Recommendations for "Sustainable Production (364 results)"
Focus on operational elements of agroecology as first steps in a well-sequenced transformation strategy, encouraging broader uptake to exploit windows of opportunity for spreading agroecology in different institutions and settings by drawing on the context-specific nature of agroecology. Building some element of system redesign – including the socioeconomic and political components of agroecology – into projects, at least in subsequent phases, can provide a guarantee of meaningful engagement with food system transformation.
2020
Use entry points such as climate change adaptation, human and environmental health, biodiversity conservation, natural resource management, equity and social inclusion to establish dialogues with wide-ranging stakeholders around the multidimensional benefits of agroecological research for development.
2020
Focus on core practices and principles (e.g., closing natural resource cycles, agroforestry, diversification of crops and livelihoods, inter-cropping and crop rotation, push-pull technology, system of rice intensification, circular economy, co-creation of knowledge, localised food web, gender equity, inclusive decision-making) in order to introduce agroecology to new actors in a way that emphasises its practical applicability and compatibility with existing organisational goals and strategies.
2020
Emphasize agroecology’s contribution to normative commitments like the SDGs and the Paris Agreement as well as to protecting biodiversity through phasing out synthetic agrochemicals.
2020
Support organisations in their journey towards agroecology by assisting them to build increasingly systemic approaches into subsequent phases of their programming.
2020
Capture the benefits of agroecology by measuring food system outcomes holistically, equipping donors and research institutes with the tools to identify agroecological AgR4D and measure its outcomes.
2020
Improve transparency and accountability as to how AgR4D projects are funded, how they are monitored and how their impacts are measured, e.g., through an extended common reporting system.
2020
Invite policymakers and funders to visit projects and get first-hand information about the added value of agroecological research projects; engage policymakers in sustained dialogue to challenge and counter the other perspectives influencing their thinking.
2020
Initiate an alliance to formulate principles and guidelines for agroecological research and to monitor practices.
2020
Showcase agroecological success stories in a way that highlights the economic viability and scalability of agroecology, as well as the feasibility of carrying out systemic agroecological research projects.
2020
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
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
Enhance the role of grazing systems in the provision of ecosystem services, including carbon storage, by improving the sustainable management of biodiversity, soil and water.
2016
Identify options for improving efficiency throughout food systems, while minimizing negative environmental impacts and optimize the efficient use of energy, water, nitrogen and other natural resources
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
Promote integrated agricultural systems making better use of natural resources, halting deforestation, restoring degraded lands, improving soil quality, and fostering the sustainable management of water resources.
2016
Enable pastoralists’ mobility, including transboundary passage as appropriate; securing access to land, water, markets and services, adaptive land management, and facilitate responsible governance of common resources, in accordance with national and international laws;
2016
Encourage the appropriate intake of animal sourced foods, that is culturally acceptable, for healthy diets and improved nutrition, including through awareness-raising and education in the context of promoting sustainable agriculture and livestock production in accordance with SDG 12;
2016
Improve animal health management including biosafety and biosecurity, particularly focusing on infectious diseases, zoonosis, and reducing exposure to environmental hazards, by following OIE (World Organization for Animal Health) standards, and the One Health approach;
2016
Promote access to good quality feed, and facilitate training on sustainable feeding practices.
2016
Enhance the effectiveness, sustainability, and resilience of pastoral systems for food security and nutrition;
2016
Strengthen integration of livestock with crops, including by more integration of legumes in crop rotation and inter-cropping, and forests – agro-silvopastoral systems – at different scales, including on farm, across watersheds and ecosystems, and provide benefits in terms of addressing input and energy needs in a sustainable manner, including through the use of draught power and the use of manure as fertilizer;
2016
Promote manure management and the use of by-products and re-use and recycling of waste, as appropriate, while protecting water and air quality, and improving soil health.
2016
Reduce pressure on resources by promoting the efficiency of feed crop production and feed use and the sustainable use of appropriate by-products for feed;
2016
Ensure that working and living conditions meet national and internationally agreed labor standards and reduce occupational hazards and other harmful effects on workers across the value chain;
2016
Greater emphasis needs to be placed on improving smallholders’ productivity through stronger links to input and output markets; better access to rural infrastructure and agricultural services; and access to capital and capacity building, especially among young people in agriculture.
2013
Shift the focus of financing efforts toward more medium- and long-term financing mechanisms to support commercially oriented capital investments by smallholders, such as machinery and storage facilities, which are critical for increasing productivity and modernizing smallholder agriculture
2013
As labor becomes more expensive and moves out of agriculture in transforming and transformed economies, policies are needed to reorient the economies away from labor-intensive agricultural practices toward a more knowledge-based and mechanized agricultural model.
2013
Policies in transformed countries should place more emphasis on promoting consumer awareness of food waste.
2013
Address the factors that drive up the cost of nutritious foods by supporting food producers – especially small-scale producers – to get nutritious foods to markets at low cost, making sure people have access to these food markets, and making food supply chains work for vulnerable people – from small-scale producers to the billions of consumers whose income is insufficient to afford healthy diets.
2020
Enact policies in support of sustainable food consumption and food waste reduction directed at both consumers and retailers to encourage healthy diets with sustainability considerations.
2020
Reducing food prices by addressing low productivity in food production may increase the overall supply of food, including nutritious foods, and raise incomes, especially for poorer family farmers and smallholder producers in low-income and lower-middle-income countries. Analyzing diversification toward the production of horticultural products, legumes, small-scale fisheries, aquaculture, livestock and other nutritious food products may also be an effective way to reduce food prices by supplying diverse and nutritious foods in markets.
2020
Reducing pre-harvest and post-harvest losses in quantity and quality at the production level in the agriculture, fisheries and forestry sectors is an important starting point to reduce the cost of nutritious foods along the food supply chain, as this decreases the overall availability of these foods – while possibly contributing to environmental sustainability as well.
2020
Access to knowledge in improved and more sustainable farming techniques, including climate-smart production methods, are key to increasing productivity and maintaining profitability, and producing marketable surpluses at reduced costs, while increasing the resilience of food systems.
2020
Investments in R&D should be accompanied by research and extension services that make it possible for producers to adopt more sustainable production methods that conserve natural resources, in particular soil and water, as well as biodiversity.
2020
Policies and investments must focus on improving nutrition outcomes among the population for example those that facilitate diversified and integrated food and agricultural production systems, empower women and youth in food and agriculture, and provide incentives for increased production of fruits and vegetables, as well as small-scale livestock, agroforestry, aquaculture and fisheries products.
2020
Agricultural policies that encourage a move away from monoculture towards more integrated production techniques, such as agroforestry and rice-fish farming, should be considered as this helps reduce the cost of production, increase food producers’ incomes and resilience, provide ecosystem services, and increase dietary diversity.
2020
Productivity increases, in conjunction with more trade and competition, bring about increases in the availability of safe and nutritious food and drive its price down, resulting in improvements in access to food. For many people, this process results in improved food security and better diets, since it increases access to foods rich in micronutrients such as fruits, vegetables and animal‑sourced foods.
2020
Policies and investments to achieve structural transformation that diversifies the economy away from commodity dependence, while fostering poverty reduction and more egalitarian societies including: Transforming agriculture and food systems such that the type of commodities produced contribute to improved access to more nutritious foods; Policies that facilitate trade should also help achieve nutrition objectives; Integrating food security and nutrition concerns into poverty reduction efforts, while increasing synergies between poverty reduction, hunger and malnutrition eradication
2019
Promoting poor farmers’ productivity increases the production and the availability of food for the poor at the national level; however, this depends on the potential of the production frontier, type of crop and the market where agricultural production is sold.
2019
Increase sustainable production and productivity of safe, nutritious, diverse, and culturally acceptable food, and reduce food loss and waste.
2014
Promote sustainable patterns of consumption and production to achieve sustainable development.
2014
Reduce waste and losses in production and post-harvest operations, and enhance the efficiency of production, the sustainability of consumption, and the productive use of waste and/or by-products.
2014
Integrate traditional and scientific knowledge with best practices and technologies through different approaches, including agro-ecological approaches and sustainable intensification, among others.
2014
Support animal health and welfare, and plant health, to sustainably increase productivity, product quality, and safety.
2014
Improve the management of agricultural inputs and outputs, to enhance the efficiency of production and minimize potential threats to the environment and to plant, animal, and human health, including occupational hazards.
2014
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
In order to foster investments in rural areas and in the agri-food sector, we encourage the exchange of best practices, including sustainable production methods, technology, workforce development, dissemination of information on financial tools and business opportunities, and the involvement of relevant stakeholders, including with countries with a high prevalence of food insecurity
2017
Promote and recognize the various roles of sustainable agriculture and rural areas, including conservation of biodiversity and characteristic landscapes for future generations as well as urban-rural linkages.
2016
Support both farming and non-farming activities and develop good practices and models, committing to expanding farming opportunities and revitalizing rural communities, improving sustainable agricultural production/productivity and food supply capacity, and supporting the sustainability of agriculture, forestry and fisheries.
2016
Optimize and sustainably utilize assets in rural areas. Increasing sustainable agricultural production and value addition in the agri-food sector cannot be achieved without secure access to and efficient use of assets in rural areas. Sustainable use of natural resources, such as land, soil and water, is an essential basis of high-performing agricultural activities.
2016
Reduce food loss and waste, utilizing the launch of the Technical Platform on the Measurement and Reduction of Food Losses and Waste, which FAO and The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) developed, and share value-added approaches.
2016
Promote climate-smart, organic and ecosystem-based agriculture, where possible, and contribute to biodiversity and the health of global ecosystems, sharing best practices and evaluation methodologies.
2016
Promote sustainable practices in aquaculture and sustainable fisheries resource management through appropriate stock management, relevant regional fisheries management organizations and other international frameworks. Commit to efforts to ensure the implementation of measures and regulations aimed at preventing illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing and encourage third countries and dedicated regional and international organizations to step up efforts.
2016
Promote infrastructure, better services and the use of context-adapted technologies that will free up women’s time, including irrigation, multiple-use water systems, increased energy access and innovative and sustainable agricultural production and processing technologies.
2016
Mainstream climate-smart practices in agriculture and food security programmes and support the development of methodologies for effective monitoring of environmental and agricultural impacts.
2016
Support existing mechanisms, platforms and institutions that enhance research and development, and knowledge exchange for climate change, natural resource management and agriculture, recognizing the importance of the Global Alliance for Climate Smart Agriculture, the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security and the 4/1000 Initiative.
2016
Increase the focus on responsible investment to establish and improve environmentally-friendly and disaster-resilient quality infrastructure, across food value chains, emphasizing the reduction of food loss and waste and GHG emissions, while taking into consideration the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030.
2016
We underline the importance of increasing public and private investment in sustainable agriculture, rural development and environmental protection in cooperation with international organisations. It is essential to tackle climate change impacts and ensure sustainable management of water, forests and other natural resources, while considering demographic growth.
2009
Farmers must be the main protagonists of the agricultural sector. Agriculture must serve citizens’ needs for food security and food safety, producing safe, nutritious food in response to consumer demand and must not be allowed to be negatively affected by trade distortions.
2009
Support efforts against wastage along the food chain in developing countries, particularly for post-harvest losses, in order to avoid food loss reducing the quantities of commodities required by food chains and to improve hygiene, health and nutrition. We also support efforts to reduce wastage, in developed countries.
2009
Targeted policies to guarantee effective management and sustainable utilization of natural resources involving local communities in accordance with their identities. This pattern of growth also meets the requirements of less developed rural areas where local sustainable production should be improved.
2009
Accelerate the adaptation of agriculture and food systems to climate change, as increased climate variability and extreme weather events impact agriculture output and are among the forces driving the rise in global hunger, while recognizing the importance of sustainable agriculture.
2021
Accelerate policies fostering territorial and gender sensitive adaptation, promoting more integrated farming systems, climate sensitive, agro-ecological and other innovative approaches as appropriate, supporting biodiversity as a source of climate resilience, fast-tracking the implementation of the agriculture and food-systems related parts of adaptation plans, as well as promoting effective funding from climate finance to foster climate adaptation in the food and agriculture sector of developing countries in the light of different national circumstances.
2021
Improve handling, storage, processing and preservation to enhance value chain efficiency and resilience, reduce post-harvest losses, food loss and waste and ensure food safety to increase the availability, accessibility and affordability of nutritious foods.
2021
Sustainably developed FVCs that increase efficiency and productivity, and in particular, reduce food loss and waste, can contribute to the fight against food insecurity, increase natural resource efficiency and reduce greenhouse gases (GHG) emission.
2019
Support the implementation and the application of internationally accepted principles and good practices where appropriate, including Committee on World Food Security (CFS)- Voluntary Guidelines for the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security, CFS-Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems, and OECD-FAO Guidance for Responsible Agricultural Supply Chains.
2019
Need for innovation toward sustainability of the agro-food sector
2019
Need for focusing on agro-food value chains toward inclusive and sustainable growth of the agro-food sector
2019
Encourage cooperation with civil society and private actors to prevent food loss and waste at the processing, retail and consumer level, and sharing practices and technology regarding the reduction of pre-and post-harvest losses with developing countries.
2019
Welcome the work of the Technical Platform on the Measurement and Reduction of Food Loss and Waste.
2019
Improve opportunities to diversify agri-food production and increase productivity, production, incomes and employment in a sustainable manner.
2018
Enhance regenerative, sustainable land, soil and water management and the sustainable use of biodiversity.
2018
Promote sustainable agriculture and the fight against climate change through collaborative partnerships, encouraging interdisciplinary approaches and involving farmers in the co-development and evaluation of sustainable agriculture systems, to accelerate the adoption of new technologies and management practices, and to revitalize sustainable traditional farming systems.
2018
It is important to improve land tenure security and integrated water management, technical training and the adoption of innovative and sustainable agricultural practices, involving farmers in the co-development and evaluation of sustainable agriculture systems.
2018
Embark on a voluntary basis on country specific or regional strategies for sustainable crop management that reconcile the objectives of increasing productivity with the protection of soils, water and biodiversity as well as with improving the resilience against climate stress and to share experiences and best practices in this regard.
2018
The bioeconomy based on the responsible use of natural resources and the conversion of agricultural waste streams into value added products has the potential to significantly contribute to achieving food security and, furthermore, it can be effectively used to develop rural spaces and economies, and to meet ambitious environmental goals.
2018
Land-use management, and secure land tenure, are valuable tools for sustainable soil management. Loss of agricultural land, including soil sealing, due to urban expansion, and infrastructure development, which is often carried out at the expense of fertile agricultural soil, can be a threat to potential agricultural production, and its associated ecosystem services. Therefore, an open discussion of this topic, promoting consensus, to facilitate the sustainable use potential, as a basis for the establishment and progress of our society is strongly encouraged.
2018
Food loss and waste requires a comprehensive food systems approach, covering all levels of the agri-food value chains, from production in the field, through harvest and postharvest, storage, transport, processing and distribution, and up to the consumer level; including prevention and awareness-raising, as a priority in policy development, in order to reach sustainable food systems.
2018
Encourage the development and optimization of national agriculture and food security strategies and plans aimed at improving effectiveness and efficiency in the agrifood sector, including through the reduction of food loss and waste.
2016
Extend models as appropriate for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, including inheriting and developing good farming practices, such as the FAO’s Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) initiative and support the implementation of the WHO’s global action plan on antimicrobial resistance.
2016
Proactively improve farming techniques and organizational modes to boost agricultural productivity growth sustainably and meet the demand for sufficient, safe and nutritious food.
2016
Promote institutional innovation in improving agricultural production systems, giving full play to the active role of all types of food producers, enhancing the degree of sustainable agricultural intensification and organization, and better enabling family farmers and smallholders, in particular, women and young people, to integrate into the food value chain
2016
Support efforts which aim to sustainably increase smallholder farmers’ productivity, enhance the enabling environment for collective action and organization and integration to markets, promote their access to innovations, appropriate inputs, finance, technology and services on gender-equal basis, and strengthen their resilience towards external shocks.
2016
Support sustainable productivity growth, especially for smallholder farmers, including through sharing knowledge of successful policies, technologies and practices and encouraging their adaptation and adoption.
2015
Commit to reducing food loss and waste globally. While recognizing that appropriate measures may vary from country to country, priority should be given to prevention and recovery and redistribution of safe and nutritious otherwise wasted food to feed people.
2015
Establish a technical platform, building on existing platforms and relevant to both G20 members and low income and developing countries, for sharing information and experiences in measuring and reducing food loss and waste, and call for its effective operation by the relevant international organizations as soon as possible.
2015
Promote sustainable increases in productivity and production, use natural resources more efficiently, increase resilience and help address climate change in accordance with the UNFCCC.
2015
Pursue a comprehensive food systems approach taking into consideration the entirety of food value chains from production through food processing and distribution to retailing and consumption.
2015
Strengthen past initiatives to support agricultural productivity growth where appropriate. Support their extension as appropriate to include the whole food system, for example in the areas of processing, storage and distribution, and to consider the special needs of vulnerable farmers, which may include smallholders and family farmers, in the broader context of inclusive and sustainable rural development
2015
Reduce food loss and waste, recalling CFS’s Policy Recommendations on Food Loss and Waste. In the context of policy coherence, the DWG should continue its efforts to develop actions to reduce food loss and waste as part of its Implementation Plan for the G20 FSN Framework.
2015
While specific actions to combat food loss and waste may vary by country and food system, priority of action should be based on prevention and recovery of safe and nutritious wasted food to feed people rather than re-purposing it for other uses. Promote this hierarchy of action to improve food system efficiencies and reduce food insecurity, taking into account national circumstances and market-based approaches.
2015
There is value in a common definition and measurement framework that G20 members can consider in order to establish coherent estimates of food loss and waste against which they can monitor progress in the reduction of food loss and waste.
2015
To better target interventions to reduce food loss and waste, there is a need for better estimates of the economic and physical magnitude of food loss and waste and a shared understanding of their economic, social and environmental impacts and their underlying drivers.
2015
Sharing country experiences in reducing food loss and waste, including through policy incentives, infrastructure investments, market innovations, consumer education, recovery and redistribution of otherwise lost or wasted food for people to eat, business incentives and private sector investments, will also facilitate global efforts to tackle this issue.
2015
FAO together with IFPRI and other relevant international organizations should establish a platform, building on existing systems, for sharing information and experiences in measuring and reducing food loss and waste. This platform should include experiences of G20 members and other countries and also focus on low-income developing countries.
2015
The OECD and other relevant international organizations should continue to support the development of the G20 initiated framework for improving agricultural productivity sustainably.
2015
Emphasize quality food production when making public investments in agriculture
2020
Support transition to agroecology and other innovations for sustainable and resilient food production methods, to gradually overcome the overuse of natural resources for food production.
2020
Take measures to reduce food losses and waste by at least half, especially postharvest losses in developing countries and consumer food waste in industrialized countries.
2020
Take measures to protect existing and especially threatened agricultural biodiversity.
2020
Encourage more sustainable agriculture in the most vulnerable ecosystems, including, for example, mountain and dryland environments, small island developing states and low-lying coastal areas.
2020
Recognize increased water scarcity and take immediate measures to rationalize and optimize use of scarce water resources, as well as water management, in agriculture and food systems.
2020
Support local communities and citizens to increase local food production and consumption.
2020
Facilitate the supply of nutritionally diverse, minimally processed staple foods such as fresh, seasonal and local fruits and vegetables.
2020
Facilitate the supply of a culturally acceptable, diverse basket of foods of both plant and animal origin to ensure sustainable diets (i.e. both healthy and environmentally sustainable).
2020
Support private and public sector investment in, and state-facilitated development of, peri-urban and urbanagriculture in order to bring fresh foods, especially perishable horticultural products that are rich in micronutrients, closer to markets.
2020
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
Provide policy space and support to countries seeking to improve their domestic food production capacity within their ecological boundaries in the medium and longer-term.
2020
Support the development of an agroecology curriculum at schools of agriculture in a range of countries.
2020
Need to increase the level of agricultural productivity for the 67% or rural youth who live in the highest-productivity areas and areas offering diverse and remunerative opportunities
2019
Promoting sustainable management of natural resources
2016
Promoting the intensification of sustainable agricultural management practices requires the design of farm- and community-level mechanisms through which smallholders can address the trade-offs between individual productivity and increased collective sustainability
2013
Removing policy barriers to sustainable agricultural growth requires the design of market-based mechanisms that provide smallholders with proper incentives to invest in sustainability. Removing subsidies on unsustainable fertilizers and subsidizing practices that encourage soil and water conservation can help small producers green their own supply chains (agricultural inputs, feed and drip irrigation). Similarly, expanding fair or green certification schemes would allow products originating from smallholders to compete in new niche markets locally and internationally
2013
Building resilience through diversity and agroecology: Healthy soils, diverse crop varieties and livestock breed, vibrant aquatic and agro-ecosystems
2021
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
Food sovereignty, territorial development, and a new economic paradigm: As economic orthodoxies are questioned and new priorities and paradigms gradually take root, favorable conditions for agroecology could start to emerge.
2020
Interventions to reduce post-harvest losses, including storage, to improve returns from sales, and to support the mix of services provided by SMEs, such as cooperatives, traders, and processors.
2020
Enhance the performance of producer organizations
2008
Promote innovation through science and technology
2008
Make agriculture more sustainable and a provider of environmental services
2008
Reduce emissions through improved manure management.
2019
Reduce emissions from manure left on pasture: Increase research funding, Create private regulatory incentives
2019
Reduce emissions from fertilizers by increasing nitrogen use efficiency
2019
Increase agricultural energy efficiency and shift to non-fossil energy sources
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
Convert unmarketable crops into value-added products
2019
Improve harvesting techniques
2019
Create partnerships to manage seasonal variability (e.g., bumper crops)
2019
Increase capacity building to accelerate transfer of the best practices to reduce food loss and waste
2019
Reengineer manufacturing processes during industrial or domestic processing and/or packaging to reduce food loss and waste
2019
Improve supply chain management during industrial or domestic processing and/or packaging to reduce food loss and waste
2019
Reprocess or repackage food not meeting specifications
2019
Change food date labelling practices
2019
Make cosmetic standards more amenable to selling imperfect food (e.g., produce with irregular shapes or blemishes)
2019
Pursue new models for increasing soil carbon in depleted croplands.
2019
Raise productivity: Increased efficiency of natural resources use is the single most important step toward meeting both food production and environmental goals
2019
Link agricultural intensification with natural ecosystems protection: To ensure that food production is increased through yield growth (intensification) not through expansion, and that productivity gains do not encourage more shifting, governments must explicitly link efforts to boost crop and pasture yields with legal measures to protect forests, savannas, and peatlands from conversion to agriculture
2019
Require production-related climate mitigation: Management measures exist to significantly reduce GHG emissions from agricultural production sources, particularly enteric fermentation by ruminants, and from manure, nitrogen fertilizers, and energy use. These measures require a variety of incentives and regulations, deployed at scale. Implementation will require far more detailed analysis and tracking of agricultural production systems within countries.
2019
Integrate programs to support intensification with a greater focus on feed quality
2019
Increase investment in technological innovation and transfer
2019
Adopt regulations immediately to require improved manure management on all new farms, as well as on all medium and large concentrated livestock farms that currently use wet manure management systems,
2019
Build spatial databases of large concentrated livestock facilities.
2019
Use land, water, nutrients, and pesticides more efficiently
2017
Enhancing the adaptive capacity of communities and ecosystems through a mix of conservation, sustainable management, and restoration of land resources.
2017
Providing incentives for the sustainable consumption and production of natural resources. Land degradation neutrality or no net loss of healthy and productive land means more services onsite and less negative environmental or social impacts offsite.
2017
Optimizing the most desirable suite of ecosystem services from food production activities. This requires a fundamental shift in agriculture practices to support a wider array of social, environmental, and economic benefits from managing land-based natural capital.
2017
Close the gap between actual and potential yield in all environments
2017
Stop expanding the agricultural frontier
2017
Reward sustainable land management practices
2017
Implement integrated landscape management approaches
2017
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
More efficient aquaculture systems, with lower nutrient losses and less impact on coastal systems.
2016
More energy- and water-efficient food processing.
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
Reconnect mineral flows between urban areas and rural areas, as well as between crop and livestock production.
2016
Reduction of food losses in farms and fisheries, and reduction of food waste throughout food systems.
2016
Remove subsidies that encourage unsustainable production or practices (e.g. fossil fuel subsidies).
2016
‘Sustainable intensification’ of crop production (e.g. higher yields without increasing environmental impacts).
2016
Support should be given to the promotion of sustainable smallholder livestock production systems in low- and middle-income countries.
2021
Protocols and simple input-output models should be developed that can easily map animal and animal-sources foods production systems in terms of their degree of circularity. Such models can inform accounts of pathways towards more circular food systems.
2021
Mechanisms should be put in place that create incentives for markets and corporations to provide animal-sourced foods for healthy and sustainable diets. Such mechanisms can be based on national dietary guidelines.
2021
Enhance a transformation towards sustainable production based on principles of circularity to move away from maximizing agricultural output to optimizing natural resource use.
2021
Support nutrient recycling in production and food systems with knowledge development, innovation programmes and market-support measures.
2021
Reduce food losses based on the objective of doing so, and on product group and value chain segment, by combining focused technical interventions with increased services for agrologistics, finance and training, bearing in mind that the evidence base is still shaky.
2021
Greater integration of sustainable production criteria into trade practices will require both exporting and importing countries to embrace more commonly established sustainability standards to declare the standards binding and to include them in bilateral or regional trade agreements.
2021
Provide market incentives for SME investments to strengthen more circular and sustainable food systems. Midstream SMEs generate substantial environmental externalities through agrochemical use and through unresolved trade-offs between packaging materials and food waste. Investments in better equipment, technical innovations and knowledge can help midstream SMEs meet sustainability standards.
2021
Enhance midstream contributions for food system sustainability through long-term delivery contracts that support mutual relationships and co-investments with upstream or downstream partners.
2021
The “hidden middle” of midstream agrifood enterprises needs support to fill the “missing middle” in agrifood support services. Beyond improved access to material services, shared norms – for the establishment of mutual trust, reliable transactions and transparent relationships – are critical to reduce risks of collusion and exclusion. Food system transformation will succeed only if SMEs can overcome discriminatory norms and practices.
2021
Support the moderate intake of processed foods and UPFs through incentives for responsible business innovation processes and standard setting facilities for the food environment – because producers are most likely to respond positively to a combination of enabling and constraining incentives.
2021
Use incentives to promote agroecological and other innovative practices in food systems technologies, practices and organizational modalities with the explicit intent to generate new, decent jobs and enhance the quality of existing jobs for youth.
2021
Dramatically reduce food loss and waste.
2021
Innovative mechanisms to reduce climate-related risks, widespread adoption of climate-smart and environmentally sound production techniques, and the conservation and rehabilitation of natural environments will strengthen the resilience of food systems against increased climate variability and extremes.
2021
The ways we produce food and use our natural resources can help deliver a climate-positive future in which people and nature can coexist and thrive. Central to this effort are priorities to protect nature, to sustainably manage existing food production and supply systems, and to restore and rehabilitate natural environments.
2021
Interventions along food supply chains are needed to increase the availability of safe and nutritious foods and lower their cost, primarily as a means to increase the affordability of healthy diets. This pathway calls for a coherent set of policies and investments from production to consumption aimed at realizing efficiency gains and cutting food losses and waste to help achieve these objectives.
2021
Incentives should, among others, stimulate diversification of production in the food and agriculture sectors towards nutritious foods, including fruits, vegetables, legumes and seeds, as well as animal source foods and biofortified crops, in addition to investments in innovation, research and extension to raise productivity.
2021
Developing co-responsible, circular food systems through reciprocity, solidarity and safety nets that influence corporate responsibility beyond the life of a given product. Circularity and co-responsibility within food systems can ensure that externalities are absorbed in the prices and ensure that the current waste generated by the food systems is moved away from inorganic waste residues towards organic ones and thus reincorporated into the system as an input.
2021
Indigenous Peoples´ food systems combine individual and collective rights to lands and resources. Similarly, mobile, semi-mobile and nomadic livelihoods are essential for maintaining both food generation and food production activities within these food systems.
2021
Innovative mechanisms to reduce climate-related risks, widespread adoption of climate-smart and environmentally sound production techniques, and the conservation and rehabilitation of natural environments will strengthen the resilience of food systems against increased climate variability and extremes.
2021
The ways we produce food and use our natural resources can help deliver a climate-positive future in which people and nature can coexist and thrive. Central to this effort are priorities to protect nature, to sustainably manage existing food production and supply systems, and to restore and rehabilitate natural environments.
2021
In addition to investments in innovation, research and extension to raise productivity, incentives should, among others, stimulate the diversification of production in the food and agriculture sectors towards nutritious foods, including fruits, vegetables, legumes and seeds, as well as animal source foods and biofortified crops.
2021
Need to promote increased resource use efficiency to reduce and/or substitute external inputs, recycling of water, nutrients, biomass and energy, diversification and integration of different farming sectors (various crops and/or animals) for high levels of biodiversity.
2021
Consider agroecological approaches in the design of projects aimed at promoting and strengthening diversified and integrated production and commercialization systems with Indigenous Peoples (learning from Indigenous knowledge on agroecological practices) and populations highly vulnerable to climate change and nutrition insecurity. The main objective would be to stabilize outputs and incomes and increase the production and availability of a diversity of foods accessible to low-income families.
2021
Increase efficiency of input use and reduce use of costly, scarce or environmentally damaging inputs, substitute conventional inputs and practices with agroecological alternatives, and focus on improving agroecosystems at the farm and landscape levels.
2021
Support nature-positive solutions by going beyond reducing damage to food ecosystems and, instead, making ecosystems thriving and resilient. This includes several sustainable approaches to agricultural production and human consumption of food: agroecology, regenerative agriculture, and organic farming, among other related approaches.
2021
Identification of productive-use locations that could jointly support energy, water, and food security can be used to attract investments that increase productivity and sustainability.
2022
Increasing consumer demand for sustainably produced foods, for example through certification programs, can create incentives for changing practices along entire value chains.
2022
Public support to agriculture, totaling an estimated $620 billion per year worldwide, should be repurposed toward R&D for green innovations and incentives to producers to adopt and invest in climate-smart technologies and practices. Such innovations should focus on increasing productivity, reducing emissions, and enhancing resilience in food production.
2022
Reorientation of consumer demand — through better information, food environments, and fiscal tools — will also create incentives for producers to adopt and invest in sustainable and climate-resilient practices.
2022
Cold chains provide benefits in terms of maintaining food quality (including nutritional quality) and safety, reducing food loss and waste, and facilitating market access, and they are also key to maintaining the integrity of veterinary medicines and vaccines to help prevent and manage outbreaks of zoonotic diseases.
2023
The development of cross-collaborative engagement among producers, processors, retailers and distributors will be critical in driving the shift from the current, linear “take–make–consume–dispose” model of the agrifood value chain, towards more circular systemic approaches to ensure sustainability.
2023
While urban and peri-urban agriculture can improve food security and nutrition in and around cities, it is unlikely that it can satisfy the needs of urban populations, so its development should be complementary to that of rural agriculture and concentrate on activities where there is a distinct comparative advantage, such as production of fresh, perishable foods.
2023
The safe use of wastewater can lead to important energy savings for food production, and for cities in general. Nutrients recovered from wastewater can be used instead of inorganic fertilizers.
2023
At the plot, farm and landscape levels, agroecological innovations can help increase farmers’ incomes, improve food security and nutrition, use water and soil more efficiently, conserve biodiversity, provide ecosystem services, and enhance nutrient recycling, among other benefits.
2023
Blending agroecology with territorial approaches can help empower rural communities and bring agroecology to scale, for example by implementing territorial certification schemes and shorter value chains to improve access to markets and increase incomes of small-scale producers.
2023
Organic farming systems can provide more profits with less environmental footprint and produce nutritious foods with less pesticide residue.
2023
Vertical farms can minimize risks of foodborne illnesses and considerably reduce the need for both inputs (e.g. fertilizers and pesticides) and water (through recycling).
2023
Governments should include the sustainability of food systems as a priority in order to effectively align relevant sectors around a common set of goals.
2021
Governments, intergovernmental organizations, private sector, civil society and other relevant stakeholders should promote sustainable agriculture such as agroecological and other innovative approaches, at different scales in the process towards achieving sustainable food systems that enhance food security and nutrition. They also should collaborate with and support farmers and other food producers to reduce the environmental impact of food systems, enhancing also biodiversity and recognizing the positive efforts of farmers that adopt sustainable practices.
2021
Governments should promote optimization of agricultural outputs per unit of water, soil, energy, labor and land, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity loss, and natural resource degradation (including deforestation), in accordance with their Nationally Determined Contribution to the Paris Agreement, and other relevant national planning instruments.
2021
Governments, farmers and their organizations, private sector and other relevant stakeholders should address soil health as central to agricultural production systems, with due attention to the FAO Voluntary Guidelines for Sustainable Soil Management.
2021
Governments should encourage the use of integrated soil fertility and nutrients management practices as well as ecosystem services productivity for sustainable production, and promote the use of sustainable land management services and agricultural practices to maintain soil biodiversity and nutrient balance, reduce soil erosion, improve water management, and promote carbon storage and sequestration.
2021
Governments should promote and improve the sustainable management and sustainable use of water resources for agriculture and food production through, where appropriate, improved regulation, integrated water resource management at watershed scale, inclusive and participatory approaches, and enhanced water cooperation approaches that involve civil society organizations, farmer organizations, peasants and other small-scale food producers, indigenous peoples and local communities, private sector, and other relevant stakeholders, that take into account the variety of water needs across different sectors.
2021
Governments should recognize the importance of pastoralists and sustainable rangelands management and grazing systems for nutrition, healthy ecosystems, rural livelihoods and resilient food supply chains as well as encourage low inputs pastoral systems to produce healthy animal source food that contribute to reducing poverty and hunger.
2021
Governments and private sector and other relevant stakeholders should encourage and promote responsible agricultural investment, and support food producers in the adoption of sustainable production practices and in the production of diverse food that contributes to healthy diets, while ensuring a decent income, livelihoods and resilience for fishers, farmers, particularly smallholders and/or family farms, and farm workers.
2021
Supporting and encouraging sustainable crop production practices, livestock, agroforestry, animal and fishery systems (including artisanal fisheries and aquaculture).
2021
Governments, private sector, donors and other relevant stakeholders should invest in research, knowledge transfer and innovation for producing diversified nutritious foods, such as fruits and vegetables, legumes and pulses, whole grains and roots and tubers, seeds and nuts, and animal source foods.
2021
Governments, private sector, and other stakeholders should, where appropriate, invest in infrastructure (e.g. storage facilities, transport infrastructure, physical markets and market information systems) and logistical support to prevent postharvest loss and waste and support the ability of food producers, including smallholders and micro, small and medium-size enterprises to deliver diverse, perishable and safe food to local, regional, international markets in sustainable ways.
2021
Governments, private sector, and farmers and other producers and their associations should promote minimizing food loss and waste on farms, during post-harvest storage, and throughout processing, transportation, and retail. This includes demand-driven training and capacity to improve management practices and foster the adoption of appropriate technologies.
2021
Governments, private sector and research centers should support research, monitoring, development and scaling up the use of innovative processing technologies and practices in accordance with the three dimensions of sustainable development that can retain the nutrient content of food, minimize post-harvest nutrient losses, create, where appropriate, new value added products from food processing by-products, and promote longer-term storage of food, particularly during periods of drought, flooding, and insufficient production.
2021
Governments, where appropriate, should encourage private sector food actors, including local private sector, to work towards more environmentally sustainable and safe packaging of products.
2021
Governments should improve the availability of and access to safe and nutritious food that contributes to healthy diets through sustainable food systems, and ensure that is has a positive impact on the progressive realization of the right to adequate food in the context of national food security, including through trade that should be in accordance with a universal, rules-based, open, non-discriminatory and equitable,multilateral trading system under the World Trade Organization.
2021
Instituting rural and urban planning policies, facilitating internet access and innovative service delivery, policies and instruments that encourage retail outlets and local, street and wet markets to sell a variety of safe, affordable nutritious foods that contribute to healthy diets through sustainable food systems, and that promote, as and when appropriate, local production, including home, community, and school food production and gardens, as well as national and international markets where appropriate.
2021
Governments, intergovernmental organizations, private sector and other relevant stakeholders should consider promoting home grown school meals, where food served in schools and other child care facilities is procured, where appropriate, from smallholder and/or family farmers to support local communities and provide educational opportunities for students.
2021
Governments should recognize the growing trend of food purchased online and consumed away from home (including street food) and could, as appropriate to national circumstances, promote policies to encourage restaurants and online outlets to offer prepared dishes made from nutritious, safe and sustainably produced foods that contribute to healthy diets, display information about food on menus (i.e.calories, product composition, and other nutritional content as well as other relevant science and evidence-based information such as related to sustainable production and consumption, based on, where appropriate, indicators of 2030 Agenda), avoid food loss and waste, and respect food safety regulations.
2021
Governments, intergovernmental organizations, civil society, private sector and other relevant stakeholders should support the education of all food system actors to prioritize the reduction of food loss and waste.
2021
Lay or strengthen, as appropriate, the policy foundations for agroecological and other innovative approaches to contribute to sustainable agriculture and food systems that enhance food security and nutrition.
2019
Promote science and evidence-based public mechanisms to assess the effects and impacts of agroecological and other innovative approaches on key aspects of sustainable agriculture and food systems related to food security and nutrition, resilience, food safety, producers’ revenues, the environment and public health, the progressive realization of the right to adequate food in the context of national food security, and the reduction of food losses and waste.
2019
Using science and evidence-based approaches, re-direct public policies, budgets and public and private investments, to agroecological and other innovative approaches, as well as sustainable practices and innovations, as appropriate, that reduce economic, environmental, and social negative impacts, including externalities, and lead to improved economic, social and environmental outcomes, while considering all externalities, trade-offs and synergies and contributing to the three dimensions of sustainable development and the achievement of the SDGs.
2019
Strengthen public policies to harness market mechanisms to enable sustainable agriculture and food systems by considering economic, environmental, and social, including public health, externalities, trade-offs and synergies.
2019
Encourage policies to promote sustainable production and consumption patterns that support, maintain, or enhance conservation and sustainable use of natural resources, and resource use efficiencies, including through supporting circular economies and other sustainable approaches and systems, while enhancing livelihoods and offering economic opportunities and growth, in collaboration with all relevant stakeholders.
2019
Promote the development of policies and the implementation of joint actions among all relevant stakeholders for the reduction of food losses and waste including, when promoting agroecological and other innovative approaches, in order to achieve sustainable development.
2019
Establish, improve and apply comprehensive performance measurement and monitoring frameworks to encourage the adoption of agroecological and other innovative approaches for sustainable agriculture and food systems that enhance food security and nutrition.
2019
Apply scientifically grounded and comprehensive performance metrics and indicators of agriculture and food systems based on SDG indicators and supplemented by complementary frameworks under development, as appropriate, including, but not limited to: the Tool for Agroecology Performance Evaluation (TAPE); the Sustainability Assessment of Food and Agriculture systems tool (SAFA) and the Self-evaluation and Holistic Assessment of climate Resilience of farmers and Pastoralists (SHARP) tool to track progress towards agroecological and other innovative approaches, and for related policy implementation and investment decisions.
2019
Undertake assessments that adequately consider the environmental impact of food systems, including food losses and waste, and continue to refine calculation methods that consider the environmental impacts of food systems.
2019
Foster the transition to resilient and diversified sustainable agriculture and food systems through agroecological and other innovative approaches.
2019
Raise awareness about the importance of diversified production systems that integrate livestock, aquaculture, cropping and agroforestry, as appropriate, to enhance resilient livelihoods and promote sustainable production for healthy diets.
2019
Strengthen public policies, responsible investment and research in support of agroecological and other innovative approaches.
2019
Promote healthy diets through sustainable food systems, including through the implementation of agroecological and other innovative approaches in order to improve food security and nutrition.
2019
Promote measures to improve animal welfare, in line with OIE standards, including through the implementation of agroecological and other innovative approaches.
2019
Promote, based on agroecological and other innovative approaches, alternatives to chemical pesticides and the greater integration of biodiversity for food and agriculture. Promote the removal of highly hazardous pesticides, in line with recommendation 7.5 of the WHO/FAO International Code of Conduct on Pesticide Management and depending on specific context and national capacities.
2019
Drawing on the International Code of Conduct for the Sustainable Use and Management of Fertilizers, the Voluntary Guidelines for Sustainable Soil Management, and consistent with national strategies and contexts, recognize the value of, and strengthen support for, agroecological and other innovative approaches that promote recycling, optimizing, or reducing, as appropriate, the reliance on external inputs, and facilitate the regeneration of soil health.
2019