Food systems and natural resources-2016 Food Security and Climate change im...New Food Innovation Ltd
"We are what we eat, they say . Our Existence and, therefore, any of aspirations we might have as a society depend on the availability of , and access to, food. At the same time , our food depends on the state of natural resources .The Food we grow, harvest and trade , transport , store , sell and consumer is therefore one of the essential connecting threads between culture and wellbeing, their health and that of the planet
Food systems and natural resources-2016 Food Security and Climate change im...New Food Innovation Ltd
"We are what we eat, they say . Our Existence and, therefore, any of aspirations we might have as a society depend on the availability of , and access to, food. At the same time , our food depends on the state of natural resources .The Food we grow, harvest and trade , transport , store , sell and consumer is therefore one of the essential connecting threads between culture and wellbeing, their health and that of the planet
Regenerative Agriculture for small scale farmers in the sub-humid tropicsFMNR Hub
Tools and techniques to maximize profits and build resilient farming systems and improve natural resources management in Zambia
By Sebastian Scott – Grassroots Trust
A lecture by Kimberly Nicholas, professor of Sustainability Science at Lund University, summarizing recent research on the environmental impacts of food choices. The lecture was recorded in Stockholm, Sweden, then subtitled and shown at a youth leadership conference organized by a former student in Ukraine.
The dilemma of the global food system is a deeply existential one . On one hand we have a moral imperative to ensure we have uninterrupted food supply ,on the other , doing so based on the expansion of current practices will have a devastating impact on the environment
The EF compares human demand on nature with nature’s regenerative capacity.
It is a measure of the demands and the consumption of natural resources by people.
The sizes of ecological footprint vary from country to country and from person to person.
Wei Liao, PhD
Anaerobic Digestion Research and Education Center (ADREC)
Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering
Michigan State University
January 14th, 2016
Where to Turn Resource Fair, September 2016, 412 Food RescueMary Hagan
Jen England from 412 Food Rescue talks about saving our nation's discarded but edible food and how they are tackling the problem in the Pittsburgh and Southwest Pennsylvania region.
John Ingram | Enhancing food system resilience CIFOR-ICRAF
John Ingram, visiting CIFOR from the Environmental Change Institute — University of Oxford, was the keynote speaker during a seminar on food systems on Feb. 12, 2019, organized by the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA).
Presentation from Ravi Prabhu, Director of the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), outlining the role of Agroforestry in strengthening food security. The presentation was prepared and delivered in occasion of the International Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition, held at FAO in Rome on 18-19 September 2014.
the delicate topic of Sustainable Development through a
book which I have co-authored and give to the audience also a perspective on
how Education can sensitively provide support for this framework.
I will participate in my role of affiliate professor of management and behavior
for Grenoble Graduate School of Business, France ( www.ggsb.com)
by mark esposito (m.esposito@ht.umass.edu)
Regenerative Agriculture for small scale farmers in the sub-humid tropicsFMNR Hub
Tools and techniques to maximize profits and build resilient farming systems and improve natural resources management in Zambia
By Sebastian Scott – Grassroots Trust
A lecture by Kimberly Nicholas, professor of Sustainability Science at Lund University, summarizing recent research on the environmental impacts of food choices. The lecture was recorded in Stockholm, Sweden, then subtitled and shown at a youth leadership conference organized by a former student in Ukraine.
The dilemma of the global food system is a deeply existential one . On one hand we have a moral imperative to ensure we have uninterrupted food supply ,on the other , doing so based on the expansion of current practices will have a devastating impact on the environment
The EF compares human demand on nature with nature’s regenerative capacity.
It is a measure of the demands and the consumption of natural resources by people.
The sizes of ecological footprint vary from country to country and from person to person.
Wei Liao, PhD
Anaerobic Digestion Research and Education Center (ADREC)
Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering
Michigan State University
January 14th, 2016
Where to Turn Resource Fair, September 2016, 412 Food RescueMary Hagan
Jen England from 412 Food Rescue talks about saving our nation's discarded but edible food and how they are tackling the problem in the Pittsburgh and Southwest Pennsylvania region.
John Ingram | Enhancing food system resilience CIFOR-ICRAF
John Ingram, visiting CIFOR from the Environmental Change Institute — University of Oxford, was the keynote speaker during a seminar on food systems on Feb. 12, 2019, organized by the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA).
Presentation from Ravi Prabhu, Director of the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), outlining the role of Agroforestry in strengthening food security. The presentation was prepared and delivered in occasion of the International Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition, held at FAO in Rome on 18-19 September 2014.
the delicate topic of Sustainable Development through a
book which I have co-authored and give to the audience also a perspective on
how Education can sensitively provide support for this framework.
I will participate in my role of affiliate professor of management and behavior
for Grenoble Graduate School of Business, France ( www.ggsb.com)
by mark esposito (m.esposito@ht.umass.edu)
Transforming Agri-food Systems to Achieve Healthy Diets for AllCGIAR
Challenges: Why Agri-Food Systems Need to Be Transformed
Opportunities: What Science Can Offer to Address these Challenges
The CGIAR partnership: Our Contribution to achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Targets
A look at how nature provides us with services and how valuing these services is important to well-being. Slideshow from Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, UNEP
Author: Sara J. Scherr, Ecoagriculture Partners. Part of the keynote address at the 2nd World Congress of Agroforestry in Nairobi, Kenya. 24 August 2009.
What will it take to establish a climate smart agricultural world? Presentation on the problems, solutions and key challenges in Climate Smart Agriculture. Presentation made in the Wayamba Conference in Sri Lanka, August 2014.
Modern trends in agriculture extension in pakistan A Lecture By Mr Allah Dad...Mr.Allah Dad Khan
Modern trends in agriculture extension in pakistan A Lecture By Mr Allah Dad Khan Former DG Agriculture Extension Khyber Pakhtun Khwa Province & Visiting Professor Agriculture University Peshawar Pakistan
The Climate Food and Farming (CLIFF) Research Network is an international research network that helps to expand young researchers' knowledge and experience working on climate change mitigation in smallholder farming. CLIFF provides grants for selected doctoral students to work with CGIAR researchers affiliated with the Standard Assessment of Mitigation Potential and Livelihoods in Smallholder Systems (SAMPLES) project.
This presentation is UQuantifying mitigation potential in livestock systems and was made by Jacobo Arango from the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT).
This presentation introduces the "Transformation Initiative" . The presentation was held by Ana Maria Loboguerrero (Head of Global Policy Research at CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security) at the Technology Advantage event, part of the Agriculture Advantage 2.0 series at COP24.
Food planet health Fabrice DeClerck CLUES 2020Alain Vidal
Conference given at University Paris-Saclay / AgroParisTech on 24 November 2020 as part of Master CLUES (Sequence "Everyone Eating Well within Environmental Limits")
Martien van Nieuwkoop
Policy Seminar
Discussion on the Key Findings of FAO’s 2018 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World Report
Oct 10, 2018 - 12:15 pm to 01:45 pm EDT
This white paper offers a survey of eight strategies businesses along agricultural supply chains, civil-society organizations, investors, and nations are implementing to promote sustainable agricultural commodity production and ease pressures on tropical forests with some promising results, including a 70 percent reduction of deforestation over the past decade in the Brazilian Amazon, one of the largest deforestation hotspots on the planet.
2. Advances are being challenged
Activists don’t like the modern farming practices
Many want to return to “idyllic” vision of the past
Are the challenges valid?
Are there good scientific reasons to abandon our
modern farming?
Look beyond the headlines, be critical of "claims”
What are the environmental regulatory challenges?
Who should we listen to and what if we “get this
wrong”?
3. AFO
CAFO
Factory Farm
GMO
Localvore
Buy Local
Meatless Monday
Omnivore’s Dilemma
Righteous Pork chop
PETA
Vegan
10. Over grazing, lack of crop rotation, lack of
cover crops…didn’t use science
11. According to the American Farm Bureau, one farmer
in 1940 fed approximately 19 people. Today one
farmer feeds 155 people
200 years ago, 90% of the population farmed
Today less than 2% of the population farms.
12.
13. According to Neil Conklin, President of the Farm
Foundation, “Doubling agricultural output to meet
global demand by 2050 will require an annual
average growth of at least 1.75 percent in total
factor productivity (TFP)”
14. According to the United Nations General Assembly,
“Food production must double by 2050 to meet the
demand of the world’s growing population and
innovative strategies are needed to help combat
hunger, which already affects more than 1 billion
people in the world…”
16. How to produce more with less
How to do so while minimizing the
environmental footprint
17. ISO 14001 EMS Standard
An EMS meeting the requirements of ISO 14001:2004 is a management
tool enabling an organization of any size or type to:
identify and control the environmental impact of its
activities, products or services, and to
improve its environmental performance continually, and to
implement a systematic approach to setting environmental objectives and
targets, to achieving these and to demonstrating that they have been achieved
Source www.iso.org
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22. “The Michigan Agriculture Environmental Assurance
Program (MAEAP) is a holistic approach to
environmental protection.”
26. Is it the former practices of farming?
Is it the modern farming practices?
Is it something else?
27.
28. Beef/Animal
1977 = 603 lbs
2007 = 773 lbs
Beef to Market
1977 = 3045 animal days
2007 = 1940 animal days
In 1977 it took 5 animals to produce the same
as 4 animals in 2007
(Capper, 2012)
29. 1977 v 2007 = net reduced environmental
footprint (Capper, 2012).
131% beef per animal
70 % of the animals
81 % of the feed
88 % of the water
67 % of the land
82 % of the manure
82 % of the methane
88 % of the nitrous oxide
84 % of the carbon footprint
30. “Go Natural” If all US beef was grass-fed:
We would need an additional 131 million acres
(e.g., 75 % of the land of Texas)
GHG emissions increase by 134.5 million tons of
CO2e (26.6 million cars)
Water use by 468 billion gallons (53.1 million
households)
(Capper, 2012)
31. Comparing dairies in 1944 to 2007 modern
operations require
21 % fewer animals
23 % less feedstuffs
35 % less water
10 % less land
They produce 43% less CH4 and 56% less N2O
per billion kg of milk.
41. The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the
1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to
death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon
now. At this late date nothing can prevent a
substantial increase in the world death rate.
Paul Ehrlich
42. They didn’t happen because we continued to
advance farming practices with good science
What if had not embraced new technology?
43. Pressure from Environmental Activist
Pressure from Consumers/Sustainability
Pressures from Growing Demands…and
Pressures from Environmental Regulatory
44. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
State Environmental Regulators
ENFORCMENT – Includes Fines and Penalties
45. Keeping Raw Sewage and Contaminated Stormwater Out of our
Nation’s Waters
Preventing Animal Waste from Contaminating Surface and
Ground Waters
Cutting Toxic Air Pollution that Affects Communities’ Health
Reducing Widespread Air Pollution from the Largest Sources,
especially the Coal-Fired Utility, Cement, Glass, and Acid
Sectors
Reducing Pollution from Mineral Processing Operations
Assuring Energy Extraction Sector Compliance with
Environmental Laws
Source: http://www.epa.gov/oecaerth/data/planning/initiatives/initiatives.html
46. Clean Water Act
Spill Prevention Control & Countermeasure (SPCC)
Plans
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
(NPDES)
Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL)
Clean Air Act
National Air Emissions Monitoring Study (NAEMS)
Particulate Matter (PM)
Greenhouse Gases (GHGs)
47. SPCC
Milk exemption – President mentioned in the State of the
Union Address
Deadline for compliance with amendments May 2013
NPDES
Several court rulings regarding CAFOs that discharge or
propose to discharge
State specific requirements (MI different)
TMDL
1972 Federal Water Pollution Control Act
1st one RI Pond – $50K / 2 yrs
48. NAEMS
Data available
Groups “using” this data
Future emission standards?
Certain obligations by those who signed agreement
Soon Emission Estimating Methodologies published
49. Particulate Matter (PM) – Regulation of Dust
PM 10
PM 2.5
Good science?
Regulation?
53. If we want to feed the growing number of
people and reduce our environmental
footprint, then “intensification is the key”
(Mitloehner, 2012)
54. Farming must continue to increase
productivity to meet growing demands.
Must use science, but cannot just use
science to communicate to the public
Meet increased demands “sustainable”
farming
Have an active part in regulatory
development
55. Alan Hahn
Dragun Corporation
30445 Northwestern Highway
Suite 260
Farmington Hills, MI 48334
248-932-0228
ahahn@dragun.com