Sustainability

Herbicides, fungicides and insecticides cause serious environmental harm and put human health at risk – but they are not a foolproof way to boost production.

In non-competitive livestock farming, animals are kept in a way that ensures there is no competition with food crop production. This has considerable advantages – but also significant implications for human nutritional behaviour.

Farmed animals have many advantages and have a role to play in sustainable global agriculture. However, there is an urgent need for a switch to livestock farming that does not compete with human food crop production.

In many rural areas, there is a lack of reliable data on people’'s actual living conditions. One solution is to enlist people from the relevant area to collect data.

Kenyan legislators are seeking to ban the cultivation of eucalyptus along riparian lands, because the trees deplete the water, often resulting in the drying up of streams, aggravating the effects of climate change.

Ethiopia is the first country in the world to restrict imports of combustion engine cars. The move is celebrated as a leap in development. At the same time, large parts of the country still lack roads and an adequate power supply.

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Because of the climate crisis, a rethink is needed in rural affairs, and it is indeed happening internationally

To eradicate hunger globally, more value must be created locally.