Good agricultural practices-使用良好的农业措施.pdf

Agriculture, Biosecurity, Nutrition
and Consumer Protection Department
Food and anization
of the United Nations
Good agricultural practices and SARD

FAO's programmes for sustainable agriculture and rural development are
responding to new challenges and targets...
Farmers in Burkina Faso's Bobo Dioulasso
region face mon to rural
communities across Africa's Sudan-Sahel zone.
Population growth and input-intensive farming
practices have led to loss of biodiversity and soil
fertility, and declining yields. Conflict between
pastoralists and cultivators is increasing, and the
region's main cash crop - cotton - is highly
vulnerable to changes in world market prices.
For most of Bobo Dioulasso's farmers, the goal of
sustainable agriculture and rural development
(SARD) seems as far off as ever.
Yet a small group of those farmers is making
progress towards SARD. With assistance from an
FAO project, they have adopted a range of

integrated technologies, including mixed on Sustainable Development, held in
legume-cereal cropping systems to conserve soil Johannesburg in 2002, reaffirmed Chapter 14 as
fertility, cultivation of soybean to diversify a valid framework for SARD action, and renewed
sources of e, and production of forage to mitment to achieving its goals.
feed livestock during the dry season. FAO As originally conceived, S