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Displaying 4811 - 4815 of 5074Manual for Local Level Assessment of Land Degradation and Sustainable Land Management Part 2 - Field methodology and tools
This document is the second part of a two part manual on local level assessment of land degradation and sustainable land management:
? Part 1 ? Planning and Methodological Approach, Analysis and Reporting
? Part 2 ? Field Methodology and Tools
The two parts should be used together as Part 1 provides the background information for the conduct of the methods and tools that are provided in Part 2.
Near East Regional Assessment for the FAO Voluntary Guidelines on Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land and Other Natural Resources
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and several development partners are working together with countries to prepare Voluntary Guidelines that will provide practical guidance to states, civil society, the private sector, academic and research institutions, donors and development specialists on the responsible governance of tenure.
The Resource Outlook to 2050: by how much do land, water and crop yields need to increase by 2050?
This paper discusses the natural resource implications of the latest FAO food and agriculture baseline
projections to 2050 (FAO, 2006a). These projections offer a comprehensive (food and feed demand,
including all foreseeable diet changes, trade and production) and consistent picture of the food and
agricultural situation in 2030 and 2050. The main purpose of this paper is to provide an indication of the
additional demands on natural resources derived from the crop production levels in 2030 and 2050 as
Impact of shrimp farming on arable land and rehabilitation of resultant salt-affected soils/integrated soil management for sustainable use of salt-affected soils
The development of agricultural technologies and a better appreciation of the existing but under-utilised knowledge of resource management will be crucial in meeting the ecological needs and in achieving the anticipated food demands of the growing population in the future. The greatest challenge for the coming decades lies in the fact that the production environments are unstable and degrading. Land degradation is proceeding so fast that unless policies and approaches change, many countries will not be able to achieve sustainable agriculture in the foreseeable future.
Guidelines: land evaluation for extensive grazing
Extensive grazing is the predominant form of land use on at least a quarter of the world’s land surface, in which livestock are raised on food that comes mainly from rangelands. Extensive grazing differs from crop or forestry production, in which the produce remains in situ whilst growing. Evaluation for extensive grazing, unlike that for cropping or forestry, must take into account the production of both grazing forage, termed primary production, and the livestock that feed on this forage, termed secondary production.