Five Key Principles of Sustainability for Food and Agriculture

To promote agricultural sustainability the FAO have identified five key principles to achieve this:
1. Improving efficiency in the use of resources.
2. Direct action is required to conserve, protect and enhance natural resources.
3. Failing to protect and improve rural livelihoods, equity and social well-being is unsustainable.
4. Enhanced resilience of people, communities and ecosystems.
5. Responsible and effective governance mechanisms.
(Source: Building a common vision for sustainable food and agriculture: Principles and approaches, FAO, 2014, https://www.fao.org/3/a-i3940e.pdf, accessed 7th March 2023)

These principles can be readily adapted, and extended, for inclusion within a sustainability framework for a turf management situation.