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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO acts as a neutral forum where all nations meet as equals to negotiate agreements and debate policy. FAO is also a source of knowledge and information. We help developing countries and countries in transition modernize and improve agriculture, forestry and fisheries practices and ensure good nutrition for all. Since our founding in 1945, we have focused special attention on developing rural areas, home to 70 percent of the world's poor and hungry people.
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Displaying 4641 - 4645 of 5073FAO Essays in memory of Jean Carroz. The Law and the Sea
Urban forestry: cities, trees and people
Given the monumental challenges facing today's world - widespread poverty, urban blight, illiteracy, tropical deforestation and the threat of nuclear war, to name only a few - it may seem quite irrelevant to devote an issue of Unasylva to the rather tame-sounding subject of urban forestry. To millions of homeless or starving or unemployed people in the urban centres of the developing world, how important can urban forestry really be? In truth, urban forestry, as sometimes practiced, does tend to benefit the well-to-do at the expense of the underprivileged.
Reduction of food losses through insect pest management and use of small scale and low cost farm equipment : progress report for the period from 1st January to 30th june 1987
The document focuses on the growing demand for regional facilities for demographic research and training in Africa, the United Nations Economic commission for Africa approved, at its Ninth Session in 1968, the establishment of two new institutes, which would provide training and conduct research in the region. One of these was to serve the English-speaking Countries of Africa, taking into consideration the coverage of the Cairo Demographic Centre, and the need to avoid the duplication or facilities, while the other was to serve the French-speaking countries or Africa, south of Sahara.
Food and agriculture in Africa : ECA/FAO Agriculture Division
This paper examines the role of the International Financial institutions in the formulation of African macro-economic policies with particular reference to efforts aimed at adjusting the agricultural sectors of African economies. The paper attempts to
assess the impact of Structural Adjustment Programs(SAP)on African agriculture and through an examination of the application of the programs in three African countries - Malawi,Tanzania and Zambia.
La financiación internacional de la silvicultura
El presente nmero de Unasylva refleja en cierto modo el Plan de accin forestal en los trpicos, ya que sus principales artculos se refieren a las inversiones internacionales en el sector forestal (S.E. McGaughey), y a cuestiones relacionadas con tres importantes programas del Plan: lea y energa (G. Foley); ordenacin de cuencas hidrogrficas, que es una seccin del programa sobre la funcin de la silvicultura en el aprovechamiento de la tierra (U. Chanphaka); e industrias forestales (T.M. Maloney).