The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has launched Save and Grow, an initiative to produce more food for the global population in a sustainable manner. It hopes to help low-income farm families in developing countries to maximize their yields through improved production and healthy agro-systems. According to a FAO press release, the initiative will focus on:

• Precision farming in terms of irrigation, placement of fertilizers and integrated pest management
• Ecosystem approach that considers nature's contribution to crop growth and at the same time applies external inputs that crops need
• Shift from a homogeneous model of crop production to farming systems that are knowledge-intensive and adapted to specific locations; and
• Investment to support training of farmers on new practices
  

The FAO release is at http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/80096/icode/.