INDIAN OCEAN TRAVEL by TOURISMER

RESPONSIBLE TOURISM: SUPPORT AGRICULTURE

Helping local and family farming

The objective of these initiatives is to support the adaptation of the production systems of small farmers to climate change in the countries and islands of the Indian Ocean, in order to improve the incomes and living conditions of family farming.

Awareness and training

Agroecology covers a diverse set of agricultural techniques and practices. According to all the versions, these methods have the effect of "preserving the soil in the long term and restoring a set of favorable physical, chemical and biological conditions to make it a real agricultural production tool, balanced and sustainable.

Knowledge and sharing of know-how

Agricultural innovations are more likely to solve local problems when they are co-developed through participatory processes:
Relying on producers' ancestral knowledge of agricultural biodiversity and their experience in managing it in specific contexts is essential.

Improving operational capabilities

Produce with sustainable techniques. Adapt production systems to the consequences of global warming at the regional level.
UNDP's analytical framework for capacity development for environmental sustainability takes into account three levels of capacity: the individual, the organization and the enabling environment, which encompasses the political, social, economic, legal and regulatory systems within from which organizations and individuals operate.