Food and Agricultural Organization of The United Nations GAP
The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) uses Good Agricultural Practices as a collection of principles to apply for on-farm production and post-production processes, resulting in safe and healthy food and non-food agricultural products, while taking into account economical, social and environmental sustainability.
GAPs may be applied to a wide range of farming systems and at different scales. They are applied through sustainable agricultural methods,
- Economically and efficiently produce sufficient (food security), safe (food safety) and nutritious food (food quality); Research that works for developing countries and Australia. http://www.aciar.gov.au/publication/publicationsbydownload. Retrieved 25 November 2007.
GAPs require maintaining a common database on integrated production techniques for each of the major agro-ecological area (see ecoregion), thus to collect, analyze and disseminate information of good practices in relevant geographical contexts.
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