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The increasing food demand, at par with the increasing number of the populace calls for the sustainability of the food production. The agricultural sector serves to be an important mechanism in ensuring the readiness of food materials. To fulfil the food production at a grand scale, the increased forestry activities, water pollution, land quality degradation and the emission of greenhouse gases to the air has taken place. Sustainable agricultural practice is seen to be an effort in addressing this issue in preserving natural resources at the same time ensuring food security to the locals. By making specific reference to the program implemented by the Ministry of Agriculture and Agro-Based Industry Malaysia, this paper work intends to look closely into the sustainable agricultural industry carried out to strengthen food security in Malaysia. This agricultural practice is further carried out based on the Islamic sustainable development. The observation towards the report, development plan and the website of the Ministry of Agriculture and Basic Farming Industry Malaysia finds that the implementation of the sustainable agricultural practice program in Malaysia fulfils the sustainable development namely the environment, economy and social. However, from the philosophical perspective, this sustainable agricultural practice is not connected to the spiritual element that has become the mainstay in the Islamic sustainable development.
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To Cite this Article: Ismail, N. S. (2018). The Consolidating Mechanism of Food Security through Islamic Sustainability Agriculture: Malaysian Experience. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 8(5), 1152–1160.
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