With a growing global population expected to reach over 9 billion in 2050 and the increasing impact of climate change, developing sustainable agriculture and aquaculture while at the same time ensuring food safety presents great challenges. Not only d...
With a growing global population expected to reach over 9 billion in 2050 and the increasing impact of climate change, developing sustainable agriculture and aquaculture while at the same time ensuring food safety presents great challenges. Not only does it require a better understanding of how terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems function and their interrelationship with the availability of quality water, it requires a shift in the way we managethe ecosystems and the water within them to ensure food security. We have to safeguard and use our ecosystems wisely as they provide the basis of all the environmental services needed to achieve food security which are particularly important for the poor, women, and marginal groups. Agricultural and aquaculture production systems have to be recognized and managed as a landscape of integrated agro ecosystems with the potential for multiple functions. This presentation will review and examine the complexities involved in our ability to grow food sustainably in the midst of the degradation of the ecosystem services and examine the role policy makers can play in encouraging producers to retain or adopt more susceptible farming practices while safeguarding the benefits for local, national and global populations.