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Climate change has created one of the biggest challenges to global agricultural sustainability, with increasing negative impacts on livelihoods and food security. The continued alteration of global climate and weather systems, as well as the ongoing reduction in global levels of agricultural diversity, has adversely affected world agricultural production systems. The challenge of modern-day agriculture has led to a renewed focus on community-based agricultural production systems. The greatest potential for positive adaptation to the threats of climate change is through the adoption of agro-ecological practices. Agro-ecology is the application of ecological principles to agricultural systems. Within the context of sustainable development, agro-ecology uses ecological knowledge, principles and agricultural systems to sustainably transform the world's agricultural production systems. Restructuring world agricultural production systems to make them more ecologically stable requires the adaptation of agricultural systems to reduce environmental degradation and to enhance the productivity of agricultural systems. The greatest bearing on the future of the world's agriculture is the restoration of the world's agricultural production systems to make them ecologically sustainable.