Sustainable farming to enhance food and nutrition security

The sustainable intensification of agriculture appears to be an ideal approach to achieve food and nutrition security, preserve agrobiodiversity and maintain ecosystem health. A cafeteria approach based on distinct, place-based economic and agroecosystem dynamics is recommended. Crop diversification and conservation-based management benefits system productivity, profitability, and nutritional diversity, so as organic farming when a high percentage of legumes are included, and significantly food-competing feed-use and food wastage reduced. Resource-use efficient and nutritionally enhanced cultivars will ensure systems productivity, sustainability and nutritional security. Intensification through agroecology and adopting digital agriculture has the potential to improve agricultural productivity, nutrition security and ecosystem sustainability.