Achieving an environmentally sustainable increase of production and access to affordable healthy diets is key
This should be done while protecting and enhancing the livelihoods of the world’s small-scale agricultural producers and other agrifood system actors. Yet agricultural production systems still lack integration, optimization, diversification, and innovation, while relying on the intensive use of chemical inputs and of natural resources. Global food supplies today rely on just a few crops and animal species, increasing the vulnerability to biotic stresses.
That’s why plant production and protection should focus on sustainable:
These sustainable production and protection technologies can greatly contribute to ensuring food security and nutrition, promoting food quality and safety, supporting farmers’ livelihoods, protecting the environment and biodiversity, and facilitating safe trade and economic growth.
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Events
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2024
High-level seminar on resilient drylands: Innovation for sustainable agricultural landscapes and livelihoods
Virtual Event, 25/09/2024
The webinar aims to explore innovative approaches to address the complexity and harness the potential of dryland agriculture to build local resilience and adaptive capacity, aligning with the FAO Strategic Framework 2022-31.
Goals
Developing sustainable crop production systems for a world free from hunger
Protecting the environment and biodiversity and facilitating safe trade and economic growth
Enabling more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable crop production and protection
Enhancing farmers' timely access to affordable quality and safe seeds and planting materials
Ensuring food security and nutrition through sustainable plant production and protection
Minimizing agricultural chemical inputs and mitigating climate change impact
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FAO's stories on Plant Production and Protection
Related topics
- FAO's Plant Production and Protection Division (NSP)
- Global Action on Pollination Services for Sustainable Agriculture
- One Country One Priority Product (OCOP)
- Sustainable Agricultural Mechanization
- Scaling up Climate Ambition on Land Use and Agriculture through Nationally Determined Contributions and National Adaptation Plans (SCALA)
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Global Conference on Sustainable Agricultural Mechanization
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Gender equality in plant production and protection
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Enhancing the use of quality seed for greater choice and benefit of smallholder farmers
13/12/2023
There are no good crops without good seeds. The desire of any farmer, irrespective of the size of their land, is to have access to quality seed and...
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