of agriculture means that the system that is being managed is sustainable in all respects. Production should be model after natural systems, instead of using human made systems that have been pushed on the Earth that are not sustainable.
In a natural system the Earth uses the waste of one system, and then turns it into the consuming part of another system. This is important to try to model in sustainable management of agriculture, because it would decrease in the amount of resources needed, and decrease the amount of money spent on removing and deposing of waste. Not only does an agriculture system need to protect the resources and environment, but it also needs to be able to compete in the market. Agriculture can model natural systems to provide a system that is competitive in the indefinite long run, instead of stripping the land of its resources and making it unusable in the future. Agriculture that tries to produce its product at the maximum yield will strip soil resources until the land is void and unable to produce. This would be an example of how sustainable management is not in practice, because the system will fail, and because it fails, it would have a negative impact on the people that rely on that product for work, food, and local economy. Sustainable management of agriculture should include the sustainable management of the people that work on the systems. Fair trade is an example of how the world is trying to produce sustainable management of local farmers in third world countries. Slow food is another movement that is trying to promote sustainable management by marketing the production of farms products to the people that live locally. Slow food provides fresher, cheaper, superior, and taster products, because they are sold directly to the public by the farmer. The farmer saves money by not spending it on shipping and transportation of their products.
Sustainable management of farms provide solutions to problems that are not sustainable in the areas of the people that buy the product, people that make the product, and the environment.
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