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Agricultural ethics is the area of practical ethics that examines agriculture. Although it is part of the wider area of food ethics, it concentrates on how food is produced. Agriculture is regarded as a major step in civilization that took place 10,000 years ago. It led to human settlement, the founding of cities and civilizations, and population growth. Estimates are that currently 40% of the land surface of the Earth is used for agriculture. Ethical queries concerning agriculture refer to a basic ethical dilemma. First, it is argued that to prevent hunger and malnutrition contemporary agriculture should produce more food because the world population is growing.
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ten Have, H., Patrão Neves, M. (2021). Agricultural Ethics. In: Dictionary of Global Bioethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54161-3_49
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