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ARTICLE: Sustainable Ag Series: NGOs

The following is an excerpt of an article posted to the Dirt-to-Dinner website about how non-profits can work to help sustainable agriculture. 

What is sustainability? How do non-government organizations (NGOs), corporations, governments, farmers, and consumers address sustainability? And how does this affect you, your food, and the environment?

The term ‘sustainability’ is thrown around a lot…in the media, on corporate websites, in the government—even on D2D! The term is now used so frequently that it often has more than one interpretation.

We need to be asking smart questions about the balance between feeding the world’s population while still protecting the environment. How can our food be produced with the existing global farmland? How do we preserve our soil and our forests? Are there ways to use less water? How to keep our water clean? How about fewer chemicals? What about encouraging biodiversity? Do we always consider animal welfare? How about child labor in parts of the developing world?

At Dirt to Dinner, sustainability means protecting our global environmental and human resources for future generations while still providing for today’s population. Agricultural sustainability initiatives can address clean water, ocean health, deforestation, forest health, soil health, global hunger, food waste, human rights, child labor, and general ethical practices. As you can see, sustainability can wear many different hats. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In a four-part series on sustainability, D2D will discuss agricultural sustainability and what this term means to NGOs, corporations, farmers, and governments… and how each piece of this puzzle effects consumers. Each organization is most effective when working together and relying on one another to facilitate and execute sustainable objectives. In the first installment of this series, we are putting NGOs under the microscope and investigating how they address agricultural sustainability.

To read the rest of the article, please visit the Dirt-to-Dinner website