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Agriculture, Biosecurity, Nutrition and Consumer Protection Department Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Good agricultural practices and SARD FAOs programmes for sustainable agriculture and rural development are responding to new challenges and targets... Farmers in Burkina Fasos Bobo Dioulasso region face problems common to rural communities across Africas Sudan-Sahel zone. Population growth and input-intensive farming practices have led to loss of biodiversity and soil fertility, and declining yields. Conflict between pastoralists and cultivators is increasing, and the regions main cash crop - cotton - is highly vulnerable to changes in world market prices. For most of Bobo Dioulassos farmers, the goal of sustainable agriculture and rural development (SARD) seems as far off as ever. Yet a small group of those farmers is making progress towards SARD. With assistance from an FAO project, they have adopted a range of integrated technologies, including mixed on Sustainable Development, held in legume-cereal cropping systems to conserve soil Johannesburg in 2002, reaffirmed Chapter 14 as fertility, cultivation of soybean to diversify a valid framework for SARD action, and renewed sources of income, and production of forage to international commitment to achieving its goals. feed livestock during the dry season. FAO As originally conceived, SARD had multiple brought national stakeholders together last year dimensions, including the sustainability of food to begin consolidating these findings into a set of chains and land and water resources, and the good agricultural practices (GAPs) and to idea of trade interacting with SARD processes to strengthen institutions to implement them. ensure adequate livelihoods and food security. For FAO, the development o