A means of organizing agricultural, forestry, fisheries, pastoral, and aquaculture production which is managed and operated by a family and predominantly reliant on family capital and labor, including both women’s and men’s. The family and the farm are linked, co-evolve, and combine economic, environmental, social, and cultural functions. (FAOLEX. 2025. Glossary https://www.fao.org/faolex/)
A good practice is not only a practice that is good, but a practice that has been proven to work well and produce good results, and is therefore recommended as a model. It is a successful experience, which has been tested and validated, in the broad sense, which has been repeated and deserves to be shared so that a greater number of people can adopt it. (http://www.fao.org/docrep/017/ap784e/ap784e.pdf)
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Continuous improvement and iteration are implicit to the concept of “good practice’’. Some people prefer to use the term “good practice” instead of “best practice”, as it is debatable whether there is a single ‘best’ approach knowing that approaches are constantly evolving and being updated.
