A Campaign for a Sustainable Future: Trade Synergy’s Place in Sustainable Agriculture

There’s an accelerating transformation in agricultural practices all around the world. Technological and scientific leapfroggings that almost seem futuristic; shifting patterns in global consumption; a growing global population; the advent of borderless trade, frictions in geopolitical relations and landscapes that have led to policy regimes, and the impacts of local and global environmental change have become the new normal. Scratch that, there is really no sense of “normal” anymore. Things seem to be in a state of constant flux.
In a world of globalized agriculture, these changes, cumulatively, have led to new, unusual and serious risks to agricultural production systems and producers. In light of these changes, sustainability of the agri-food system and farming as a multi-functional enterprise is of increasing importance.