This notebook describes the situation of agriculture in an economic globalization context and provides elements of proposals for an agriculture and a sustainable development.
In spite of the commitments took in Rio in 1992, the challenges linked to the environment and the development (pressure on the natural resources, reduction of poverty and reorientation of the forms of production and consumption), in the agricultural sector and for the rural populations, remain whole.
This document raises a finding of the situation of the sustainable agriculture in the countries of the North and the South while replacing the discussion in the present context of the economic globalization.
In view of the next Summit of the Land in 2002, it provides elements of proposals for an agriculture and a sustainable development from the market, the agricultural policies and the social dialogue.
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