1 © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019 M. K. Jhariya et al. (eds.), Sustainable Agriculture, Forest and Environmental Management, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6830-1_1 M. K. Jhariya (*) · D. K. Yadav Department of Farm Forestry, Sarguja University, Ambikapur, Chhattisgarh, India A. Banerjee Department of Environmental Science, Sarguja University, Ambikapur, Chhattisgarh, India R. S. Meena Department of Agronomy, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India Agriculture, Forestry and Environmental Sustainability: A Way Forward Manoj Kumar Jhariya, Arnab Banerjee, Ram Swaroop Meena, and Dhiraj Kumar Yadav Contents 1 Introduction 3 2 Agriculture, Food and Environmental Security 5 3 Challenges for Agriculture Sustainability 7 4 Forestry 9 5 Challenges Towards Sustainability of Forests 15 6 Environment 17 7 Environmental Sustainability and Its Challenges 20 8 Green Growth Roadmap in Indian Perspective 21 9 Sustainability and Sustainable Development 23 10 Future Prospects of Research and Development Vis-a-vis Sustainable Management 24 11 Conclusion 25 References 26 Abstract Sustainability is a big issue in the modern context, with the focus to sustainable development for the earth will be clean and green. The issues of the environmen- tal damage, forest depletion and food security are all coming under the umbrella of sustainability. Approaches for the sustainable development are a need of time for proper environmental management, boosting up the agricultural productivity, and conservation of the forests with least harm to environment. Proper manage-