Principles for sustainable agriculture

Brazilian agriculture faces major challenges associated with climate change.  Actions have been implemented to reduce vulnerability and increase the resilience of production systems, ensuring the maintenance of food security and the sustainability of agrifood systems.

Embrapa is committed to creating solutions that ensure the production of food and bioproducts even in the face of the adversities imposed by the climate. To that end, it is attentive to the principles that must be present in the global effort to transform agri-food systems, with sustainable agriculture as the core and food security as the ultimate goal. 

Seven principles should inform the transformation of agri-food systems towards sustainable agriculture and food security. This set of principles is organized to form the acronym RESPECT (Resilience; Efficiency; Science; People; Energy; Change; Trade), which entail respect for nature, people and the global economy.

 

Resilience
 

Strengthening the resilience of agri-food systems to support international, national and local food and nutritional security policies to ensure adequate and healthy food for all.

Efficiency
 

Support to the development of efficient and locally adapted food systems, namely by reducing not only food loss and waste in agri-food systems, but also subsidies that are detrimental to efficiency and competitiveness.

Science
 

Continuous and inclusive scientific research and innovation for the development and implementation of resilient and sustainable agri-food systems and the promotion of adequate and healthy food.

People
 

Support to farmers in promoting sustainable practices, with a special focus on the most vulnerable, such as smallholders, family farmers and traditional communities, promoting sustainable livelihoods and diversification of food production.

Energy
 

Boost for the generation and use of renewable energy in agri-food systems, including sustainable biofuels.

Change
 

Commitment to reducing emissions caused by land use change, including ending deforestation associated with agriculture or agrifood systems, recovering degraded land, and promoting the use of integrated systems, agroforestry systems, and agrobiodiversity in food systems.

Trade
 

Trade agricultural and food products with a cooperative approach, through sharing best practices, technology and the appropriate allocation of funding, while ending distortive subsidies, avoiding unilateral trade measures with negative impacts on food and nutritional security, and creating positive incentives for sustainable fair trade

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