CUC100 Assessment 3: Sustainable Farming in Food Production Plan

This presentation outlines a plan for an essay on the importance of sustainable farming in food production, highlighting its significant impact on economic, social, and environmental aspects. The thesis statement emphasizes how sustainable farming reduces overproduction, mitigates food crises, improves nutrition and health, and addresses climate change, soil degradation, and water contamination. The presentation includes an overview of sustainability concerns, such as environmental impacts from chemical use, soil degradation, water contamination, social issues like overpopulation and changing food habits, and economic challenges including overproduction and food wastage. The presentation concludes by acknowledging the need for more research and government intervention to address these sustainable concerns effectively. The student also includes a reference list and bibliography.

Importance of sustainable
farming in food
production

Thesis statement
Sustainable farming has significant
impact on economic and social aspects, it
reduces over production that mitigates
the chances of food crisis and by
increasing the food nutrition health and
wellbeing of human are being
maintained. Sustainable farming
practices have also significant impact on
environmental aspects as it reduces the
climatic change, soil degradation and
water contamination. Source: Allegra, Muratore &
Zarba, 2017

Background of the current
scenario
Sustainable farming in food production has become
necessary for offering innovative pathway to deal with
poverty (Niggli, 2015).

Definition of sustainability
The term sustainability indicates the ability for meeting the
present needs without compromising the abilities of future
generations for meeting their needs (Niggli, 2015).

Graphic presentation of the essay [plan

Explain the sustainability
concern
Sustainability has become the major concern for
agricultural field. Due to tremendous growth in the food
industry, huge amount of food is being wasted, which is
influencing the financial status of the farmers

Environmental concern
• Increasing uses of chemicals are compromising the quality
of the foods
• Soil degradation and water contamination

Social concern
• Over population
• Changing food habits of the people

Economic concern
• Overproduction
• Food wastage

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• Bontems, P., Martinet, V., Rotillon, G., & Withagen, C. (2015). Interactions between agricultural economics and
environmental and resource economics in European research: Insights from the theory of non-renewable
resources. Revue d'Etudes en Agriculture et Environnement-Review of agricultural and environmental studies, 167-
185.
• Niggli, U. (2015). Sustainability of organic food production: Challenges and innovations. Proceedings of the Nutrition
Society, 74(1), 83-88.
• Sanyé-Mengual, E., Anguelovski, I., Oliver-Solà, J., Montero, J. I., & Rieradevall, J. (2016). Resolving differing
stakeholder perceptions of urban rooftop farming in Mediterranean cities: promoting food production as a driver for
innovative forms of urban agriculture. Agriculture and human values, 33(1), 101-120.
• Stanković, B., Hristov, S., Zlatanović, Z., Bojkovski, J., & Maksimović, N. (2016). Sustainibility ahd Efficiency of Dairy
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on 15th Jan, 2019]
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Conclusion
I believe, in order to complete the essay in proper manner, if
more journals could have been reviewed, it would have been
better for elaborating the sustainable concerns in proper
manner. Depending on the sustainable concerns, it can be
said that government should play an active role for
mitigating the economic, social and environmental concerns
so that the long term benefits can be gained.