Agriculture feed the world, without food no one live on earth. Climate change is the biggest problem facing world nowadays. What do you think about Agriculture and climate change?
Thank you Doctor Jan for a deep and insightful question. So many of our modern maladies are related to nutrition. Our nutrition is product of water air and soil. To this day the bulk of our food comes directly or indirectly from our soil. Confucius said we all depend on a foot of top soil and the reality of whether it rains or not. Yet our modern agriculture has resulted in very significant reduction of soil organic matter which holds a key for optimizing our human nutrition.
Organic matter is mostly Carbon but also has a significant portion of Nitrogen. These two atoms are also principle greenhouse gases which are causing our climate change. When we manage our soils to increase soil organic matter we address water issues for crop production and also get at the reduction of over enrichment in greenhouse gases.
As W. Abass said we need to return to a balance. As we are fed better from an enriched soil not only does the climate get improvement but we avoid drought and our diets are enriched.
There is also a deep spiritual connection possible when we improve mother earth rather than degrade her.
While the first steps of dealing with greenhouse gases is energy systems or emission reduction the second point which is no less important is the use of our agriculture forest and pasturelands to sequester greenhouse gases.
Most interest has been on emission controls but this need to coupled with land improvements.
Please see the link,
https://19january2017snapshot.epa.gov/climate-impacts/climate-impacts-agriculture-and-food-supply_.html
Here is another link:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272182050_Impact_of_Climate_Change_on_Agriculture_in_Pakistan_A_District_Level_Analysis
Tommaso Perrone described it well.
https://www.lifegate.com/people/news/agriculture-and-climate-change-causes-effects-impacts
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The role of agriculture is to work to restore balance
Climate change processes and agriculture are interrelated processes that occur on a global scale. Global warming is expected to have significant impacts on conditions affecting agriculture, including temperature, carbon dioxide, melting, precipitation, and interaction between these elements. These conditions determine the biomass capacity of the biosphere to produce food sufficient for the world's population and domestic animals. The overall impact of climate change on agriculture will depend on the balance between these impacts. Assessing the impacts of global climate change on agriculture can help predict and adapt agriculture correctly to increase agricultural production
Thank you Doctor Jan for a deep and insightful question. So many of our modern maladies are related to nutrition. Our nutrition is product of water air and soil. To this day the bulk of our food comes directly or indirectly from our soil. Confucius said we all depend on a foot of top soil and the reality of whether it rains or not. Yet our modern agriculture has resulted in very significant reduction of soil organic matter which holds a key for optimizing our human nutrition.
Organic matter is mostly Carbon but also has a significant portion of Nitrogen. These two atoms are also principle greenhouse gases which are causing our climate change. When we manage our soils to increase soil organic matter we address water issues for crop production and also get at the reduction of over enrichment in greenhouse gases.
As W. Abass said we need to return to a balance. As we are fed better from an enriched soil not only does the climate get improvement but we avoid drought and our diets are enriched.
There is also a deep spiritual connection possible when we improve mother earth rather than degrade her.
While the first steps of dealing with greenhouse gases is energy systems or emission reduction the second point which is no less important is the use of our agriculture forest and pasturelands to sequester greenhouse gases.
Most interest has been on emission controls but this need to coupled with land improvements.
Climate change has a negative relationship to agricultural activity and this is a cycle that leads to the deterioration of food security
The problem in my opinion has to do with the "scale" of agriculture. The present scale of agriculture (overall) is unsustainable. Agriculture has been replaced by agribusiness and the impact of agribusiness on the environment is simply disastrous. Agribusiness has been contributing to deforestation, land degradation and massive pollution of soil and water. Agribusiness has been causing displacement for millions of small, family farmers around the world this enhancing enormous migrations as those we are witnessing in present days. Therefore, humanity needs to re-scale agriculture to secure food and to cope with the more unpredictable weather patterns cause by climate change. This is possible through agroecology as many approaches to agriculture in this direction have been demonstrating for a very long time.
Climate change and its effects have become the main concern of the world these days. Climate change is expected to affect the productivity of agricultural land. The expected increase in temperature and change in seasonal pattern will lead to a reduction in the agricultural productivity of some crops.
New varieties that tolerate high temperatures, salinity and dehydration should be devised under conditions prevailing in climate change. As well as reducing greenhouse gas emissions from crop cultivation through agricultural practices and sound farm management of various gas-producing crops.
Despite the great development of agriculture in the world, there are still some risks that agriculture may not meet all the human needs. On top of the risks, there is global warming and fluctuations of weather in different parts of the world which have negative consequences on agriculture.
I agree with you respected Paul Reed Hepperly, i belief in organic farming, integrated farming, regenerated farming, sustainable farming, in which we try to control the balance of soil organic matter. Soil organic matter is like battery which provides extra energy to plants. Addition of soil organic matter is actually soil sequestration which have impressive result on greenhouse gases and broad term on climate change.. Thanks for your precious time
Farming with modern and organic approach will give good results.
I want to agree with Harmin Vardhilal Vardhilal Thakkar we need to have biologically based organic systems but these need to be able to be scaled in such a way to provide the environmental and economic services to service the planet. Appropriate technologies can be scaled on small medium and large scales I like we need to be able to use efficient methods and also maintain the biological basis of our systems. This I believe is a best of both worlds.
Climate change and agriculture are interrelated processes that occur on a global scale. Global warming is expected to have significant impacts on conditions affecting agriculture, including temperature, carbon dioxide, melting ice and precipitation.
Thank you D. Jan for a deep question. I agree with Dr. Zainab Makawi
Some trees and crops are very useful for climate improvement. Try to grow more crops and tree using modern agricultural techniques to improve climate conditions
Climate can be improve with the help of proper agricultural program.
Agricultural landscapes should be designed and maintained according to the biotic and abiotic characteristics of specific environments. In other words, is not only the scale of production that must be reconsidered but also the ability of agriculturalists to interpret the attributes of the environment in which farming takes place by employing resources and ecological services that may be available (and employable at no extra cost), if more appropriate crops are grown. In this context, I shift towards perennialism in agriculture is a very important goal to achieve, in order to counteract the challenges posed by climate change.
Soil is the source of food we eat, which act as a medium for growing plants commercially, what we call crops, which we cultivate by various agricultural techniques (although some other methods like Hydroponics and Aeroponics have developed with the course of time which do not require soil as a medium).
Food is the basis of our body, but some think this soil as dirt.
If the source is dirt, what of the end products?
Only in preserving the quality of soil, and managing and judiciously utilizing other resoures (water, fertilizers, fuels etc), the quality of the planet & life will endure.
So to ensure the optimum production of food grains from Agriculture, better resource management strategies are needed.
Agriculture is not only affected, but it also contribute to Change Climate Change.
The intensive agricultural practices adopted during the green revolution has drained the resource base of soils
& post 1950’s, rapid industrialization coupled with faulty conventional agricultural practices have significantly contributed in building up green house gases in the atmosphere
Highest green house emissions in the human history were recorded in the previous decade on this planet, which is one of the major drivers of climate change.
Dear Muhammad Faheem Jan,
Thank you very much for making very important inquiries on the Research Gate portal and inspiring important discussions on particularly important issues.
In my opinion, it is good that there was a discussion in the question of this query.
This is a very interesting and scientifically important topic.
Question:
What is the role of Agriculture in the world? World facing biggest problem nowadays is climate climate which directly related to Agriculture?
this is a very important issue that requires scientific research.
It seems to me that it is good that there was a discussion in the question of this question.
Agriculture is the basic sector of national economies.
I wish you all good and best regards
Agriculture is the basic sector of national economies. The technological progress that has been taking place over the millennia, including mechanization and the chemization of agriculture developed since the beginning of the 20th century, through the use of chemical plant protection products, and then genetics have increased yield per hectare. I invite you to the discussion.
Technical and technological progress in agriculture has also contributed to the gradual decline in employment in agriculture. However, these are not the most serious problems of agriculture. However, many scientific studies and data of climatologists suggest that in the near future, in the 21st century, these will not be the most serious problems of agricultural development. Well, in the 21st century, due to the progressive global warming, crop acreages and areas of arable land can be significantly reduced.
I invite you to the discussion.
In connection with the emission of greenhouse gases in the perspective of the next dozen or so years, the process of global warming may enter the phase of acceleration of this warming and the inability to reverse this process if man in the coming years fails to implement pro-ecological reforms to implement sustainable and pro-ecological development based on national and global economy. the concept of a new, green economy. If this negative scenario was to be realized then by the end of the 21st century at the latest the average temperature at the Earth's surface will increase by as much as another 4 degrees C, which will increase and increase the scale of increasingly emerging climatic cataclysms, all glaciers and arable land areas they will decrease.
I invite you to the discussion.
As part of climate disasters, droughts, desertification and steppping of existing areas covered with greenery will appear. These processes will also reduce arable land areas. There will be problems with the boarding of a large part of the population, the scale of the national migration of people in search of places to live will increase, to survive. More and more permanent economic crises will appear and the risk of dramatic events, including wars, will increase. Humanity can not let this happen. This is the main challenge of humanity for the 21st century. In the near future, ecological innovations, renewable energy sources, streamlining the process of waste segregation and recycling, the electromobility of motorization etc. should be developed. Scientific research shows that these projects should be carried out on a large scale globally already in the perspective of the next decade. Otherwise, the process of global warming will accelerate and become an irreversible process, which in turn would lead to a global climate disaster at the latest at the end of the 21st century.
I invite you to the discussion.
The above discussion inspired me to the following considerations:
How will the eating habits of people change until 2050 so that you can feed 10 billion people?
Demographers estimate that by 2050, the number of people on Earth will reach 10 billion. With such a number of people, the agricultural economy, logistics of food supplies and people's eating habits will have to change. It is likely that economics will force these processes, which will result in the transition of the majority of humanity to nutrition mainly based on vegetable and vegetarian diets. Meat production is many times more expensive than the production of cereals, fruits and vegetables. In addition, according to scientific research and the theory of futurologists, the production of traditional meat, e.g. pork and beef, may be replaced by the production of protein from insect breeding. Research shows that there are more proteins in the bodies of insects than in traditional meat dishes. In addition, the logistics of food supplies, agri-food products will have to improve. Systems for matching agricultural and reptile production to the current needs of the industry and the nutritional needs of people will be improved so as to reduce the scale of food wastage. The biggest threat to the implementation of this plan may be unexpected atmospheric phenomena, natural disasters, droughts, hurricanes, tropical heat in the areas in which agricultural crops have been cultivated so far. In addition, industrial exploitation of arable land and climate change causes soil depletion and the disintegration of areas suitable for agricultural production. Therefore, it will be necessary to continue the technological progress in the production of crops, in biotechnology, in the creation of new plant varieties resistant to pests and adverse climatic changes.
Please, answer, comments. I invite you to the discussion.
Should chemistry and monoculture be reduced in sustainable and ecological agriculture and agricultural techniques referring to natural ecosystems should be developed?
Many studies show that the most effective organic farming involves cultivating a formula that refers to natural, complex, biologically multispecies ecosystems.
The formula of ecological agriculture consisting in cultivating many different plant species side by side, referring to the formation of a natural ecosystem, allows to eliminate chemical plant protection products and reduce biological fertilization.
Only the use of biologically neutral machines and technical devices for crops to correct the functioning of organic crops would allow the improvement of this formula and the pursuit of sustainable agriculture.
Only the question of the legitimacy of using or possibly resigning from the creation of new, more resistant to various diseases and pests of new varieties of cultivated plants through the application of genetics engineering would remain to be considered.
It is not about creating new species of plants or animals through genetic manipulation techniques, but about breeding more resistant to diseases and pests new crop varieties as a perfecting cultivation formula referring to the natural ecosystem.
Crops referring to the natural biological biological system should be improved by the creation and introduction into these complex crops of these new varieties of crop plants in order to restore biological balance, which was previously significantly reduced through the widespread use of monoculture crops grown under classical agriculture.
In this way, it is possible to recreate sustainable agriculture in the future in areas where formerly monocultural farming crops or reclamation areas were previously operated.
Therefore, I would like to ask you: Should chemistry and monoculture be reduced in sustainable and ecological agriculture and agricultural techniques referring to natural ecosystems should be developed?
Please, answer, comments. I invite you to the discussion.
Will we be able to stop or at least completely slow down adverse climate changes, global warming, progressing greenhouse effect on Earth?
This is probably the most important problem to explore and solve in the 21st century.
Unfortunately, many people, including politicians and entrepreneurs managing large industrial corporations ignore the seriousness of this problem. It is necessary to develop research in this area, in the matter of examining the determinants of climate change, global warming, rising average temperature on the Earth, progressing greenhouse effect on Earth. These problems must be publicized in the mass media. While it is not too late, while this unfavorable process can be partially reversed. Or maybe we can not reverse this process anymore? Maybe it's too late? What then, will we be able to protect, at least partially, the biosphere, natural ecosystems due to these adverse climate changes, anomalies and climatic cataclysms, from drought in many areas currently agricultural or possessing a rich biosphere? Research on these topics needs to be developed, publicized, and published. Perhaps, finally, politicians and owners of industrial corporations will change their approach to more pro-ecological. This is probably the most important question for the 21st century: Will we be able to stop adverse climate changes, including the progressing greenhouse effect on Earth?
Please reply. I invite you to the discussion
I think that agriculture is dependent of the climate change and vice versa , because according to this change all the cycle of matter (organique or mineral ) is affected by this variation (role of the soil microflora rhizospheric microflora , zoonose or flore ect....). if
So if all the ecosystem is polluated or contaminated we will get a negative agriculture and a vicious cycle ; as a results many people with immunopathology disorders (HS, MAI, DI, CANCERS, and Infertility). We will need a green chemicals and sustainable agroecosystem.
The vast depleted soil reservoir can be filled with excess greenhouse gases to resolve our issues with global climate change. Most experts are well familiarized that our present agricultural systems have reduced the our soil carbon and nitrogen by well over one half of the original amount. By filling this emptied reservoir we not only counteract the greenhouse gases but also promote soil conditions which enrich our food system and counteract the climate change challenge of mitigating a hotter environment with more potential for periodic drought. Agree that agricultural chemicals are part of this challenge of greening our blue planet.
A gradual yet consistent shift toward agroecology is the categorical imperative to achieve for insuring food security into the future, near and far.
Water is one of the most critical planetary resources. When we focus the health of soil the issues of contaminated water systems can be resolved. Much of our issues with water and its quality can be traced to the agricultural practices and their impacts. .
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