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Despite some notable successes, such as the aircraft manufacturer Embraer in Brazil and salmon farming in Chile, governments largely picked losers – not least because political pressure, not firms’ competitive potential, drove the selection process.
It may also require establishing community childcare centers, so that women farmers have the option to spend more time farming.
Involving African women in decision-making about crop production turns out to enable environmentally sustainable farming practices.
Moreover, rising world energy prices has made food production more costly, since it requires large energy inputs for transport, farming, and fertilizers.
Data-driven farming techniques are helping growers achieve higher yields, while mobile finance is broadening financial inclusion in poor communities.
In fact, 70% of workers in Sub-Saharan Africa remain in the informal sector, such as smallholder farming, street vending, and domestic tasks, rather than salaried jobs.
New technologies such as genome “base editing” have even raised the specter of widespread “embryo farming,” prompting calls for a reevaluation of how embryo research is regulated.
In fact, the biggest threat facing these and many other species is a far more ordinary human pursuit: farming.
Poverty is at the root of this ecological crisis, but poor farming practices perpetuate the cycle of hunger and habitat loss.
Research shows that better farming practices and technology can increase agricultural productivity while reducing habitat loss and protecting wildlife.
But, at the moment, farming – the activity most responsible for damaging the health of many species – is failing to attract the policymaking attention that it deserves.
New farming techniques that use data and drones to monitor crop health will help.
Meeting the food demands of the planet’s growing population will require new farming products, technologies, and practices to increase productivity.
Beyond exposing failed farming policies, this year’s drought-fueled turmoil also underscores the threat that climate change poses not just to India, but to all countries.
Indeed, reliance solely on organic farming – a movement inspired by the pesticide fear – would cost more than $100 billion annually in the US.
To take one example, in Niger, education and improved farming techniques helped double real farm incomes for more than one million people, while restoring huge tracts of severely degraded land.
The gap between Haiti’s performance and its potential is now so large that great gains can be achieved in income levels, farming, health, education, and more.
This is vital because, according to the World Bank, growth in farming eliminates poverty twice as much as growth in any other economic sector.
And many other sources of vulnerability are underrated: the potential impact of climate disruption on farming and fisheries; how a shift away from fossil-fuel consumption will impair food production; how agriculture itself, a major emitter of greenhouse gases, accelerates climate change; and the consequences of groundwater overpumping and the progressive deterioration of soils.
Indeed, agriculture is also a leading cause of biodiversity loss –& and thus loss of ecosystem services supplied to farming and other human enterprises – as well as a principal source of global toxification.
Herbicide-tolerant plants have decreased herbicide use and encouraged the widespread adoption of no-till farming, markedly reducing topsoil loss and promoting soil fertility.
Citizens of many urbanized, developed countries have grown nostalgic, increasingly convinced that organic farming, a throwback to nineteenth-century agriculture, produces nutritionally superior food (it doesn’t) and can solve the world’s food problems (it can’t).
Where land is not yet limited, small-scale organic farming is an affordable luxury.
If subsistence farming is systematically underestimated, some of what looks like growth as an economy moves out of subsistence may merely reflect a shift to something that is easier to capture statistically.
The views of organic devotees seem to be shared by the European Commission, whose official view of organic farming and foods is, “Good for nature, good for you.”
Finally, many who are seduced by the romance of organic farming ignore its human consequences.
American farmer Blake Hurst offers this reminder: “Weeds continue to grow, even in polycultures with holistic farming methods, and, without pesticides, hand weeding is the only way to protect a crop.”
In Uganda, where civil wars in the 1970’s and 1980’s devastated farming, cotton growers are making a major comeback.
Every developing country must understand that we can ensure that smallholders produce more food in sustainable ways only if their farming is profitable.
Indeed, increasing environmentally sustainable farming among smallholders around the world will require reshaping national policies and the architecture of public and private investment so that farmers can learn these techniques, witness their value, and employ them profitably.
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