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Food Security Against
Food Security Against
soil degradation,
air and water pollution, loss of biodiversity, and the disruption of food web
It has the potential to increase efficiency, improve quality, and lower costs.
However, there are some disadvantages to the use of technology in agriculture.
Technology creates more work for farmers and can also reduce the personal connection
that farmers have to their land.
For example, the study considered potential impacts of increased automation in food production on
society and the environment. While automation may reduce the labor and agrochemical costs of food
production and processing, it may increase energy costs. Similarly, automation may reduce human
exposure to harmful agrochemicals and dangerous equipment, but it may also decrease the number of jobs
in agricultural production, resulting in more urban migration and greater urban unemployment and
poverty, and ultimately in social conflict in the absence of adequate social support.
Fertilizers and chemicals can boost productivity, but they can deplete soil fertility over time.
“Cultivators are the most valuable citizens… they are tied to
their country.” – Thomas Jefferson
“The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.” – Franklin D.
Roosevelt
“To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget
ourselves.” -Mahatma Gandhi