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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 4301 - 4305 of 5073L'application regional application of GIS: "localization of fleet activities and production tools". Version N.2
Details are given of a Geographic Information System, developed within project activities regarding countries along the West Coast of Africa, which enables the spatio-temporal exploration of fleets and their production tools (boats, gear, fishermen). The model proposed constitutes a prototype common to numerous countries, which aims to be the nucleus of a future regional database. The entities and program modules may be adjusted by the various institutions utilizing it and then eventually be adopted at a regional level.
Réformer les politiques dans le domaine des ressources en eau: Guide des méthodes, processus et pratiques. (Bulletin FAO d'irrigation et de drainage - 52)
Le financement de la foresterie durable
Ce numro d'Unasylva se penche sur divers aspects de la situation globale du financement de la foresterie et met en lumire certains secteurs qui pourraient - ou devraient - se mobiliser davantage. Il s'appuie en partie sur le matriel prsent l'Atelier de Pretoria (Afrique du Sud) de juin 1996 sur les mcanismes financiers et les sources de financement en faveur d'une foresterie durable.
Designing and scaling-up productive natural resource management programs: decentralization and institutions for collective action
The focus of this report is on NRM activities broadly defined as those that promote sustainable agricultural production through improvements in on-farm soil and water management, such as social forestry, micro-watershed management, irrigation water management, and soil conservation.