The potential to meet global food demand fully exists through globaldevelopment of the high-technology (HT), high-intensity type of agriculture andfood processing system prevailing in developed countries. This systemunfortunately is also responsible for much natural resource degradation,environmental damage and ecological imbalance. Meantime the Earth's humanpopulation continues to grow, placing ever-increasing demand on global naturalresources, not only for food but also for living and recreational space.
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsDecember, 2002Canada
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2002Canada
Privately owned forest lands contribute significant amounts of land for wood supply and recreational opportunities in various parts of Canada including areas within Ontario. The decisions that landowners make about permitting various activities on their lands can impact resource managers and current and potential users of forested environments. In this study, the willingness of Ontario's non-industrial private forest landowners to conduct forest harvesting and to permit hunting and wildlife recreational opportunities is examined.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2002Egypt, Canada, Africa
It is generally recognized that the ongoing availability of good quality natural resources and skilled work force are the two central pillars of a modern economy. This fact is recognized by senior decision makers every where and especially those managing the economies of the industrialized nations. But because of historically much stronger ties to the vast Canadian land mass and traditionally a resource-based economy, people and the governments in Canada, have been more aware of the direct linkages between a healthy biophysical environment and the good quality of life.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2002France, Benin, Switzerland, Chile, Ukraine, China, Australia, Ireland, Canada, Venezuela, Guinea, Colombia, Japan, Italy, Brazil, Argentina, United Kingdom, Mexico, Norway
Land and land reform cover a great range, both in terms of the geographical and development status of the countries considered, and of the variety of perspectives on the issues. The articles in this issue of Land Reform, Land Resettlement and Cooperatives reflect this breadth in a variety of ways. The articles range geographically from the paper addressing land and agrarian reform in Colombia, by Professor Darío Fajardo, to a consideration of the land reforms currently under way in Scotland, by Douglas Macmillan, Ken Thomson and Bill Slee.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2002Rwanda, Laos, Kenya, South Africa, Gambia, Vietnam, Sweden, Zimbabwe, China, Italy, Canada, India
This guide on Gender and access to land has been prepared to support land administrators in governments and their counterparts in civil society who are involved in land access and land administration questions in rural development. It is frequently the case that gender issues are left out or misunderstood in such situations, often with negative results. This guide is designed to show where and why gender inclusion is important in projects and programmes that aim at improving land tenure and land administration arrangements.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2002Angola, France, Bangladesh, Honduras, Mozambique, Iraq, El Salvador, Afghanistan, Burundi, Zimbabwe, Guatemala, Eswatini, Canada, Congo, Ukraine, Malawi, Pakistan, Kenya, Lesotho, Botswana, Nicaragua, Ghana
La situation mondiale de l’alimentation et de l’agriculture 2002 est le rapport annuel de la FAO sur les nouvelles tendances et les problèmes courants de l’agriculture mondiale. Il examine la situation agricole dans le monde et l’environnement économique global dans lequel s’inscrit aujourd’hui l’agriculture mondiale, _ et propose cette année un tour d’horizon du déroulement des négociations _ sur le commerce international des produits agricoles à la suite du lancement d’un nouveau cycle de négociations commerciales multilatérales de l’Organisation mondiale du commerce.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2002Algeria, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Indonesia, Australia, Canada, Iran, Malawi, Pakistan, Ethiopia, New Zealand, Kenya, Jordan, Malaysia, Haiti, Eritrea, Brazil, Tunisia, Sudan, Vietnam, Uruguay
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2002Nepal, Kenya, Ecuador, Mexico, Canada
Une dclaration du Directeur gnral de la FAO et du Roi du Npal, un aperu de certains aspects des montagnes et des activits apparentes entreprises dans des pays comme la Bolivie, l'Italie, le Kirghizistan et le Prou, et des informations sur les forts montagnardes, les forts tropicales de brouillard et les montagnes sacres compltent cette incursion d'Unasylva dans les montagnes.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2002United States of America, Sweden, Chile, China, Australia, United Kingdom, Canada, Republic of Korea, Holy See, New Zealand, Cyprus, Japan, Nicaragua, Turkey, Italy, Portugal, Brazil, Argentina, India, Paraguay, Norway
Temperate broad-leaved trees grow in different ecosystems in the northern and southern hemispheres, but are also found extensively in many tropical and subtropical mountain areas. A wide range of non-wood forest products derived from temperate broad-leaved trees, and their description is organized in this volume according to the part of the tree from which they are obtained (whole tree, foliage, flowers, etc.).
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2002Burkina Faso, United States of America, Kenya, Guatemala, Sri Lanka, Ireland, Canada, Congo, Costa Rica, France, Mozambique, Uganda, Belize, Madagascar, Tanzania, Portugal, Brazil, Ghana
Une forêt qui renferme 1 000 espèces est-elle meilleure et mieux gérée qu'une forêt qui ne contient que 500 espèces? Unasylva consacre son numéro à la diversité biologique des forêts et à sa conservation et sa gestion durable. L'un des points cardinaux de son message est que le nombre n'est pas le seul critère d'évaluation.
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