for hundreds of years, agriculture has been the activity most important to human survival and well-being. In many cases of the world, however, it is not fulfilling its vital function of feeding people, providing other basic commodities and generating stable income. Sharp population growth and accelerated urbanization have created a pressing need for more and more agricultural outputs. By the year 2025, an estimated 57 percent of the populations of developing countries are expected to live in urban areas, compared with 34 percent at present. Accelerated demand for agricultural products has exerted ever-increasing pressures on the natural resource base, resulting in excessive deforestation, loss of biological diversity, degradation of soils and various forms of pollution and contamination. -FOA 1992

1. Feeding The Planet Sustainably
Sustainable Agriculture
Mücahit Demirci
GLB201 Lesson, 2 October
Abdullah Gul University

2. Agriculture is world’s largest Industry
and play key roles in;
• Employment
• Over $1.3 trillion dollars
• Poverty reduction
• Job creation
• Food security

3. Pasture and Cropland

4. What is Sustainable Agriculture?
• Protecting the environment
• Expanding the Earth's natural
resource base
• Maintaining and improve soil
fertility.
Cambodian rice farmers. Photo by Brad Collis/Wikimedia Commons

5. When agricultural operations are sustainably managed;
Preserve
Restore
Protect
Improve

7. • What will we eat in
2050?

8. How technology can fast-track the global goals

10. A Five-Course Menu of Solutions for a
Sustainable Food Future Steps
• “Millions of farmers, companies, consumers and every government
on the planet will have to make changes to meet the global food
challenge. At every level, the food system must be linked to climate
strategies as well as ecosystem protections and economic prosperity,”
mentioned by Steer M. (2018) in World Resources Report: Creating a
Sustainable Food Future.

11. Steps to sustainability
1. Reduce growth in demand for food and other agricultural products
2. Increase food production without expanding agricultural land
3. Protect and restore natural ecosystems
4. Increase fish supply
5. Reduce harmful emissions from agricultural production

12. Reduce food loss and waste

13. Improve crop
breeding

14. Sustainable Development Solutions Network

15. References
• Bellemare, M. 2015. “Contract Farming: What’s in It for Smallholder Farmers in Developing
Countries?” Choices 30 (3): 1–4.
• Janet Ranganathan, Richard Waite, Tim Searchinger and Craig Hanson - December 05, 2018 How
to Sustainably Feed 10 Billion People by 2050, in 21 Charts.
• Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Agriculture & Food Systems
https://www.unsdsn.org/sustainable-agriculture-and-food-systems
• New Research Outlines 5-Course ‘Menu of Solutions’ to Achieve Sustainable Food Future
https://www.wri.org/news/2019/07/release-new-research-outlines-5-course-menu-solutions-
achieve-sustainable-food-future
• Creating a Sustainable Food Future
• A Menu of Solutions to Feed Nearly 10 Billion People by 2050 (Synthesis Report)
• by Tim Searchinger, Richard Waite, Craig Hanson, Janet Ranganathan, Patrice Dumas and Emily
Matthews - December 2018