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September 2021
Food systems
AGROVOC URI: http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_bea5db85
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Motivation: A sustainable food system is one that delivers food security and nutrition for all in such a way that the economic, social and environmental bases to generate food security and nutrition for future generation is not compromised. This means that it is profitable throughout, ensuring economic sustainability, it has broad-based benefits for society, securing social sustainability, and that it has a positive or neutral impact on the natural resource environment, safeguarding the sustainability of the environment.
Potato harvesters
March 2023
Potato harvesters are used to dig potatoes from the ground and collect them. Since the 1960s, these machines have saved...
AGROVOC URI: http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_7bde518a
Hive management
February 2023
Hive management, monitoring and responding to the needs of beehives in relation to the time of year and local climate...
AGROVOC URI: http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_3639
Sustainable agriculture
January 2023
Sustainable agriculture with its three components: economic (production viability to meet the growing needs for food of present and future...
AGROVOC URI: http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_33561
Seed health
December 2022
The safe conservation and exchange of germplasm requires seeds free of pests and diseases that are of quarantine risk. Seed...
AGROVOC URI: http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_fad814e9
Agrobiodiversity
November 2022
Agricultural biodiversity is a broad term that includes all components of biological diversity of relevance to food and agriculture, and...
AGROVOC URI: http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_37977
