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RATIONALE OF AQUAGRIS PROJECT
The safety of what is served up to us on our dinner plate is no longer something we can take for granted. In the past not much thought was given to how food was grown and processed. Consideration for how plants, animals, soil and water were treated by conventional farming systems was not in our minds. Extensive use of pesticides, fertilizers and significant energy inputs to maximize production brought with them considerable waste release and a variety of related environmental problems. The twenty-six participants from fifteen different countries united their efforts, in the context of the AquAgriS Coordination Action, in order to reform environmental management for improved sustainability in the farming, fisheries and aquaculture (FFA) industries.
OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITES
The AquAgriS network aims to increase the understanding and the awareness of problem areas that are faced by today’s FFA industries and develop solutions that have minimal impact on biodiversity and the environment. To get these targets AquAgriS activities includes:
Review of the latest international scientific literature to elucidate the optimum standards in sustainable farming.
Mapping of the current situation concerning the status of national and international standards, codes of practice, policies and regulation.
Identification of the main barriers that prevent the development, implementation and use of measures to decrease the impact of the FFA industries.
THE SOCIAL IMPACT
The AquAgriS action will promote the awareness and the understanding of the big, long-term environmental and health damages caused by unsustainable farming, fisheries and aquaculture, fostering an open dialogue among researchers and producers to encourage the formation of a coherent strategy for future strategies for the management of sustainable food production models |
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