الغرض من الخطوط التوجيهية الطوعية هو إعطاء توجيهات عملية للدول بغية تطبيق الإعمال المطرد للحق في غذاء كافٍ في سياق الأمن الغذائي القطري، وذلك بهدف تحقيق أهداف خطة عمل مؤتمر القمة العالمي للأغذية. وهي تعطي أداة إضافية لمكافحة الجوع والفقر وللإسراع في بلوغ الأهداف الإنمائي

FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Technical Paper 582. This study reports on the experiences with a diversity of cases of rights-based benthic and finfish fisheries management regimes from the Latin American region.

This draft report prepared by an FAO - Investment Centre team upon request of the World Bank, is based on an extensive review of available information including technical papers and policy statements on OECS agriculture and on findings of short visits to the OECS countries to review development projects in the rural areas initiated by private investors, which could be of interest to the design of future agricultural sector development strategies.

This thematic issue of the Land Tenure Journal brings together theories and practices related to land tenure and climate change both from the mitigation and adaptation perspectives. Articles look at the implications that REDD+ and Payments for Environmental Services pose to land tenure and administration, propose approaches to deal with the new challenges and analyse the adaptation of local tenure systems and livelihoods to climate change.

In preparing an investment project, development strategies and project components are defined and revisited during project formulation through a consultative process that often includes Socio-economic and Production Systems Studies. These studies are conducted to develop an appreciation of the situation in which the intended beneficiaries live, and their perceptions of their problems, needs and priorities.

Two important resolutions for women were adopted by the United Nations last year. One was the UNHABITAT Resolution on “Women's Role and Rights in Human Settlements Development and Slum Upgrading” and the other was the Commission on Human Rights Resolution on “Women's Equal Ownership, Access to, and Control over Land and the Equal Rights to Own Property and to Adequate Housing”. These resolutions recognised the violation of women's property rights as a violation of fundamental human rights and the UN's commitment to stop such violations.

Document de travail sur les régimes fonciers 2. Ce document propose une analyse des impacts du changement climatique sur les régimes et les politiques fonciers. Il évalue les effets des changements climatique anthropogéniques en cours sur les régimes fonciers – s’agissant notamment de ceux qui sont liés aux émissions de gaz à effet de serre – et il précise le rôle que les politiques foncières pourraient jouer en matière d’adaptation et de planification au changement climatique dans le monde en développement.

Ce livre raconte l'histoire de ces sept décennies de l'histoire de la FAO, de ses protagonistes et de leurs efforts. Nous avons creusé dans les archives de la FAO afin de mettre en lumière des images en noir et blanc inédites, elles forment un portefeuille d'images évocatrices des premières années de l'Organisation.