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Agricultural Production and Environment: Can they be friends?

Agricultural Production and Environment: Can they be friends?. Jitendra Srivastava, World Bank. What Underpins Friendship?. Mutual benefit Common Interest A good understanding of each others personality Accommodation and care for each other Not taking friendship for granted.

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Agricultural Production and Environment: Can they be friends?

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  1. Agricultural Production and Environment:Can they be friends? Jitendra Srivastava, World Bank

  2. What Underpins Friendship? • Mutual benefit • Common Interest • A good understanding of each others personality • Accommodation and care for each other • Not taking friendship for granted

  3. Agriculture Production and Environment • Both are important • Can be a foe • Can be a friend • Depending on how they are handled

  4. Factors Affecting the Relationship • Economic • Social • Ecological • Market / consumer demands • Policies / EU requirements • Technology • Access to knowledge

  5. Growing Examples of Win-Win Practices • Knowledge based agriculture replacing input intensive agriculture • Sustainable productivity gains relieving pressure on plaguing more lands • Organic produce, minimum tillage, IPM, nutrient management, new technologies, etc.

  6. Lessons From the Past • Culture and agriculture go together, good agriculture gave rise to good civilizations • Bad agriculture – misusing the natural resources – destroyed civilizations • Cultures – Mesopotamia/Salinization Aral Sea/Desertification

  7. Strong consensus emerging that agricultural development and conservation of natural resources must go hand-in-hand and their future is intertwined

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