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Agrarian reform can refer either, narrowly, to government-initiated or government-backed redistribution of agricultural land or, broadly, to an overall redirection of the agrarian system of the country, which often includes land reform measures (From From Wikipedia)

Agricultural workers are exposed to a tremendous variety of environmental hazards that are potentially harmful to their health and well-being.

Agronomy is the science and technology of producing and using plants for food, fuel, fiber, and land reclamation. Agronomy has come to encompass work in the areas of plant genetics, plant physiology, meteorology, and soil science.

Conventional agriculture has relied heavily on chemical inputs that have negatively impacted the environment and increased production costs. Transition to agricultural sustainability is a major challenge and requires that alternative agricultural practices are scientifically analyzed to provide a sufficiently informative knowledge base in favor of alternative farming practices.

The world’s two billion farmers are both uniquely vulnerable to food insecurity and also hold the greatest promise for a solution to the challenge of global hunger. As faith communities and development organizations,

Biodiversity, a contraction of "biological diversity," generally refers to the variety and variability of life on Earth. One of the most widely used definitions defines it in terms of the variability within species, between species, and between ecosystems.

Large-scale commercial farming systems that promote genetic engineering of crops, backed by research and development initiatives by agrochemical TNCs is no longer the best choice to feed the world today.

A quick look on basic and most important information on Rice-producing countries in Asia. Profiles include socio-political, cultural and economic situation of each country such as geographical description; production, consumption and trade; labor; production and trade control; government’s role; cultural practices and rice festivals.

Pollution can affect air, water, or land and can threaten the health of humans, wildlife, and plants. The contamination of air, water, or soil by substances that are harmful to living things.

Export-oriented industrialization (EOI) sometimes called export substitution industrialization (ESI), export led industrialization (ELI) or export-led growth is a trade and economic policy

As faith communities and development organizations, we have partners on the ground whose communities suffer from chronic malnutrition and food insecurity.

Food security is a condition related to the supply of food, and individuals' access to it. Concerns over food security have existed throughout history. Food insecurity defines as a state in which “consistent access to adequate food is limited by a lack of money and other resources at times during the year.”

Gender justice entails ending the inequalities between women and men that are produced and reproduced in the family, the community, the market and the state.

Agrarian reform can refer either, narrowly, to government-initiated or government-backed redistribution of agricultural land or, broadly, to an overall redirection of the agrarian system of the country, which often includes land reform measures.

"Highly Hazardous Pesticides means pesticides that are acknowledged to present particularly high levels of acute or chronic hazards to health or environment according to internationally accepted classification systems such as WHO or GHS or their listing in relevant binding international agreements or conventions.

Informality and Labor Market Segmentation is an issue of growing significance in the developing world.

Land grabbing is the contentious issue of large-scale land acquisitions: the buying or leasing of large pieces of land in developing countries, by domestic and transnational companies, governments, and individuals.

Land rights do not just pertain to the right of ownership. They also refer to access, use, possession and occupation of land, and security of such use, possession or tenure.

In economics, a model is a theoretical construct representing economic processes by a set of variables and a set of logical and/or quantitative relationships between them.

The risk depends on the toxicity of the pesticide ingredients and how much of the pesticide a child is exposed to. Pesticides are a collective term for chemicals intended to kill unwanted insects, plants, molds, and rodents. Children encounter pesticides daily and have unique susceptibilities to their potential toxicity.

Sustainable agriculture is the act of farming based on an understanding of ecosystem services, the study of relationships between organisms and their environment.

In simpler terms, sustainable farming is farming ecologically by promoting methods and practices that are economically viable, environmentally sound and protect public health.

The youth, rooted in social movements of farmers, agricultural laborers, and other small food producers, plays a key role in the struggle to promote agroecology and uphold food sovereignty. The world’s youth is unmatched in its energy and vigor as part of a movement that strives to free food production and consumption from the devastating grip of capital.