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Book (stand-alone)Towards a food-secure Asia and Pacific. Regional Strategic Framework for Asia and the Pacific, second edition 2004
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No results found.The product of a year-long effort, this document reiterates FAO’s global vision and mission in sustainable agriculture and food security, and articulates the elements of strategy that FAO and its member countries in Asia and the Pacific might adopt to realize them. Six thematic programme areas are identified to guide the Asia-Pacific region in national and collective actions towards achieving the World Food Summit target of halving the number of undernourished by 2015. These are: restructuring o f the agricultural sector; decentralizing governance in support of sustainable development; reducing vulnerability to disasters; promoting effective and equitable management, conservation and sustainable use of natural resources; strengthening biosecurity; and alleviating poverty in rice-based livelihood systems. Within each thematic area, the general rationale, goal, objectives, strategic elements, outcomes and impact indicators are given and an implementation strategy is outlined. -
Book (stand-alone)Science and technology for sustainable food security, nutritional adequacy, and poverty alleviation in the Asia-Pacific Region 2002
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No results found.Science and technology have played a vital role in keeping agricultural production a step ahead of rapid global population growth during the past four decades. However, Green Revolution technologies did not benefit the vast rainfed and other marginal areas with high concentrations of hunger and poverty. The new farming technologies were also not friendly to the environment, often resulting in degradation of land, water and biodiversity. The region needs to step up agricultural production by 80 p ercent by the year 2030 to meet its growing food needs. However, because there is very little room for expanding the area under farm cultivation most of this increase will need to come from making existing farmland more productive. This publication examines the agrobiophysical, socio-economic and environmental status of farming systems in Asia-Pacific and the role that science and technology will be called on to play in “breaking the unholy alliance of hunger, poverty and environmental degradati on”. -
Book (stand-alone)Beyond timber: social, economic and cultural dimensions of non-wood forest products in Asia and the Pacific 1995
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