Infographic 1: Current trends in agriculture, Slovenia DO YOU KNOW the characteristics of conventional agriculture and its challenges? Key characteristics and challenges of conventional agriculture are: &bull; Unequal global distribution of (currently still sufficient) food production &bull; Chemisation of agriculture &bull; Soil erosion &bull; Reduction of agricultural area due to soil sealing &bull; The need to produce more food (due to growing population) &bull; Large water consumption in agriculture and food systems (according to some estimates, for producing 1 kg of wheat 900 litres, for producing 1 kg of maize 1,400 litres and for producing 1 kg of beef as much as 15,000 to 20,000 litres of water are needed 4) ) &bull; Energy intensity &bull; Relatively low number of persons employed in agriculture, etc.
Infografika 1: Aktualni trendi kmetijstva, Slovenija ALI VESTE, kakšne so značilnosti konvencionalnega kmetijstva in njegovi izzivi? Ključne značilnosti in izzivi konvencionalnega kmetijstva so naslednji: &bull; globalno neenaka razporeditev (za zdaj še zadostne) proizvodnje hrane, &bull; kemizacija dejavnosti, &bull; erozija prsti, &bull; zmanjševanje obsega kmetijskih zemljišč zaradi pozidave, &bull; potreba po večji količini proizvedene hrane (zaradi naraščajočega števila prebivalcev), &bull; velika poraba vode v kmetijskih prehranskih sistemih (za proizvodnjo kilograma pšenice naj bi bilo po nekaterih ocenah potrebnih 900 litrov vode, za proizvodnjo kilograma koruze 1.400 litrov vode, za proizvodnjo kilograma govedine pa kar 15.000 do 20.000 litrov vode 4) ), &bull; energetska intenzivnost, &bull; sorazmerno nizko število zaposlenih oseb ...