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New models for sustainable agriculture

The complexity of the agricultural system requires considering a significant number of variables that, directly and indirectly, affect the results of agricultural in terms efficiency an...

Beyond GMOs

Greater awareness of the environmental impact of agri culture is increasing interest in more sustainable agro-food models....

2011 Double Pyramid

The publication of the Double Pyramid paper in June 2010 sent out the first strong signal of how important it was to pay attention to food choices, not only with regard to health, but a...

Water Economy

In the near future, partly because of global warming and pollution, the amount of freshwater available to humanity may not be sufficient to meet the growing demand. If the trend of demo...

Is GMO agriculture sustainable?

Transgenic crops and the problems of access to food, the environment and health. BCFN will answer to what extent the extraordinary advances in science, that in the last decades have en...

Double Pyramid: healthy food for people

Food that is healthy for people and sustainable for the planet. People have been aware for some time that good diet is essential for good health. In 1992 the U.S. Department of Agricu...

Climate Change, Agriculture & Food

Agriculture and climate change are characterized by a complex relationship. Agriculture produces a large amount of greenhouse gases, the main cause of climate change. However, at the sa...

Water Management

Although renewable, water is a scarce resource. As the World Bank has noted, we can contain it, divert it, collect it, purify it, package it, transport it and transform it, but we canno...

ARTICOLI E VIDEOARTICOLI E VIDEO

A difficult transition - Hans Herren, President Millennium Institute

 

Mr Herren, which are the challenges to face for a sustainable agriculture now and in the future? What are the current problems? 

The major agricultural problems concern several aspects: the adaptation to climate change; the production of sufficient amounts of varied food at affordable prices and quality food and fodder production; farm sustainability and farmers’ profit; the increasing competition from biofuel; the increase in fossil fuel prices and the growing scarcity of fossil fuels.

 

Healthy Food, Healthy Planet

The official launch of the Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition in the United States encourages debate about food production models that are sustainable for the environment.

The Sustainable Diet costs even less to the families

In a study conducted by BCFN, was estimated as 30% of the ecological footprint of a country like Italy is connected to the chain of production and the consumption of food.

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SCENARIOSCENARIO

“When the last tree has been cut, the last river poisoned, the last fish caught, you will discover that you .....

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QUICK FACTSQUICK FACTS

La calotta glaciale artica si è ridotta del 20% rispetto ai valori del 1979.

One person in six disposes of fewer than 20 liters of fresh water daily (minimum standard defined by the UN).

Il settore agricolo è responsabile del 70% dei consumi di acqua dolce

Per l’UNESCO tecniche d’irrigazione più efficienti potrebbero portare ad un incremento del prelievo idrico per l’irrigazione (+14%) inferiore rispetto all’incremento delle superfici irrigate (+34%).

Gli anni compresi tra il 1997 e il 2008 si collocano tra i più caldi mai registrati da quando si dispone di misure globali della temperatura (1850)

Starting in the Eighties, the temperature of the permafrost area in the arctic zone increased up to 3°C, with a reduction of the snow cover of 5%



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