Organic agriculture and food security
Organic agriculture offers insights towards a paradigm shift in food security which this paper reviews, with a view to:
- Identify strengths and weaknesses of organic agriculture related to the food security dimensions of availability, access, stability and utilization;
- assess potential impacts of organic agriculture on sustainable food security, including hunger, poverty, the environment and food provisioning;
- highlight attributes of organic supply chains within the enabling framework of the Human Right to Adequate Food; and
- propose policy and research actions for improving the performance of organic food systems at national, international and FAO levels.
السنة: 2007
النص الكامل متاح على: http://www.fao.org/tempref/docrep/fao/meeting/012/ah952e.pdf
لغة المحتوى: English
Author: Nadia El-Hage Scialabba (FAO)
, FAO Inter-departmental working group on Organic Agriculture
النوع: تقرير المؤتمر