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How Agriculture Is Impacting the Environment?

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Food is the basic need of humans and an important component of our well-being. In this globalized world, everyone is connected. Now a salmon caught in the Pacific Ocean can be enjoyed by someone sitting in an American restaurant. Every country is striving hard to meet the growing demand for food. Several methods are being implemented to increase crop production. Not only crop production, but food also went through various processes before reaching our plates such as processing, storing, and packaging. At every stage, the food emits greenhouse gases which impact the climate and eventually the whole ecosystem. Methane and Nitrous oxide- The two most important greenhouse gases are produced during farming. While nitrous oxides are produced by fertilizers, methane is released during the digestion of animals. In addition to this, the unsustainable method of farming is also affecting the ecosystem to a large extent. According to an estimate, more than 14% of greenhouse gases are pro
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How Sustainable Agriculture Standards are Helping Farmers and the Environment?

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Agriculture performs a major role in the economies of most of the countries. The agriculture sector can help in the eradication of poverty and hunger and can promote trade between countries. Instead of the increased production of food items all over the world, a large amount of the population is still unnourished but why? There can be several reasons for it but out of them, the most significant one is the increased use of chemicals and pesticides in the crops. These techniques are not only killing the insects but also affecting the health of plants, soil, and human beings. These damaging agriculture practices are however changing substantially. Several reports published in recent years said that there is a growing demand for sustainable agriculture products all over the world and why not? Everyone is concerned about their wellbeing and ecosystem health.  Sustainable agriculture standards  are playing a key role in saving the earth's ecosystem. Sustainable agriculture app
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Sustainable Agriculture Is a Boon for Modern Generation

Sustainable Agriculture Is Life: Unsustainable agriculture is giving many concerns to the present generation and thus it is effecting the natural environment massively. It is causing serious damage to the soil and it is contaminating it with the dangerous chemicals as well. Moreover, it is also causing over-exploitation of water and this unsustainable agriculture has promoted water pollution with the usages of these dangerous chemical substances. On the other hand, sustainable agriculture is a form of farming that is the need of the hour for the survival of the modern generation and to make the perfect balance of the ecological system. Sustainable agriculture is a type of farming that does not harm the atmosphere at all and keeps the ecosystem balanced. So, sustainable agriculture is life for human beings from a future point of view. Hazardous & Useful Activities: Moreover, there are other agriculture practices as well that are causing soil erosion, water-logging, and wat
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How Organic Certified Sustainable Food Products Can Change Your Life - Friend of the Earth

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Do you know how we are exploiting the earth and destroy the ecosystem through the techniques that we use for Agricultural and food-producing activities? No, we are not really concerned about it. We are also not concerned about the decreasing quality of food that is being supplied in the market due to the high use of dangerous insecticides and other chemical items. Care it or not, we are destroying both natures as well as human health. Using the high content of chemicals in food and agriculture produce makes the product in high content of chemicals, which ultimately goes into our body and thus resulting in health problems. On the other side, it also destroys the natural animals and fertile content present in the soil, which affects our ecosystem. What can be done to curb this hazardous cycle? FRIEND OF THE EARTH Sustainable food products are very important to mankind. The food products that are certified by Friends of the earth are authenticated produced through organi
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