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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 4736 - 4740 of 5073Assessing soil degradation. Report of an FAO/UNEP Expert Consultation, Rome, 18-20 January 1977
There is a urgent need for a better understanding of the risks of soil degradation and their geographical distribution as well as a better knowledge of where degradation occurs at present. it would be desirable to combine soil conservation activities with other elements for increasing crop production.Erosion, salinity and alkalinity and the loss of soil fertility seriously reduce the natural potential of soils to produce food fibres. During the meeting, many criteria to assess the various types of soil degradation were outlined by the experts.
Projet de developpement des peches continentales et de l'aquaculture, (Madagascar). Programme pour le recueil des donnees statistiques de base sur les peches continentales. (Production et commercialisation) - Document technique 1
Dans sa premire partie, cette tude tente de faire le point de la situation de l'effort de pche actuel exerc dans les principaux plans d'caux du Pays. Les seuls paramtres disponibles pour cette valuation datent de 10 20 ans, aucune donne plus rcente n'ayant t recueillie. Cette lacune est due en grande partie la faiblesse de la structure de la Division Pche et Pisciculture de la Direction des Eaux et Forts, reste jusqu'alors au stade embryonnaire, ainsi qu'au manque de budget.
Contradictions in tropical forestry
An international journal of forestry and forest industries
Expropriation Act
To provide for the expropriation of land and other property for public and certain other purposes; and to provide for matters connected therewith.
The Soil, how to conserve the soil
This manual is a translation and adaptation 11Le sol - comment conserver le sol? ", published by the ri-Service- Afrique of the lnstitut africain pour le developpement economique et social (INADES).
The course covers erosion, soil conservation and farming techniques that protect soil resources.