Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN +20) - Global ...

environmentally, economically and socially sustainable and implementable. This
paper provides a road map for this purpose.
II. Definitions
1. Agriculture : Agriculture is a profession based on crop and animal husbandry,
forestry and agro-forestry, capture and culture fisheries and agro-processing,
practiced either separately or in combination in the form of integrated farming
systems, such as crop-livestock, crop-fish, crop-livestock-fish, tree-species
and annual crops (agro-forestry) and a wide range of on-farm and off-farm
occupations. In most developing countries, agriculture is both a way of life
and the principal means to livelihood. Unlike in industrialised countries, it is
not just a commodity producing enterprise, but is the backbone of the
livelihood security system of a high proportion of the population in a majority
of developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Small scale family
farming is generally the rule in developing countries, while farming generally
takes the form of large agri-business enterprises in industrialised countries. In
developed nations, only 2 to 3 % of the population are classified as farmers, in
contrast to 50 to 70 % of the population in Sub-saharan Africa and South Asia.
2. Nutrition Security involves physical, economic and social access to balanced
diet (the needed macro and micro-nutrients), clean drinking water, sanitation,
primary healthcare and nutritional literacy.
3. Nutrition-sensitive Agriculture : Nutrition sensitive farming involves the
design and adoption of cropping and farming systems which can provide
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