Halting deforestation is a global challenge largely due to unsustainable agricultural practices that degrade natural ecosystems.

Since the beginning of the 20th century, the world’s forests lost about 20% of their coverage. Ninety percent of deforestation is the result of agriculture, with 60% due to the extension of agro-industrial intensive farming (soya, palm oil, corn…), and the remaining 30% caused by small-scale and subsistence farmers. Close to 20% of all carbon emissions result from deforestation and forest degradation.

Climate change will increasingly affect agricultural conditions and there is an urgent need to make farming practices evolve to adapt to climate change. In 2007, experts at the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) stated that agro-ecology was the most reliable way to guarantee food security in our future.

Here’s a discussion with some corporate professionals in agroforestry, afforestation & reforestation, based out of Bangalore, India on – how they are doing it “organically” and how can they benefit out of the “New Ecological way of farming” through “Resurrecting the Native Ecology in Soil, Water and Air”? and how can the farmland go diseases, pests and weather resilient?