Agriculture and Natural Resource Management
Agricultural development and natural resource management are vitally important to establishing food security. Under Food for Peace, programs focusing on agriculture and natural resource management have several objectives that are carried out by cooperating sponsors, including reducing risks during the agricultural production cycle, increasing agricultural productivity and promoting natural resource management in a socially, economically and environmentally sustainable manner. Also, Food for Peace encourages activities related to the production, processing, marketing, distribution, use and trade of food, feed and fiber produced by a sustainable agriculture system in a manner that is non-degrading to the environment, technically appropriate, economically viable, market-driven, locally replicable, equitable and socially acceptable. Activities promote agriculture technologies that offset losses of and/or regenerate soil fertility; prevent erosion of topsoil; protect water point quality and quantity; employ judicious use of affordable purchased supplies; reduce post-harvest storage losses; diversify and/or integrate crops, livestock, agro-forestry and fisheries production systems to enhance resilience to climatic fluctuations; and rely on market-driven demand to maximize return and predictability of income generation.
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