Creating a sustainable agricultural farming systems network

(h) Supporting sustainable agriculture and combating desertification

Seventh, the transition to sustainable agriculture must be completed.

The Forum focused on the promotion of sustainable agricultural farming systems in the context of UNCCD implementation.

When we eat our meals, we are unaware of the deforestation that has resulted from unsustainable farming.

Indeed, the CAP is ensuring neither sustainable agriculture nor decent incomes for all farmers.

By the early 1980s, the concept had broadened from agricultural systems design towards sustainable human habitats.

Besides, adoption of sustainable agriculture practices helps reduce food miles.

The main factors impeding the sustainable development of water resources are chronic scarcity, deteriorating quality and unsustainable water utilization, especially in agriculture.

10. Notes that sustainable agriculture in mountain regions is important for the protection of the mountain environment and the promotion of the regional economy

4. Notes with satisfaction the contribution made by the Technology for Agriculture initiative of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Investment in agricultural and rural development is therefore vital to food security and sustainable economic development.

Promoting measures for revitalizing drylands agricultural sectors based on good local governance for sustainable agricultural farming systems.

For the biennium 2008 2009, it was decided that CSD sessions should focus on agriculture, rural development, land, drought and desertification.

The New Partnership for Africa's Development, through its Comprehensive African Agricultural Development Programme and its science and technology platform for agriculture, offers broad policies.

For example, those engaged in commercial agriculture can choose to extend business partnerships with companies committed to sustainable operations.

The Growing Sustainable Business (GSB) initiative for poverty reduction, adopted by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) aims to facilitate and increase investment and business activities that have a positive impact on sustainable development and the Millennium Development Goals.

In the early 1990s at Ain Shams University, a group of agriculture professors developed an initiative of growing organic vegetables to suit densely populated cities of Egypt.

A focus on sustainable rice cultivation was becoming increasingly important in view of the growth in global population and the corresponding escalation in the demand for rice.

The conference allowed scientists and agricultural specialists to share their thoughts with policymakers on the sustainable way forward for rice production

A recent initiative was proposed under the Global Compact umbrella in Johannesburg entitled Growing Sustainable Business in the Least Developed Countries .

Permaculturists argue that, where vastly differing systems meet, there is an intense area of productivity and useful connections.

Developing countries, which are often endowed with rich biodiversity, face the great challenge of combining poverty alleviation and economic growth with sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity.

In particular, all financial transactions related to upstream activities in the value chain should be disclosed, including those carried out by state owned companies and sovereign wealth funds. Downstream, the international markets for recycling and disposal should be included.

Finally, instead of relying on the UN as a negotiating forum, countries should cluster around specific initiatives, from renewable power to sustainable agriculture.

International policy Sustainable agriculture has become a topic of interest in the international policy arena, especially with regards to its potential to reduce the risks associated with a changing climate and growing human population.

During the World Food Summit (WFS), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) put emphasis on food security and therefore sustainable agriculture and rural development (SARD).

California In response to the recession of 2008, a coalition of community based organizations, farmers, and academic institutions in California's Pomona Valley formed the Pomona Valley Urban Agriculture Initiative.

A significant initiative. Our trade union sustainable development country profiles (see section D below) provide the means to track the performance of Governments on a wide range of indicators.

The elimination of economic and social threats to durable peace and sustainable development in Africa is at the very heart of the NEPAD initiative.

The Agricultural Ontology Service (AOS) shall serve as a reference initiative that structures and standardises agricultural terminology in multiple languages for use of any number of systems in the agricultural domain and provide several services.

IFAD promotes the World Bank initiative TerrAfrica to set up a framework to implement sustainable development in sub Saharan Africa.

Noting the preparatory work being carried out by the Commission on Sustainable Development for its next two year cycle, with the thematic focus on agriculture, rural development, land, drought, desertification and Africa,

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MADER), in its Agrarian Policy and Strategies, defined as its main objective to guarantee food security, sustainable development, reduction of unemployment and that of the levels of absolute poverty.

Here permaculture principles would be applied in terms of aiming to reduce energy and water needs, harnessing natural resources such as sunlight, and generally creating a harmonious, sustainable environment in which to live and work.

An international initiative. Founded in 2004, the International Labour Foundation for Sustainable Development (Sustainlabour), is the first international organization of its kind to promote sustainable development objectives specifically from a trade union perspective, placing a priority on work, workplaces and community action.

This, compounded by the establishment, without any prior education or training, of a multiparty system which gave rise to at least 46 political parties, appears to hinder any initiative aimed at achieving sustainable development.

In the context of the GSB initiative, UNDP plays the role of broker by linking private sector abilities and local development priorities through the development of new, cutting edge business models.

In 2012, the UMass Permaculture Initiative won the White House Champions of Change sustainability contest, which declared that they demonstrate how permaculture can feed a growing population in an environmentally sustainable and socially responsible manner .

The Convention Plus initiative was already a success in progress, and the Framework for Durable Solutions held great promise even for protracted refugee situations.

Underlining the importance of the issue of desertification in the process of the Commission on Sustainable Development, in particular in the context of its sixteenth and seventeenth sessions dealing with thematic clusters on agriculture, rural development, land, drought and desertification,

The launch meeting considered priorities for sustainable agriculture, the work plan 2004 2007, mechanisms for identification, selection and funding of relevant regional pilot projects, and communication and exchange mechanisms for information dissemination among stakeholders.

With an agriculture based economy, in which the growth rate of GDP was lower than that of the population, the Government needed to lay the foundations of sustainable economic development in order to reinforce political stability.

These revealed considerable interest in these countries in taking advantage of export opportunities, but equally important in using OA as a tool to contribute to sustainable rural development, food security and poverty reduction.

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