C: Food and Other Products
Creating sustainable increases in the supply and availability of food and other products from the crop, livestock, fisheries
and forestry sectors
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Meeting the needs of growing and increasingly urbanized populations will require for the foreseeable future both substantial
increases and qualitative adaptations in domestic supply and availability of agricultural products. A core requirement, especially
in developing countries, is to raise productivity in the crop, livestock, fisheries and forestry sectors, where the adoption
of improved technology can bring about rapid and major increases in production and producers' incomes. In addition, the economic
and institutional operating conditions of all agriculture-based activities, including processing and marketing systems, need
to be improved so as to enhance the overall efficiency and adaptability of those activities. The primary thrusts of this corporate
strategy are on: improving the policy environment and institutional frameworks and addressing systems management constraints,
taking into account changes in the role of the state and the importance of private initiative; and supporting the transfer
and use of appropriate technology aimed at the sustainable intensification of production systems. In order to provide countries
with appropriate policy options and enhance their ability to choose among them and to implement them, FAO will develop and
disseminate normative instruments (guidelines, compendia of "best practices", etc.), deliver policy and technical advice and
assistance, and promote capacity building. It will act as a synthesizer and disseminator of information on technology, approaches
and decision support tools, as well as a proponent of particularly successful solutions.
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