How to make food and agriculture sustainable

We must increase investments in rural areas in diverse and locally specific agro-ecosystems based on ecological interaction between soils, water, plants, animals and trees, and move farmers from grain mono-cultures to poly-cropping, horticulture or animal husbandry. Shyam Khadka, FAO representative in India and Anne-Sophie Poisot, Advisor, Sustainable Agriculture, FAO write.