FAO menjalankan kempen Save and Grow di seluruh dunia dengan memberi fokus kepada meningkatkan pengeluaran makanan, menjimatkan input serta sumber seperti air, baja, tanah dan kapital serta memelihara alam sekitar dan ekosistem semulajadi. Buku ini boleh dimuat turun di sini: Save and Grow.
Revolusi Hijau membawa kepada lonjakan kuantum dalam pengeluaran makanan dunia yang dirangsang oleh keselamatan makanan. Bagi kebanyakan negara, walau bagaimanapun, pengeluaran tanaman secara intensif telah mengurangkan sumber semula jadi yang menjadi asas kepada pertanian, sekaligus menjejaskan produktiviti masa hadapan. Dalam usaha untuk memenuhi permintaan yang dijangka meningkat untuk 40 tahun akan datang, petani di negara membangun mesti menggandakan pengeluaran makanan, tetapi cabaran yang lebih menakutkan ialah gabungan kesan perubahan iklim dan persaingan yang semakin sengit untuk tanah, air dan tenaga. Buku ini memaparkan satu paradigma baharu: Sustainable Crop Production Intensification (SCPI), yang menghasilkan lebih pengeluaran dari kawasan atau tanah yang sama dan pada masa yang sama menyokong pemuliharaan sumber, mengurangkan kesan negatif terhadap alam sekitar dan meningkatkan modal semulajadi dan aliran perkhidmatan ekosistem. Salah satu kaedah yang digariskan dalam menjimatkan penggunaan sumber disamping meningkatkan pengeluaran pertanian serta memelihara alam sekitar di dalam buku ini ialah System of Rice Intensification (SRI).
Terdapat 7 bab utama dalam buku ini iaitu:
1. The challenge
To feed a growing world population, we have no option but to intensify crop production. But farmers face unprecedented constraints. In order to grow, agriculture must learn to save.
2. Farming systems
Crop production intensification will be built on farming systems that offer a range of productivity, socio-economic and environmental benefits to producers and to society at large.
3. Soil health
Agriculture must, literally, return to its roots by rediscovering the importance of healthy soil, drawing on natural sources of plant nutrition, and using mineral fertilizer wisely.
4. Crops and varieties
Farmers will need a genetically diverse portfolio of improved crop varieties that are suited to a range of agro-ecosystems and farming practices, and resilient to climate change.
5. Water management
Sustainable intensification requires smarter, precision technologies for irrigation and farming practices that use ecosystem approaches to conserve water.
6. Plant protection
Pesticides kill pests, but also pests’ natural enemies, and their overuse can harm farmers, consumers and the environment. The first line of defence is a healthy agro-ecosystem.
7. Policies and institutions
To encourage smallholders to adopt sustainable crop production intensification, fundamental changes are needed in agricultural development policies and institutions.
Terdapat 7 bab utama dalam buku ini iaitu:
1. The challenge
To feed a growing world population, we have no option but to intensify crop production. But farmers face unprecedented constraints. In order to grow, agriculture must learn to save.
2. Farming systems
Crop production intensification will be built on farming systems that offer a range of productivity, socio-economic and environmental benefits to producers and to society at large.
3. Soil health
Agriculture must, literally, return to its roots by rediscovering the importance of healthy soil, drawing on natural sources of plant nutrition, and using mineral fertilizer wisely.
4. Crops and varieties
Farmers will need a genetically diverse portfolio of improved crop varieties that are suited to a range of agro-ecosystems and farming practices, and resilient to climate change.
5. Water management
Sustainable intensification requires smarter, precision technologies for irrigation and farming practices that use ecosystem approaches to conserve water.
6. Plant protection
Pesticides kill pests, but also pests’ natural enemies, and their overuse can harm farmers, consumers and the environment. The first line of defence is a healthy agro-ecosystem.
7. Policies and institutions
To encourage smallholders to adopt sustainable crop production intensification, fundamental changes are needed in agricultural development policies and institutions.
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