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Sustainable agriculture seeks to assure a continued supply of food within the ecological, economic and social limits required to sustain production in the long term.
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# Global Change and Sustainable Development, Climate change — adaptation and mitigation, Ecological health and biodiversity, New risk and vulnerabilities, Sustainable land, agriculture and natural resources management, Green economy.
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* Sustainable agriculture – practice of farming using principles of ecology, the study of relationships between organisms and their environment.
* Sustainable agriculture – practice of farming using principles of ecology, the study of relationships between organisms and their environment.
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Together with Danone and Unilever, Nestlé founded in 2002 the Sustainable Agriculture Initiative ( SAI ) to promote sustainable agriculture in a comprehensive way.
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The Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change listed high-priority policy actions to address food security, including integrating food security and sustainable agriculture into global and national policies, significantly raising the level of global investment in food systems, and developing specific programs and policies to support the most vulnerable populations ( namely, those that are already subject to food insecurity ).
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Sustainable agriculture is the cultivation of plant materials in a manner that preserves plant and animal ecosystems over the long term.
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Sustainable agriculture is the practice of farming using principles of ecology, the study of relationships between organisms and their environment.
Sustainable agriculture in the United States was addressed by the 1990 farm bill.
Sustainable agriculture depends on replenishing the soil while minimizing the use of non-renewable resources, such as natural gas ( used in converting atmospheric nitrogen into synthetic fertilizer ), or mineral ores ( e. g., phosphate ).
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After the Earth Summit, Strong continued to take a leading role in implementing the results of agreements at the Earth Summit through establishment of the Earth Council, the Earth Charter movement, his Chairmanship of the World Resources Institute, Membership on the Board of the International Institute for Sustainable Development, the Stockholm Environment Institute, The Africa-America Institute, the Institute of Ecology in Indonesia, the Beijer Institute of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and others.
Local Works, ACT's campaign for the Sustainable Communities Bill however continued successfully and the legislation received Royal Assent on 27 October 2007.
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A recent study led by Miguel Gomez, a professor of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University and supported by the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future found that in many instances, the supermarket supply chain did much better in terms of food miles and fuel consumption for each pound compared to farmers markets.
Sustainable businesses with the supply chain try to balance all three through the triple-bottom-line concept — using sustainable development and sustainable distribution to affect the environment, business growth, and the society.
A recent study led by Professor Miguel Gomez ( Applied Economics and Management ), at Cornell University and supported by the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future found that in many instances, the supermarket supply chain did much better in terms of food miles and fuel consumption for each pound compared to farmers markets.
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SU received the Sustainability Innovator Award in 2007 from the Sustainable Endowments Institute for SU's pre-consumer food waste composting program and the Green Washington Award in 2008 from Washington CEO Magazine for SU's sustainable landscape practices and pre-consumer food waste composting program.
The Sustainable Endowments Institute gave the university a " B +" in its College Sustainability Report Card 2011, with A's for climate change and energy, food and recycling, student involvement, and transportation.
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In 2008 Sustainable Bungay became Suffolk's first Transition Town and part of a global network of communities that have started up projects in the areas of food, transport, energy, education, housing, waste, arts etc.
According to the proposal, the three broad objectives of the future CAP are: " Viable food production ", " Sustainable management of natural resources " and " Balanced territorial development ", which respond directly to the economic, environmental and territorial balance challenges identified in the Communication and which guide the proposed changes to the CAP instruments.
In addition to various student run organizations, including Sustainable Bowdoin and the Bowdoin Organic Garden, the college's dining service regularly uses local products and annually invites local farmers to campus to discuss how local food products are incorporated into the daily menu for students.
The Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change, as part of its recommendations for policy makers on achieving food security in the face of climate change, urged that sustainable agriculture must be integrated into national and international policy.
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As Chair, Jones was responsible for drawing up the Sustainable Food Strategy for London and chaired the Food Implementation Group overseeing the strategy More recently she also issued a report on the subject of food security in the capital.
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* Sustainable production of food and other agricultural products emphasising both strengthening sustainability in production systems at all levels of intensity and improving the conservation, sustainable use and enhancement of the diversity of all genetic resources for food and agriculture, especially plant and animal genetic resources, in all types of production systems
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It was conceived by Professor Tim Lang, at the Sustainable Agriculture Food and Environment ( SAFE ) Alliance and first appeared in print in a report “ The Food Miles Report: The dangers of long-distance food transport ”, researched and written by Angela Paxton.
For example, a DEFRA report in 2005 undertaken by researchers at AEA Technology Environment, entitled The Validity of Food Miles as an Indicator of Sustainable Development, included findings that " the direct environmental, social and economic costs of food transport are over £ 9 billion each year, and are dominated by congestion.
It was conceived by Professor Tim Lang, at the Sustainable Agriculture Food and Environment ( SAFE ) Alliance and first appeared in print in a report “ The Food Miles Report: The dangers of long-distance food transport.
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