Agriculture, Environment and Sustainable Development of Rural Areas

To make a balanced assessment of the agricultural progress towards sustainable development, the social, environment and economical factors that characterize the sustainability should be identified and examined in detail. Sustainable agriculture should aim at branch resources management in order to meet human needs, both present and future, by maintaining and improving at the same time the quality of the environment and by protecting natural resources. Among the many tasks that the agricultural science and practice face, significant importance is attached to the development of measures whose application should use energy efficiently and rationally, the adoption of techniques to ensure the continued recirculation of elements and materials, avoidance of both short and long term adverse effects of the damaging of agricultural land as a result of erosion and pollution and the promotion of agricultural systems correlated with certain food chains, that should ensure a rational, sufficient and balanced diet.