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CHAPTER three: UNDERSTANDINGS AND LEGAL FRAMEWORK
Planning materializes in an array of goals and strategic guidelines as shown below:
Table 11. National Plan for Good Living policies and strategic guidelines directly related
with Agroecology
2.11. Guarantee rural Good Living and overcome social and territorial inequalities, with harmony between
rural and urban settings.
g. Improve levels of small family farming productivity and also agro-production systems respecting Nature
and cultural relevance.
l. Expand and sustain the supply of agroecological and artisanal products and services from the grassroots,
solidary economy and from rural MSMEs, strengthening direct marketing mechanisms with local, urban and
external markets, particularly commercial networks.
m. Improving management of the country’s rural territories to ensure national food sovereignty, favoring organic
and sustainable traditional practices at the different scales of agricultural production, from small family
farming up to large monocrops, in the framework of the agrarian revolution.
2.4. Democratize the means of production, generating equitable conditions and opportunities to foster territorial
cohesion.
i. Generate incentives and develop affirmative action for access to and generation of support infrastructure for
production and marketing, science and technology, information, ancestral knowledge, technical and financial
training for individuals, communities, peoples and nationalities that have historically been socially, economically
and territorially excluded.
3.6. Promote nutritious, healthful eating habits among the population and in society to enable a level of
physical, emotional and intellectual development according to age and physical conditions.
n. Coordinate local/national production, distribution and consumption to meet the people’s nutritional needs,
in order to guarantee availability and ongoing access to nutritious, healthful, safe foods, with social, cultural
and geographical relevance, contributing to the guarantee of food sustainability and sovereignty.
o. Encourage production and consumption of traditional crops as an alternative for a healthful diet.
Source: PNBV 2913 - 2017
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