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Current estimates put the number of starving people at 800 million. Experiences from around the world confirm that sustainable agriculture can make a significant contribution to fighting starvation worldwide. For peasants in Southern countries, in particular, it offers a realistic way to increase their income. Despite its major potential, in many cases even successful sustainable agricutlure models have not been able to gain a strong foothold.

The German Council for Sustainable Development has put the problem on its agenda and as part of the Programme of Action 2015 of the Federal Government and has launched the cooperative project Sustainet - Sustainable Agriculture Information Network . It is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the aid organisations Brot für die Welt, German Agro Action, Misereor as well as the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit. They have joined forces with other partners to analyse the problem of often insufficient dissemination of promising approaches, and then to take action to find solutions.









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