Law No. 5.801 creating the State Policy for Agroecology and Organic Production - PDAPO. País/Territorio Brasil Subdivisión territorial Distrito Federal Tipo de documento Legislación Fecha 2017 Fuente FAO, FAOLEX Materia Agricultura y desarrollo rural, Alimentación y nutrición Palabra clave Desarrollo agrícola Explotación agrícola Política/planificación Producción ecológica/producción orgánica Pueblos indígenas Agricultura familiar Agroecología Legislación básica Agricultura urbana y periurbana Seguridad alimentaria Soberanía alimentaria Área geográphica Amazona, Americas, América Latina y el Caribe, Atlántico Norte, América del Sur, Atlántico Sur Entry into force notes This Law enters into force on the day of its publication. Resumen This Law, consisting of 23 articles divided into eight Chapters, creates the State Policy for Agro-ecology and Organic Production - PDAPO. The Policy aims at: integrating, articulating and adapting plans, programmes and actions that induce organic and agro-ecological basis. The objectives of the PDAPO are: promoting the acquisition of products from family farming by public agencies; encouraging the consumption of healthy, sustainable and value-added local and regional food crops; strengthening the production, processing and consumption of organic and agro-ecological transition products, with emphasis on local and regional markets; promoting and consolidating access, use and conservation of natural assets by farmers; creating and implementing regulatory, fiscal, credit, incentive and payment instruments for environmental services to protect and valorize traditional practices for the use and conservation of agro-biodiversity and for the expansion of organic and agro-ecological transition; increasing the capacity of generation and socialization of knowledge in organic production and agro-ecological transition through the enhancement of local knowledge and agro-ecological approach in educational and research institutions; Strengthen state-based and non-state participatory research programs on the field, based on agro-ecology, etc. The PDAPO aims to promote the sovereignty and food and nutritional security as well as the human right to adequate and healthy food. The Policy is divided as follows: General provisions (Chap. I); Concepts (Chap. II); Guidelines (Chap. III); Objectives (Chap. IV); PDAPO Instruments (Chap. V); Chamber of Agriculture and Organic Production of the Federal District - CAO-DF (Chap. VI); Financing sources (Chap. VII); Final provisions (Chap. VIII). Texto completo Portugués Página web www.normasbrasil.com.br