This Decree, consisting of 21 articles, regulates the State Policy on Agroecology and Organic Production and creates the State Programme of Agroecology (PABE) and the Management Committee of the State Policy for Agroecology and Organic Production and the PABE. The State Policy is integrated and articulated to specific Laws, Policies, Programmes and Government Funds. The Policy is addressed to family farmers as in art. 3 of Federal Law No. 11.326 of 2006. This State Policy aims to: support and promote agro-ecological and organic production systems; ensure sustainable food and nutritional sovereignty and security by supporting and encouraging the establishment and strengthening of diversified production systems and agrobiodiversity; stimulate the diversification of agricultural, land and production; promote the use of natural resources with ecologically sustainable management, and agro-forestry activities; stimulate the consumption of agroecological and organic food by promoting, disseminating and investing in food products of a better biological quality without pesticides; strengthen the social participation of men, women, young people and the elderly in sustainable rural development and knowledge of agroecosystem management; foster the adoption of practices for ecologically based production in family farming as a healthy way of life, in search of equity, security and food and nutritional sovereignty, income generation and social inclusion; promote agroecology and organic production; support the expansion of knowledge generation, through scientific research, etc.
Brasil · 2014-07-04