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  2. Subsistence agriculture - Wikipedia

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    Subsistence farming continues today in large parts of rural Africa, [6] and parts of Asia and Latin America. In 2015, about 2 billion people (slightly more than 25% of the world's population) in 500 million households living in rural areas of developing nations survive as " smallholder " farmers, working less than 2 hectares (5 acres ) of land ...

  3. Sustainable agriculture - Wikipedia

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    Sustainable agriculture is farming in sustainable ways meeting society's present food and textile needs, without compromising the ability for current or future generations to meet their needs. [1] It can be based on an understanding of ecosystem services .

  4. Smallholding - Wikipedia

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    An old dairy farm used as a hobby farm near Leicester, New York A hobby farm (also called a lifestyle block, acreage living, or rural residential) is a smallholding or small farm that is maintained without expectation of being a primary source of income. Some are held simply to bring homeowners closer to nature, to provide recreational land for ...

  5. Agroforestry - Wikipedia

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    Agroforestry practices are especially prevalent in the tropics, especially in subsistence smallholdings areas, with particular importance in sub-Saharan Africa. Due to its multiple benefits, for instance in nutrient cycle benefits and potential for mitigating droughts, it has been adopted in the USA and Europe.

  6. Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa - Wikipedia

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    AGRA, formerly known as the Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa is an African-led African-based organization that seeks to catalyse Agriculture Transformation in Africa. AGRA is focused on putting smallholder farmers at the centre of the continent's growing economy by transforming agriculture from a solitary struggle to survive into farming ...

  7. Getting what you pay for: Customers weigh costs, benefits of ...

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    Getting customers to buy into local, small-scale, environmentally-sustainable farms and farmers on the front end of the process has long been the goal of community supported agriculture, or CSA.

  8. Sustainable Development Goal 2 - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] SDG 2 highlights the "complex inter-linkages between food security, nutrition, rural transformation and sustainable agriculture". [3] According to the United Nations , there were up to 757 million people facing hunger in 2023 – one out of 11 people in the world, [ 4 ] which accounts for slightly less than 10 percent of the world ...

  9. Environmental impact of agriculture - Wikipedia

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    Because of agriculture's importance to global social and environmental systems, the international community has committed to increasing sustainability of food production as part of Sustainable Development Goal 2: “End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture". [7]