Sustainable development goal 2: Improved targets and indicators for agriculture and food security

Application of genome sequencing for sustainable agriculture and food security

Plant genetics, sustainable agriculture and global food security.

The United States and the world face serious societal challenges in the areas of food, environment, energy, and health. Historically, advances in plant genetics have provided new knowledge and technologies needed to address these challenges. Plant genetics remains a key component of global food security, peace, and prosperity for the foreseeable future. Millions of lives depend upon the extent ...

Cultivated Capital: Agriculture, Food Systems, and Sustainable Development

Urban Agriculture and Sustainable Development

The paper provides an updated insight on the role that urban agriculture can play in pursuing the Millennium Development Goals and more specifically MDG 1 and 7, related to poverty reduction, food security, and environmental sustainability. Reference is made to urban agriculture in relation to the recent and important issues affecting the world economy and the environment, regarding climate cha...

The role of South–South and triangular cooperation for sustainable agriculture development and food security in developing countries

With South–South economic cooperation on the rise, there are many opportunities for developing countries to benefit from the experiences of their more successful counterparts in the developing world through enhanced trade and investment links and knowledge transfer. Since 2005, rising international demand for food products, the diversion of some food crops to biofuel production, and excessive s...