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Ressources forestières naturelles et plantations au Mali

Journal Articles & Books
November, 1999
Mali
Africa

A medium-size report that deals with the overall situation of data on forest resources and plantations in Mali. The report is divided into five main sections that describe the information used (section 1), followed by a number of tables describing different aspects of the country's resources (surface, volume, state of plantations, etc.). The last part of the report gives details about natural forests, plantations as well as how forest resources have evolved through time.

Assessing the Adoptability of Improved Crop Production Technologies by Small Farmers: the Case of Lesotho

Reports & Research
November, 1996
Lesotho
Italy
Africa

In Lesotho, some externally financed agricultural development projects have appeared particularly prone to failure. One reason may be that, when designed, projects have not been subjected to sufficiently rigorous analysis, particularly with regard to expected farmers' response to extension messages.

World Agriculture: Towards 2015/2030. An FAO perspective

Journal Articles & Books
November, 2003
Egypt
Bangladesh
Nigeria
Gambia
Mali
Burkina Faso
China
Indonesia
Canada
Iran
Benin
Pakistan
Uruguay
Thailand
Italy
Iraq
India
Chad
Mexico
Brazil
Ghana

World agriculture: towards 2015/2030 is FAO’s latest assessment of the long-term outlook for the world’s food supplies, nutrition and agriculture. It presents the projections and the main messages. The projections cover supply and demand for the major agricultural commodities and sectors, including fisheries and forestry. This analysis forms the basis for a more detailed examination of other factors, such as nutrition and undernourishment, and the implications for international trade.

Management and utilization of the tropical moist forest - from the FAO Committee on forest development in the tropics - extracts

Journal Articles & Books
November, 1976
Italy

This special issue of Unasylva has two main objectives. It brings to our readers an edited selection of some of the position papers of the important 4th Session of the FAO Committee on Forestry Development in the Tropics and, in doing, this, it emphasizes FAO's principal concern in the field of forestry: how to make the best and wisest use of man's least understood ecological formation, the moist tropical forest.

Non-thematic issue

Journal Articles & Books
November, 1948
France
Switzerland
United States of America
China
Syrian Arab Republic
Canada
Finland
Brazil
Lebanon

An international journal of forestry and forest industries

Putting Payments for Environmental Services in the Context of Economic Development

Journal Articles & Books
November, 2006
Brazil
United States of America
Mexico
Costa Rica
Germany
China
Italy

Paying for the provision of environmental services is a recent policy innovation that is attracting much attention in both developed and developing countries. The innovation involves a move away from command and control environmental policies, harnessing market forces to obtain more efficient environmental outcomes.