Short answers, pulled from the story.
The United States Department of Agriculture issued a formal definition for sustainable agriculture in 1977. This document described an integrated system of plant and animal production practices with site-specific applications.
Agricultural practices consume sixty-nine percent of the world's fresh water supply. In many areas, such as the Ogallala Aquifer, water is used faster than it can be naturally replenished.
Conventional tillage can increase soil erosion rates to over one hundred times the natural formation speed. Soil erosion from fields is estimated to be ten times higher than formation rates under no-tillage methods.
In 2007, women operated fourteen percent of farms in the United States compared to five percent in 1978. Much of this growth occurred outside the male-dominated field of conventional agriculture.
In May 2020, the European Union published a program named From Farm to Fork. This initiative targets making twenty-five percent of EU agriculture organic by 2030.