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Integrated and Sustainable Agriculture Farming (InSAF) Research Group is established on September 2019 under International Institute for Halal Research and Training (INHART) at the International Islamic University Malaysia. The group aim to work towards enhancing the culture of an integrated and sustainable farming system based on the Maqasid al-Shariah for food security application and sustainable development goals.

Sustainable agriculture (SA) is an agriculture practice that able to provide food at the present needs without compromising the needs of the future generation. The SA activities must be able to provide the need of society and bring economic profitability as well as maintaining a healthy environment. It is contradicting to the commercial agricultural practice where mass production was produced using mechanization, chemical pesticide and fertilizer, and at the same time has caused the topsoil degradation and ground-water contamination, health degradation among the society members and farm-workers, water depletion, and finally increase the farming cost gradually.

IIUM is a complex community comprising of low workers to high-level officers. The low-level worker is group into the poor urban community. Besides, IIUM also nests for students who came from a low-income family who sometimes only eat once a day. At the same time, the IIUM campus is blessed with many empty lands that still need high maintenance. Therefore, an integrated and sustainable farm may serve and solve few problems at the same time.

Objectives

1. Promotes Halal & Toyyiban Lifestyle

2. Contribute in enhancing national food security index without compromising the ecosystem

3. Enhance awareness on integrated and sustainable agriculture

4. Enhance communities knowledge on integrated & sustainable agriculture concept

5. Contribute in producing balance individual as mention by Falsafah Pendidikan Kebangsaan

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Any interest from local business or individual that would like to support InSAF project, please contact Prof. Azura at azuraamid@iium.edu.my

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