Contemporary challenges of human development and sustainability: a view from biodiversity, agriculture and food sovereignty.

Abstract

The development approach, from an accumulation perspective, has early roots in the industrial revolution, but it is after the Second World War, that the concept of development is adopted as a synonym for economic growth, being at the mercy of a relative mechanistic operative disposition to growth. However, the concept has evolved from human development and, a posteriori from a more comprehensive perspective, to sustainable human development, with which countries have made commitments to achieve development goals such as the Millennium Development Goals and the Sustainable Development Goals 2030.