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suggests long-term domestic strategies and policies that would enable poor farmers in developing countries to benefit from international trade, thereby contributing to rural poverty reduction and achievement of international development targets. 4. Sustainable Development - Priorities and Responsibilities 4.0 The existence (or absence) of favourable natural resources can facilitate (or retard) the process of economic development. Professor W.A.Lewis writes: "Natural resources determine the course of development and constitute the challenge which may not be accepted by the human mind". Developing countries, embarking on programmes of economic development, "usually have to begin with and concentrate on the development of locally available natural resources as an initial condition, for lifting local levels of living and purchasing power, for obtaining foreign exchange with which to purchase capital equipment, and for setting in motion the development process" (Fisher, 1964) 28 . The search for socially desirable, technologically appropriate, economically viable, and ecologically sound pattern of resource 28 Fisher,J.J (1964)::"The Role of Natural Resources in Economic Development: Principles and Pattern" in (Eds) H.F.Williamsons and J.A.Buttrick, 1964, pp 32 26
use and ways of life, to promote sustainable development, has been going on, ever since its most popular exposition in the well- known Brundtland Report entitled “Our Common Future” in 1987. 4.1 Sustainable Development is the management and conservation of the Natural Resources Base and the orientation of technological and institutional change in such a manner as to ensure the attainment and continued satisfaction of human needs for the present and future generations (see Figure-1 and Figure-2). The Agenda-21 of the Rio Earth Summit (1992), the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (CCD), the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its Kyoto Protocol, and the Habitat Agenda adopted by the UN Conference on Human Settlements in 1996, directly or indirectly, suggested integrated planning and management of Water, Land, Minerals, and Biota resources (that land comprises), for sustainable development and use. 4.2 According to Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO)’s definition, such sustainable development (in the agriculture, forestry and fisheries sectors) conserves Land, Water, Genetic 27
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use and ways of life, to promote sustainable development, has<br />
been going on, ever since its most popular exposition in the well-<br />
known Brundtland Report entitled “Our Common Future” in 1987.<br />
4.1 Sustainable Development is the management and<br />
conservation of the Natural <strong>Resources</strong> Base and the orientation<br />
of technological and institutional change in such a manner as to<br />
ensure the attainment and continued satisfaction of human needs<br />
for the present and future generations (see Figure-1 and<br />
Figure-2). The Agenda-21 of the Rio Earth Summit (1992), the<br />
UN Convention to Combat Desertification (CCD), the UN<br />
Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the UN Framework<br />
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its Kyoto Protocol,<br />
and the Habitat Agenda adopted by the UN Conference on<br />
Human Settlements in 1996, directly or indirectly, suggested<br />
integrated planning and management of Water, Land, Minerals,<br />
and Biota resources (that land comprises), for sustainable<br />
development and use.<br />
4.2 According to Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO)’s<br />
definition, such sustainable development (in the agriculture,<br />
forestry and fisheries sectors) conserves Land, Water, Genetic<br />
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