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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 4631 - 4635 of 5073FAO - UNESCO Soil Map of the World (Revised Legend, with corrections and updates). World Soil Resources Reports 60
Plan d'action forestier tropical pour l'Amérique Latine
En ouvrant la 8e session du Comit FAO de la mise en valeur des forts dans les tropiques, qui a sig Rome au milieu de septembre 1987 (voir Le monde forestier), M. D.J. Walton, Directeur gnral adjoint de la FAO, a tabli un parallle entre la situation de la foresterie aujourd'hui et celle de l'agriculture pendant les annes 70. C'est seulement lorsque les responsables extrieurs au secteur agricole se sont rendu compte du cot social et conomique de l'abandon de ce secteur que les choses ont commenc changer.
Ordenación de los bosques higrofiticos tropicales informe actualizado
El principal articulo de este nmero de Unasylva, titulado Ordenacin de los bosques higrofticos tropicales: informe actualizado, es el tercero de una serie dedicada a esa ordenacin. En el articulo, R. Schmidt, Oficial de montes de la FAO, examine los aspectos tcnicos de la ordenacin de los, bosques tropicales naturales, pasando revista a los recientes estudios e informes de la FAO sobre proyectos anteriores y actuales de ordenacin de bosques tropicales realizados por los gobiernos con asistencia de la Organizacin.
Microcomputer-based data processing: 1990 World Census of Agriculture
This book provides guidance on processing the census of agriculture data in an efficient and cost-efficient way. The purpose of this book is to provide guidance on processing of micro-computer agricultural census data to those countries that will participate in FAO's 1990 World Census of Agriculture.
Administration and conflict management in Japanese coastal fisheries
Japanese coastal fishermen have legally-guaranteed equitable access to and “ownership” of the living aquatic resources of coastal waters, through an elaborate fisheries rights system. In Japan no conceptual distinction exists between land holdings and land tenure and sea holdings, or sea tenure, and fisheries enjoy a legal status equal to that of land ownership. Sea tenure in Japanese coastal fisheries is a complex subject that is little known in the West.