Applying technologies for improved food production

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.

1. Governments at the appropriate level and with the support of the relevant international and regional organizations should assist farming households and communities to apply technologies related to improved food production and security, including storage, monitoring of production and distribution.

1. Utilizing high productivity methods of agricultural management
2. Increasing global food production

1. Improving animal production
2. Employing modern techniques of food and live animal production
3. Developing agricultural biotechnology

1. Upgrading local food production
2. Providing food aid
3. Increasing food production to reduce rural poverty

1. Undertaking aquaculture research
2. Regionalizing animal production

1. Decreasing incentives for agricultural output

1. Underuse of high productivity methods of agricultural management

1. Unproductivity
2. Underproduction
3. Overproduction