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Growing food crops

Description

Growing food crops involves cultivating edible plants to ensure a reliable food supply, address hunger, and support nutritional needs. This strategy encompasses selecting suitable crops, preparing soil, managing water and nutrients, and protecting plants from pests and diseases. Its practical intent is to increase food availability, enhance food security, and reduce dependence on external sources, thereby remedying issues of malnutrition, food scarcity, and vulnerability to supply disruptions.This information has been generated by artificial intelligence.

Broader

Improving food self-sufficiency
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Growing food
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Growing crops
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Gardening
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Narrower

Planting nutritious food crops
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Initiating commercial market gardening
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Growing multiple crops
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Growing food in urban areas
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Growing diversified garden crops
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Growing balanced diet
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Constrained by

Producing non-food crops
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Problem

Inappropriate cash crop policy
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SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #2: Zero Hunger

Metadata

Database
Global strategies
Type
(D) Detailed strategies
Subject
  • Amenities » Food
  • Agriculture, fisheries » Cultivation
  • Agriculture, fisheries » Crops
    • Content quality
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    Language
    English
    1A4N
    V2612
    DOCID
    13226120
    D7NID
    194318
    Editing link
    Official link
    https://encyclopedia.uia.org/strategy/growing-food-crops
    Last update
    Oct 20, 2022