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Agriculture will need to be further intensified inorder to meet a growing world population’s demandsfor food and agricultural products. Yet intensificationin itself, if not properly managed, carries the risk ofdegrading natural resources and leading to decreasedfood security. It can also have important socioeconomicconsequences, particularly in relation torural livelihoods. In making policy decisions with theaim of achieving sustainable agriculturalintensification, planners must therefore identify andevaluate alternative strategies, in terms both of theirimmediate and longer-term impacts and theirimplications for all social groups concerned.There is therefore a clear ethical dimensionto such policy formulation.This issue of the FAO Ethics Series explores threepossible approaches to an ethical analysis ofagricultural intensification strategies. Human foodneeds provide the basis for a utilitarian argument forintensification, while the moral concept of virtueaddresses people’s duty to work for the good ofsociety. A rights-based analysis then reveals howindividuals’ pursuit of such good can be constrainedby the rights of others. Fostering debate around theseapproaches helps us to articulate and, ultimately, toassume ethical responsibilities for the intensificationof agriculture.
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