Sustainable Agriculture: A tool to strengthen Food Security and Nutrition in Latin America and the Caribbean
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FAO seeks to promote practices and policies that support integration of the agriculture and productive sectors (crops, livestock, forestry and fisheries) to ensure the responsible management and long term availability of natural resources. For this, it focuses its efforts on improving and standardizing productive activities, as it acknowledges the need to produce safe foods and implement good agricultural practices, such as the integrated pest and disease management, harvest and postharvest han dling, technological innovation and the conservation of biodiversity. On including social aspects, such as food security, dignified work, food education and the strengthening of associations. Environmental aspects, such as water and soil management, the sustainability of the productive system, the handling of agrochemicals, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and risk analysis. And economic aspects, such as entrepreneurial management, competitiveness and fair trade. FAO inicitives at a r egional level, in a constant search for such productive sustainability, are developed under an eco-systemic approach to achieve an efficient production, an egalitarian, participative society with oportunities for its economic, physical and mental growth in a healthy environment.