This paper is relevant to the impact areas in the following areas:
| Crops | Not Crop-Specific |
| Traits | Not Trait-Specific |
| Countries | Not country-specific |
| Regions | Not region-specific |
| Tags | fao, overview |
Agricultural biotechnologies provide opportunities to address the significant challenges of ensuring food security without destroying the environmental resource base. Because most of the world’s poor live in rural areas, there is a need to facilitate greater access, for poor rural producers, to technologies that can increase the productivity of smallholder agriculture and help reduce rural poverty. This document highlights lessons learned, and options for the future for developing countries in relation to harnessing agricultural biotechnologies for food security and agricultural sustainability. In addition, the document provides a series of Priorities for Action for consideration by the international community that focus on both policy and capacity development
Agricultural Biotechnologies for Food Security and Sustainable Development: Options for Developing Countries and Priorities for Action by the International Community (held on an external server, and so may require additional authentication details)
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