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  1. Library Resource
    Building a common vision for sustainable food and agriculture cover image

    Principles & Approaches

    Manuals & Guidelines
    December, 2014
    Global

    Over the coming 35 years, agriculture will face an unprecedented confluence of pressures, including a 30 percent increase in the global population, intensifying competition for increasingly scarce land, water and energy resources, and the existential threat of climate change. To provide for a population projected to reach 9.3 billion in 2050 and support changing dietary patterns, estimates are that food production will need to increase from the current 8.4 billion tonnes to almost 13.5 billion tonnes a year.

  2. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2014
    Algeria, China, Tunisia, Philippines, Chile, Peru, Asia

    Rice fish culture (RFC) of China is a pilot system supported by the FAO-GEF global Initiative on “Conservation and Adaptive Management of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System (GIAHS)” with the participation of Algeria, China, Chile, Peru, Philippines, and Tunisia.

  3. Library Resource
    August, 2014

    This policy note reviewed the status of
    farm machinery in the Kyrgyz Republic. Agricultural
    productivity, particularly in terms of grain yields, is low
    because of underinvestment. This note finds that a
    significant deficit in agricultural machinery is hindering
    sector productivity. The Kyrgyz Republic has fewer tractors
    per hectare than any comparable country, with a deficit
    estimated at 40 percent. The deficit of combine harvesters,

  4. Library Resource
    December, 2014
    Ukraine

    Ukraine is renowned as the breadbasket
    of Europe thanks to its black soils ( Chernozem black
    because of the high organic matter content) which offer
    exceptional agronomic conditions. One-third of the worldwide
    stock of the fertile black soils, which cover more than half
    of Ukraine s arable land, a large variety of climatic zones,
    and favourable temperature and moisture regimes, offers
    attractive conditions for the production of a large range of

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