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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 5074Land and water – the rights interface
This publication explores various aspects of the interface between water rights and land tenure. It is intended to synthetize and assess current learning on this topic, to define salient issues and to propose fruitful approaches for further investigation.
Rural Womens Access to Land and Property in Selected Countries
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW),
ratified by 175 countries, is the only human rights treaty that deals specifically with rural
women. This study, undertaken jointly by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the
International Land Coalition (ILC), analyses information on the status of rural women as provided
in selected reports to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against
Land and agriculture: From UNCED, Rio de Janeiro 1992 to WSSD, Johannesburg 2002
This conmpendium of recent sustainable development initiatives in the field of agriculture and land management has been developed as a supporting document for the Task Manager's Report on the Land and Agriculture Cluster for Chapters 10, 12 and 14 of Agenda 21. The report draws together 75 cases from over 45 countries, illustrating the many features of improved land management and sustainable agriculture and rural development.
Land 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
Abstract not available.