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Agriculture can and must contribute to achieving the
Millennium Development Goals on poverty, hunger, social equity and sustainable development. In the Asia-Pacific region, the daunting challenge for agriculture is to satisfy increasing and diversified demands for food and other products, thereby reducing the number of undernourished people while conserving natural resources, ensuring food quality and safe use of new technologies, and improving rural livelihoods.
The FAO regional office promotes policies and technologies linking production increases with sustainable practices and consumer concerns. Frameworks for 'good agricultural practices' are advanced that reduce environmental degradation; contribute to safety in the food chain; assist with reducing the effects of market failures on vulnerable, food-insecure households; and address the biosecurity risks of exchanges of agricultural inputs and products to facilitate international trade.
The Agricultural Group is composed of five subgroups:
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