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January2024

Sustainable Development Goals

AGROVOC URI
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_013b16cd

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The Sustainable Development Goals are a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and improve the lives and prospects of everyone, everywhere. The 17 Goals were adopted by all UN Member States in 2015, as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development which set out a 15-year plan to achieve the Goals.

  • Concept of the month
    July2021

    Agrosilvopastoral systems

    Motivation: Sustainable production strategy that integrates agriculture, livestock and forestry within the same area, to obtain results which are synergic...

  • Concept of the month
    June2021

    Carbon sequestration

    Motivation: Soils are important carbon stores. The release of greenhouse gases in the soil, particularly through agricultural activities, has consequences...

  • Concept of the month
    May2021

    Apiculture

    Motivation: The vernal, or spring, equinox signals the beginning of nature's renewal. It is also the time of year when...

  • Concept of the month
    April2021

    Vaccination

    Motivation: Human history proves that before the development of vaccines epidemics have mercilessly killed millions of people and livestock. It...

  • Concept of the month
    March2021

    Tillage

    Motivation: The month of March is the right time for cultivating and preparing the land for planting and sowing crops...