Recommendations for "Environment (62 results)"
Promote sustainability and improvement of all systems of production, including organic approaches, agro-ecological approaches, and sustainable intensification, so as to preserve biodiversity and ecosystems, minimize environmental degradation and reduce greenhouse gas emissions per unit of product;
2016
Reduce food loss and waste including by supporting the improvement of infrastructure and cold chain development, through consumer education, the dissemination of best practices, information, capacity development, and the transfer of technology as mutually agreed, including for smallholders and pastoralists, considering the most appropriate local technologies.
2016
Recognize, respect and protect those traditional production systems, including pastoral systems and their mobility strategies, that use ecosystems sustainably and contribute significantly to the FSN of their communities and associated ways of life;
2016
Restore degraded land and reduce deforestation by promoting sustainable grazing management, such as agro-silvopastoral systems, aiming at improved soil quality, carbon storage, pasture productivity, and conservation and storage of forages.
2016
Strengthen the development, conservation, sustainable use and management of livestock genetic resources in line with the Global Plan of Action for Animal Genetic Resources, stressing the importance of the Domestic Animal Diversity Information System (DAD-IS), and promote access and benefit-sharing for animal genetic resources for food and agriculture, in line with relevant internationally agreed treaties;
2016
Support revitalizing rural communities by preserving sustainable agriculture and forest landscapes, local and regional production systems, closely linked to the territory in order to reverse land degradation and avoid abandonment of rural areas.
2017
Reductions in food loss and waste, which account for about one-third of the global food supply, could help conserve resources and feed growing populations. In this context, it is necessary to transform food and agriculture systems shifting to more sustainable and diversified consumption and production patterns.
2017
Promote more productive and sustainable food systems, strengthen rules-based trade, and assist farmers in developing strategies, to strengthen their resilience, with a focus on risk management policies, and on rural development policies targeting the most vulnerable rural and farming population.
2017
Support ecosystem restoration, conservation and protection of biodiversity and sustainable use of genetic and natural resources, especially soil and water, as important tools for developing more productive, competitive, resilient, sustainable and high quality agriculture and as necessary components of agricultural risk management.
2017
Encourage the application of sustainable agricultural practices that have a beneficial impact and contribute to improve resilience and climate change mitigation and adaptation.
2017
Sustainable land management, including forest and wetlands, is an important measure to undertake in crop production, soil conservation, fertility and restoration and the regulation of nutrients and quality and quantity of water in order to maintain and restore biodiversity and to enhance resilience to extreme weather events, as well as to mitigate the emission of greenhouse gases, including through carbon sequestration.
2018
Given that the majority of agricultural development assistance projects support conventional or industrial agricultural approaches, work to support more projects that encourage agroecology and other sustainable forms of agriculture.
2020
Include support for individual and community responses, such as home and community gardens.
2020
Agroecology as a crisis response: As disease and climate threats multiply, agroecology can be positioned as a systemic solution to prevent and build resilience to future shocks.
2020
Reduce emissions from manure left on pasture: Increase research funding, Create private regulatory incentives
2019
Focus on realistic options to sequester carbon in agricultural soils
2019
Properly identify “marginal and unimprovable” agricultural lands for reforestation
2019
Provide guidance on food storage and preparation
2019
Integrate more native species in reforestation efforts
2019
Make cosmetic standards more amenable to selling imperfect food (e.g., produce with irregular shapes or blemishes)
2019
Reduce emissions from fertilizers by increasing nitrogen use efficiency
2019
Conversion-free supply chains: Mobilize buyers, traders, and financiers of agricultural commodities to purchase or finance only commodities not linked to deforestation or other ecosystem conversions.
2019
Actively support farmer-assisted regeneration
2019
Convert unmarketable crops into value-added products
2019
Finance: Structure domestic and international financing to simultaneously support yield gains and natural ecosystem protection and/or restoration.
2019
Increase agricultural energy efficiency and shift to non-fossil energy sources
2019
Strengthen understanding: Evidence of which practices truly work for farmers and help to restore productivity is weak in much of Africa. Data about the costs and benefits are mostly lacking for both technical and social outcomes and obstacles. One way to improve understanding is for donor agencies to build this kind of technical and socioeconomic analysis into their project budgets for monitoring and evaluation.
2019
Better peatlands data and mapping
2019
Increase communication and outreach (amplify the voice of champions, facilitate peer-to-peer learning, use technology to directly communicate with farmers)
2019
Resources: Restoration requires resources both to fund the physical restoration and, usually, to compensate in some way existing users of the land for their forgone uses
2019
Improve harvesting techniques
2019
Increase financing for innovation and scaling of promising technologies
2019
Political commitment: Restoring peatlands, like most other infrastructure projects, has high potential to arouse opposition from some parties, even if the benefits to the public are clear and the project has the support of the vast majority of those directly affected. Efforts to move forward must be sensitive to issues of equity and seek participation and consent but should respect majority support.
2019
Improve access to infrastructure and markets
2019
Create partnerships to manage seasonal variability (e.g., bumper crops)
2019
Improve packaging to keep food fresher for longer, optimize portion size, and gauge safety
2019
Reduce enteric fermentation through new technologies: Recommend that governments provide incentives to the private sector by promising to require use of compounds if and when they prove to mitigate emissions at a reasonable cost.
2019
Target reforestation and peatland restoration: Reforestation at a scale necessary to hold temperature rise below 1.5 degrees Celsius (i.e., hundreds of millions of hectares) is potentially achievable but only if the world succeeds in reducing projected growth in demand for resource-intensive agricultural products and boosting crop and livestock yields.
2019
Introduce energy-efficient, low-carbon cold chains
2019
Reprocess or repackage food not meeting specifications
2019
Use land, water, nutrients, and pesticides more efficiently
2017
More effective use of ecosystems services (e.g. integrated pest management to reduce pesticide use)
2016
Better feed conversion (without reducing animal welfare) and higher productivity of pastoral systems.
2016
Higher nutrient efficiency along the food chain (e.g. better recycling of minerals in animal manure, use of by-products or food wastes as feed or compost, recycling of minerals from cities, etc.).
2016
Revalue the pricing of environmental externalities, reinforce legislation to prevent pollution and other forms of environmental degradation and remove subsidies that provide disincentives for better resource efficiency.
2016
More efficient aquaculture systems, with lower nutrient losses and less impact on coastal systems.
2016
More energy- and water-efficient food processing.
2016
Research and innovate, to decouple food production from resource use and environmental impacts, and to replace certain inputs (such as pesticides) with ecosystem services
2016
Reframe thinking by promoting ‘resource-smart food systems’ in which ‘Climate-Smart Agriculture’ (CSA) plays one part, and search for linkages to new dominant values such as ‘wellbeing’ and ‘health’.
2016
Rebuild feedback loops by functional and informative monitoring and reporting, at various levels, such as countries, cities and companies.
2016
Reduction of food losses in farms and fisheries, and reduction of food waste throughout food systems.
2016
Reconnect mineral flows between urban areas and rural areas, as well as between crop and livestock production.
2016