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Introduction/Agricultural Biodiversity/ SDNP-Newsletter/SDNP-ENVIS Partners
Agriculture development is at crossroads today. Despite an agricultural
revolution in the developing world over the course of a single generation
that has produced enormous benefits for farmers, consumers and economies,
a number of second generation challenges in agricultural transformation
have emerged.
Issues such as disparities in agricultural growth, problem of food insecurity and decreasing diversity, plateauing productivity in certain crops, growing ecological imbalance and unsustainable agricultural practices have come to fore. Ironically, a large proportion of the rural community continues to live in regions with poor quality soils and unpredictable rainfall, and remote from agricultural services and markets, deprived of the gains of agricultural revolution.