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Nature's Solar Power and How it is Revolutionizing Agriculture"

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  Solar power is revolutionizing agriculture by providing a sustainable, cost-effective, and efficient energy source. This transformation is helping to modernize farming practices, enhance productivity, and promote environmental sustainability. Solar-powered irrigation: Solar water pumps: these pumps use solar panels to draw water from wells, rivers, or reservoirs, providing a reliable water source for irrigation even in remote areas. Drip and sprinkler irrigation systems: solar energy powers these systems, ensuring precise water delivery to crops, reducing water waste, and improving crop yields. Solar greenhouses: Greenhouses equipped with solar panels generate their own electricity, reducing dependency on external power sources. These greenhouses can maintain optimal growing conditions year-round, increasing the production of high-value crops. Solar-powered machinery: Solar energy can power electric tractors, harvesters, and other farm machinery, reducing reliance
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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL 15: LIFE ON LAND

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  The rising global demand for food to feed the 9 billion people that will populate the planet by 2050 combined with the continuing environmental and land degradation underlines the urgency for achieving a transformation toward sustainable land use. To ensure that no one is left behind we must endeavor to secure healthy and productive land. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development provides an opportunity to work globally towards this end. Examples of nature’s contributions to people, often referred to as ecosystem services, include the provision of food, raw materials, cultural identity and support for physical, mental and emotional health. Biodiversity enhances these services and indeed underpins many of them, e.g. pollination of crops. However, declining biodiversity and degraded ecosystems driven by such external pressures as development, pollution, and land use change are threatening especially poor and vulnerable communities, as narrowing sources of food, medicine
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Sustainable Development Goals 14:Life Below Water

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  Oceans are our planet’s life support and they help regulate the global climate sys­tem. They are the world’s largest ecosystem, home to nearly a million known species and containing vast untapped potential for scientific discovery. Oceans and fisheries continue to support the global popu­lation’s economic, social and environmental needs. Despite the critical impor­tance of conserving oceans, decades of irresponsible exploitation have led to an alarming level of degra­dation. Current efforts to protect key marine envi­ronments and small-scale fisheries, and to invest in ocean science are not yet meeting the urgent need to safeguard this vast, yet fragile, resource. The status of the ocean and several of its resources and functions have been deteriorating over the past century. Oceans, seas and coastal zones are subject to pollution, overexploitation and climate change impacts such as warming, coastal erosion, sea-level rise, ocean acidification and DE-oxygenation.   Su
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