Category: Zero Hunger and Sustainable Agriculture

objective 2. End hunger, Achieving food security and improved nutrition and promoting sustainable agriculture

2.1 Until 2030, ending hunger and ensuring access for all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations., including children, to safe food, nutritious and sufficient throughout the year

2.2 Until 2030, end all forms of malnutrition, including hit, until 2025, the internationally agreed targets on stunting and cachexia in children under five years of age, and meet the nutritional needs of adolescents., pregnant and nursing women and elderly people

2.3 Until 2030, doubling agricultural productivity and income of small food producers, particularly women, Indian people, family farmers, shepherds and fishermen, including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets and non-agricultural employment and value addition opportunities

2.4 Until 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices, that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen the capacity to adapt to climate change, to extreme weather conditions, dry, floods and other disasters, and that progressively improve the quality of land and soil

2.5 Until 2020, maintain genetic diversity of seeds, cultivated plants, farmed and domesticated animals and their respective wild species, including through diversified and well-managed seed and plant banks at the national level, regional and international, and ensure access and fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the use of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge, as internationally agreed

2.to increase investment, including via the strengthening of international cooperation, in rural infrastructure, research and extension of agricultural services, technology development, and plant and animal gene banks, to increase agricultural production capacity in developing countries, particularly in less developed countries

2.b Correct and prevent trade restrictions and distortions in world agricultural markets, including the parallel elimination of all forms of export subsidies and all export measures with equivalent effect., in line with the mandate of the Doha Development Round

2.c Adopt measures to ensure the proper functioning of food commodity markets and their derivatives, and facilitate timely access to market information., including food reserves, in order to help limit extreme food price volatility

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Non-Agricultural Environmental Sustainability: The Path to Greener Food

The Commitment to Sustainability in Agribusiness Brazilian agribusiness, marked by its notable growth in recent decades, faces growing demand for sustainable production, embracing the principles of ESG pillars (Environment, Social and Governance). In this text, the environmental aspect of this commitment will be addressed, leaving the topics “Social” e “Governance” for future discussions. The current […]

Sustainable Agriculture – Agricultural Crop Rotation

Sustainable agriculture is an agricultural model that aims to meet current needs for food production, fiber and energy, without compromising the ability of future generations to produce in the same way. This model aims to preserve natural resources, such as soil, water and biodiversity, in addition to ensuring food security, the Justice […]

Bonsucro Production Standard updates

Starting with the introduction Recently, in the month of March 2022, the Bonsucro certification system provided training on the technical parameters of the Bonsucro Production standard version 5.1 of your publication. Bonsucro understands that learning and development are fundamental to a learning organization. That way, Bonsucro encourages its members, […]

Circular Economy in Agriculture

Circular economy in agriculture According to French scientist Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794) circular economy in agriculture: “circular economy in agriculture, circular economy in agriculture, circular economy in agriculture”, circular economy in agriculture. A more sustainable production system that minimizes environmental impacts is the system […]

Carbon credit, from its origin to its actuality.

The carbon credit is the currency used in the carbon market, working so that Emissions Trading helps in negotiations between countries that have exceeded their targets and countries that have not managed to reach them proposed in the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement. By indirectly helping to maintain the reduction project and […]

Knowing REDD AND REDD+

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Webinar: New RTRS Conversion Factor System and Soy Footprint Calculator

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Public consultation for the Bonsucro Production Standard is open

Bonsucro is a worldwide non-profit organization, formed by a team of multi-stakeholders and aims to reduce the environmental and social impacts of sugarcane production, also taking into account the need for economic viability. For a product or process to be linked to Bonsucro, it must be certified by an organization […]

What is Natural Capital? Prioritizing it can benefit your business

Any business depends on nature to succeed. It is the obvious case of industries and other segments that use natural resources as raw material, and not so obvious, as in the case of the third sector. The relationship is not always clear, apparently financial institutions and offices rely less on natural capital (means) but, even so, use paper […]

Forest inventory and youth training: legacy of the Rio Doce basin

Inventário e Formação de Jovens: Investing in a green and sustainable way with Bonds

The impact of the disaster in Mariana in November 2015 remains present in the lives of people directly or indirectly affected. 39 municipalities along the Rio Doce and its tributaries. But it's also true that another story begins to be built. A story that doesn't want to erase the past, but build a future […]

Research develops organic fertilizer from plant biomass

A project that will make Bento Gonçalves a national reference

Produced from aboveground biomass (part of the plant that sticks out of the ground) of legume species, N-green is a nitrogen-rich plant organic fertilizer (N) and easy to apply. “It has the essential nutrients for plants: match, potassium, calcium, magnesium, sulfur; and micronutrients, like boron, ferro, manganese, molybdenum and zinc", […]

World's Largest Rooftop Farm Produces 10 me from organics per year

Created by Gotham Greens in 2015, the largest one-building rooftop farm in the world, is situated on top of a sustainable cosmetics factory, in the Pullman neighborhood, in Chicago. occupying a space of 7 thousand square meters, your annual harvest is almost 10 millions of all-organic vegetables and herbs, […]

to FAO, bioeconomy can feed the world and save the planet

The economy based on the cultivation and use of biomass can help fight climate change and pollution, said the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) last month (20), during Global Dome of Bioeconomy. The event held in Berlin discussed alternatives for using organic materials for production […]

Event in Brasilia launches new phase of program for agricultural development in the Northeast

The International Fund for Agricultural Development and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture met at the beginning of the month in Brasilia with authorities and representatives of civil society to launch the Semear Internacional Program.. The program — whose official name is “Training for management based on results and continuous improvement of innovations in […]

environmental certification: why suit and what are its benefits

Social criteria are fundamental components in certifications of 14001

Why adapt to environmental standards? Organizations of all types are increasingly concerned with achieving and demonstrating correct environmental performance, controlling the impact of your activities, products or services in the environment, taking into account policies and objectives defined by environmental certification bodies. This behavior is inserted in the context of […]

Cut and Burn: Alternative tools to the use of fire in agriculture

Slash and Burn Agriculture “Slash-and-burn agriculture has been practiced for thousands of years in the planet's forested areas, mainly in tropical regions. Its practice involves a range of techniques that denote its diversified and itinerant character., taking advantage of the energy capital of the forest in recovery. Muitos estudos atestam a sustentabilidade desses sistemas […]

Young people can guarantee sustainable future of agriculture

FAO report highlights youth's potential for economic growth linked to agriculture According to the most recent report published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), The World State of Agriculture and Food 2017 (SOFA, in the acronym in english) it is necessary to ensure a mechanism for young people to remain in the countryside. The current projections […]

Emissions grow in the country for the second consecutive year; agricultural sector leads

Agricultural activity responded by shocking 74% of the country's emissions, and the deforestation caused by this activity, by myself, answered by 51% of the total national emissions. Brazilian emissions of greenhouse gases rose 8,9% last year driven by increased deforestation. With that they arrived at 2,28 billions of gross tons […]

The search for mechanisms to face climate change in agriculture

Latin America and the Caribbean are one of the richest regions in the world in natural resources. Gaskets, have 23% of land with crop potential, receive 29% of the precipitations of the planet and has seven of the 25 places in the world with the highest concentrations of endemic species. On the other hand, the region also has […]

Sustainable Agriculture: from problem to solution

The role of a more friendly and efficient food production with the whole will be highlighted here., sustainable agriculture, and from this premise, highlight all the problems that can be resolved if we take appropriate measures to preserve all forms of life on earth. "The challenge, Nonetheless, It's simple. Some biofuels certification systems offer documents with practical guidelines for carrying out an Environmental and Social Impact Assessment. […]

Meet the new ones 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals

The Sustainable Development Goals must be implemented by all countries in the world during the next 15 years old, until 2030 More of 150 world leaders gathered at UN headquarters, in New York, to formally adopt a new sustainable development agenda. Agenda is made up of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (or ODS), that […]

It is possible to change the world, and agroecology is the answer

A documentary of 15 minutos intitulado “Vida em Sintropia” mostra os princípios agroflorestais usados por Ernest Gotsch na recuperação de sistemas degradados. Trabalhando em parceria com a Fazenda da Toca que produz orgânicos em larga escala, Gotsch and Pedro Paulo Diniz have shown the world that agroecology is a secure future for humanity. Pedro […]

The European Union, the policy and standards

The European Union The European Union is a unique economic and political union, constituted by 28 European countries that, together, cover a large part of the European continent. The EU was created right after World War II. The initial intention was to encourage economic cooperation, assuming that if countries had […]

ISO 14001: What are the updates to the standard?

At ISO 14001 is a standard that defines the requirements to implement an environmental management system, helping companies to achieve long-term success by managing their environmental aspects and impacts and creating alternatives to contribute to sustainable development.. Key objectives of an ISO environmental management system 14001:15 Definir uma estrutura para […]