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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 3531 - 3535 of 5074Agricultural Environmental Information and Decision Support Tools for Sustainable Development
Meeting Name: Two Side Events: 1) Bridging the Rural Digital Divide - Information and Communication in support of Rural Livelihoods (DFID) 2)International Assessment of the Role of Agricultural Science and Technology in Reducing Hunger (World Bank)
Meeting symbol/code: COAG 2003/8
Información agroambiental e instrumentos de apoyo a las decisiones en favor del desarrollo sostenible
Meeting Name: Two Side Events: 1) Bridging the Rural Digital Divide - Information and Communication in support of Rural Livelihoods (DFID) 2)International Assessment of the Role of Agricultural Science and Technology in Reducing Hunger (World Bank)
Meeting symbol/code: COAG 2003/8
ACTES DE LA SECONDE RENCONTRE D’EXPERTS SUR L’HARMONISATION DES DÉFINITIONS SUR LES FORÊTS À L’USAGE DES DIFFÉRENTES PARTIES PRENANTES
Il y a neuf mois à peine, la FAO, le GIEC, l’IUFRO et le CIFOR ont convenu de la première Rencontre d’experts sur l’harmonisation des définitions sur les forêts à l’usage des différentes parties prenantes. Pour commencer, son objectif était d’harmoniser les définitions sur les forêts en ne prenant pas seulement en considération les questions de changement climatique et d’évaluation des ressources forestières, mais aussi celles de conservation de la biodiversité et d’aménagement des forêts.
Assessment of soil nutrient balance
Nutrient-balance assessments are valuable tools for delineating the consequences of farming on soil fertility. Various approaches and methods for different situations have been used. This bulletin presents a state-of-the-art overview of nutrient-balance studies. It brings out the evolution of the approaches and methods, provides for comparisons among them, features the improvements made, and highlights remaining issues. The analysis would be useful in further development of the assessment methodologies as reliable tools for devising time-scale soil fertility management interventions.
Community-based tree and forest product enterprises: market analysis and development, booklet D
The aim of Phase 2 is to select the most promising products and gather information for their further development, identifying potential markets and means of marketing. At the end of this phase, interest groups will be formed to further develop each of the selected products, and a team will be formed to undertake Phase 3.