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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 4836 - 4840 of 5073Land Reform in Eastern Europe - Western CIS, Transcaucuses, Balkans, and EU Accession Countries
The former socialist countries of Eastern Europe (that is, Europe east of Germany and west of the Urals, but including all of Russia) began a transition to a market economy in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. This paper looks at one aspect of that transition: the transition from state ownership to private ownership of agricultural land and the accompanying transition to a land market for agricultural land.
Poverty alleviation and food security in Asia: land resources
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Approaches to land classification
The papers presented here formed a part of the background documentation of an Expert Consultation on Land Evaluation for Rural Purposes, which was convened by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in co-operation with the University of Agriculture and the International Institute for Land Reclamation and Improvement, Wageningen, Netherlands. The meeting was held at the International Agricultural Centre, Wageningen, 6-12 October 1972.
Gender and land compendium of country studies
From the outset, the development of agriculture has been strongly associated
with women’s endeavour. In fact, women’s contribution to agriculture goes
back to the origins of farming and the domestication of animals when the first
human settlements were established more than 6 000 years ago. Over the
years, the division of responsibilities and labour within households and
communities tended to place farming and nutrition-related tasks under
women’s domain. Nowadays, in many societies women continue to be mainly
Assessing carbon stocks and modelling win-win scenarios of carbon sequestration though land-use changes
This publications presents a methodology and software for assessing carbon sequestration that were developed and tested in pilot field studies in Mexico and Cuba. The models and tools enable the analysis of land use change scenarios in order to identifyin a given area (watershed or district) land use alternatives and land management practices that simultaneously maximize food production, maximize soil carbon sequestration, maximize biodiversity conservation and minimize land degradation.