Managing agricultural lands

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. Agenda 21 recommends land-resource planning, information and education for agriculture to ensure sustainable agriculture and rural development.

1. Managing local agricultural resources
2. Managing land use
3. Managing land

1. Using agroecology
2. Protecting best farmland for agriculture
3. Practising rainwater-harvesting agriculture
4. Improving ability to use land for agricultural purposes
5. Farming
6. Fallowing land
7. Ensuring sustainable agricultural development
8. Addressing problems of cultivation of marginal agricultural land

1. Monitoring food security
2. Increasing sustainable food production
3. Developing agricultural resources

1. Strengthening local organizations responsible for land management
2. Monitoring farming production
3. Introducing erosion prevention technologies
4. Integrating use of land resources
5. Improving data systems on land resources
6. Forming business management group
7. Ensuring public participation for sustainable agriculture
8. Developing sustainable land use policy
9. Conducting agricultural research

1. Damaging agricultural land

1. Damaging agricultural land

1. Mismanagement of environmental demand
2. Agricultural mismanagement

1. Unused
2. Underuse
3. Land
4. Abuse

1. Agenda 21