Law No. 3002 creating the Family, Agroecological and Organic Agriculture Production Centre in the Metropolitan Region of Macapá.

This Law creates the Family, Agroecological and Organic Agriculture Production Centre in the Metropolitan Region of Macapá. The Centre aims at promoting and encouraging the development of family farming, agroecology and organic production chains, as well as promoting and encouraging sustainable development in the region. Government actions related to this Centre will be carried out under the National Policy for Family Farming and Rural Enterprises, created by Federal Law No. 11.326 of 24 July 2006, the Federal Agriculture Law No. 10.831 of 23 December 2003 and the National Policy for Agroecology and Organic Production, established by Federal Decree No. 7.794 of 20 August 2012. Government actions will observe the following principles: sustainable, local and supportive development; participation, solidarity economy, associations, cooperatives and responsible consumption; environmental preservation with social inclusion; food security and sovereignty; agricultural, biological, territorial, landscape and cultural diversity; gender, ethnic and generation equity; family farming, agroecology and organic movements and traditional peoples for agrobiodiversity and food security, etc.