Title: Environmental impact of agriculture - Wikipedia
Headings: Environmental impact of agriculture
Environmental impact of agriculture
Contents
By agricultural practice
Animal agriculture
Irrigation
Pesticides
By environmental issue
Climate change
Deforestation
Genetic engineering
Pollutants
Soil degradation
Tillage erosion
Waste
Issues by region
Sustainable agriculture
Regenerative agriculture
Techniques
Conservation tillage
Biological pest control
See also
References
Further reading
External links

Content: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture ". The United Nations Environment Programme 's 2021 "Making Peace with Nature" report highlighted agriculture as both a driver and an industry under threat from environmental degradation. Contents
1 By agricultural practice
1.1 Animal agriculture
1.2 Irrigation
1.3 Pesticides
2 By environmental issue
2.1 Climate change
2.2 Deforestation
2.3 Genetic engineering
2.4 Pollutants
2.5 Soil degradation
2.5.1 Tillage erosion
2.6 Waste
2.7 Issues by region
3 Sustainable agriculture
3.1 Regenerative agriculture
3.2 Techniques
3.2.1 Conservation tillage
3.2.2 Biological pest control
4 See also
5 References
6 Further reading
7 External links
By agricultural practice
Animal agriculture
This section is an excerpt from Environmental impact of meat production [ edit]
The environmental impact of meat production varies because of the wide variety of agricultural practices employed around the world. All agricultural practices have been found to have a variety of effects on the environment. Some of the environmental effects that have been associated with meat production are pollution through fossil fuel usage, animal methane, effluent waste, and water and land consumption. Meat is obtained through a variety of methods, including organic farming, free range farming, intensive livestock production, subsistence agriculture, hunting, and fishing . Nutritional value and environmental impact of animal products, compared to agriculture overall
Categories
Contribution of farmed animal product [%]
Calories
18
Proteins
37
Land use
83
Greenhouse gases
58
Water pollution
57
Air pollution
56
Freshwater withdrawals
33
Meat is considered one of the prime factors contributing to the current biodiversity loss crisis. The 2019 IPBES Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services found that industrial agriculture and overfishing are the primary drivers of the extinction, with the meat and dairy industries having a substantial impact. The 2006 report Livestock's Long Shadow, released by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, states that "the livestock sector is a major stressor on many ecosystems and on the planet as a whole. Globally it is one of the largest sources of greenhouse gases (GHG) and one of the leading causal factors in the loss of biodiversity, and in developed and emerging countries it is perhaps the leading source of water pollution ."