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Overview
Vision and Mission
Approaches and Strategies
Structure and Activities
Contact Information
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Approaches and Strategies
The Field Alliance will build on the approaches and strategies that have
been proven successful over the last decade in the context of regional IPM
activities. Thus Field
Alliance will provide an alternative to the agricultural and rural
development strategies of the last 50 years, some of which had little
sustainable impact or even had a damaging effect on rural society and
agro-ecosystems. Approaches that the Field Alliance will embrace include:
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Policies
that promote rural livelihoods while protecting farmer and consumer interests over those of
corporations.
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Inclusive
agricultural programs that ensure real participation for all,
including the poor, women and disadvantaged groups.
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Education
and health activities that are connected to and consistent with the
local social and environmental situation and that treat people as the
subject of development rather than as objects.
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Agricultural
research and learning for farmers that respects and builds upon farmer
experience and knowledge by including farmers as active partners in
the development of new approaches.
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Farming technologies that ensure the long-term
integrity and diversity of the natural resource base and do not
require high levels of external inputs particularly toxic chemicals. |
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