凯捷：2026让可持续发展回归本源：面向未来的农业转型洞察报告（英文版）（25页）.pdf

1、Common sense sustainability:Transforming agriculture for the futureExecutive summarySince the 1960s,agricultural and agro-industrial practices have become increasingly standardized,largely driven by free trade agreements.This trend has contributed to several of the challenges we face today,including

2、 reduced genetic diversity in livestock and crops,ecosystem degradation,soil erosion,and water pollution.These impacts carry costs not only for society,but also for the sector itself,which is increas-ingly deprived of the benefits provided by healthy ecosys-tems.By 2050,the global population is expe

3、cted to stabilize at approximately 9.5 billion people.Achieving accelerated and sustainable growth and ensuring food security will be further complicated by the impacts of global climate change and extreme weather events.In recent years,the term resilience has become ubiquitous,featured in political

4、 speeches,reports,project calls and me-dia discourse.The emergence of this term follows the crises experienced by the agricultural sector,be they weather-relat-ed or financial,which have revealed the sectors vulnerability to uncertainties.The definition of resilience is the capacity of an ecosys-tem

5、,biotope,or group of individuals(population,species)to recover after an external disturbance(e.g.,fire,storm,deforestation,etc.).However,the notion of resilience as the ability to recover is insufficient to describe the need for global adaptation of the entire agricultural and agro-industri-al syste

6、m.Indeed,the target should not be to get back to the point prior to external disturbance,but rather to transform the current rules of the sector.Great agility is needed against extremely rapid changes to anticipate and act during uncer-tainties.Many innovations in agricultural practices are still li