Sustainability, sustainable agriculture, and the environment

Sustainability has always been the paradigm of sustainable agriculture that has played and still plays a decisive role in the conversion of unsustainable management models and practices, while at the same time responding to the needs of a living planet despite the constant growth of the population. For these ambitious goals, the challenges of equity and efficiency as fundamental components must also aim to reduce the gap for healthy eating in order to live in a healthier environment. Therefore, Sustainability, Sustainable Agriculture, and the Environment represent the vertices of a strictly interconnected system on which the progress acquired has shown widespread criticalities at a global level, in particular in the translation from theoretical principles to the practices of application, monitoring, and evaluation of results. The impact of climate change for which the sustainability of agriculture represents an important part of the solutions available in the short and medium term must be taken into high consideration on these aspects. In this perspective, the advanced study and educational program in the continuous search for innovations to be transferred to direct operators of agriculture appear as the most important need on which to turn the attention of technical and political decision-makers, identifying coordinated multidisciplinary actions and multistakeholder approaches to support of environmental compliance programs and measures.