Reducing the environmental footprint of food and farming with Agriculture Green Development

• 作 者: William J.DAVIES Jianbo SHEN
• 机 构: Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YW, UK“,”National Academy of Agri
• 出 处: 农业科学与工程前沿（英文版）
• 发表日期: 2020年1期

Despite the considerable achievements of science and agriculture in feeding more people with more food,we are now more conced than ever that global demand for food is still on the increase.It is unlikely that world population will peak until it is higher than 10 billion or perhaps even 11 billion.Our society,and not-least the operation of the global food system,is putting considerable pressure on our planetary systems.One dramatic example of this is that apparent climate change or the climate emergency as it is now known is never out of the headlines for long.While climate change is causing great problems for agriculture in many parts of the world,it is also clear that the operation of our current food system is responsible for significant degradation of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.Consequently,there is much interest in the greening of world food production known in China as Agriculture Green Development (AGD).