Is it a positive way to adopt sustainable agricultural practices as a way of protecting microbiota or to follow intensive agriculture in order to meet impending food crisis?
Yes it is. Keep plant cover on the soil, reduce tillage, and add carbon from crop residues or manure wherever possible. It sounds simple because the soil biodiversity takes care of the complexity. Most intensive practices simplify and rely on inputs that are ultimately not sustainable—but we cannot trash them because they feed the 4 billion+ urban dwellers.
Food security exists when all people have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs for an active and healthy life. People around the globe share a common need for a safe, nutritious and reliable supply of food. Agriculture is of fundamental importance to developing countries, because a well functioning agricultural sector is essential to ensuring food security, and agricultural products are a major source of national income. Sustainable agriculture and food systems such as organic agriculture and agro-ecology improve food security, eradicate hunger and are economically viable, while conserving land, water, plant and animal genetic resources, biodiversity and ecosystems and enhancing resilience to climate change and natural disasters.As against conventional farming, sustainable farming offers to provide healthy food by transitioning to agriculture that can adapt to unavoidable climate change whilst preserving biodiversity, sustaining the quality of soils, and improving the livelihood of farmers. By 2032, the share of the population that is food insecure in the 77 countries is projected at 12 percent, a 63-percent drop from the 2022 estimate. The number of people considered food insecure is projected to decline 57 percent from the 2022 estimate to 577.3 million people by 2032. Experts assert that open trade, information transparency, waiver in food import bills, and, most importantly, free flow of fertilisers for farmers worldwide are the prominent calls to action to alleviate the situation. The ultimate solution to India's food problem is increased production and control of population. This can be brought about by the use of better seeds, more fertilizers, more irrigation, and so on.