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FAO estimates that farmers will have to produce twice as much food as they do today as to feed the expected 9.2 billion global population by 2050. With declining availability of water and production land per caput, lower productivity, stress induced by climate change and changing consumer patterns, farmers will have to intensify agricultural production. The challenge will be for them to do so sustainably. Inefficient use of agro-chemicals, both pesticides and fertilizers, remains prevalent among smallholder farmers in Asia. Vital ecosystem services provided by natural biological control and pollination are compromised as a result. Enduring and new concerns over farmer health, environmental pollution and food safety caused by indiscriminate use of agro-chemicals call for safer and more sustainable crop intensification and protection strategies. FAO has been working with Asian governments to develop robust Integrated Pest Management (IPM) strategies for a range of economically important crops during the last two decades.
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Ketelaar, J.W., Abubakar, A.L. (2012). Sustainable Intensification of Agricultural Production. In: Kim, M., Diong, C.H. (eds) Biology Education for Social and Sustainable Development. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-927-5_18
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