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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2016India, Nepal, Bangladesh
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2016India, Nepal, South-Eastern Asia
Although the Ganges River Basin (GRB) has abundant water resources, the seasonal monsoon causes a mismatch in water supply and demand, which creates severe water-related challenges for the people living in the basin, the rapidly growing economy and the environment. Addressing these increasing challenges will depend on how people manage the basin’s groundwater resources, on which the reliance will increase further due to limited prospects for additional surface storage development.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksApril, 2016India, Asia, Southern Asia
Small landholders can implement a range of climatesmart agricultural (CSA) practices and technologies, in order to minimize the adverse effects of climate change and variability, but their adoption largely depends on economic benefits associated with the practices. To demonstrate the potential economic benefits of CSA practices, we conducted a study with smallholder farmers in the Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP) of India.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2016India, China, Asia
FAO’s programme in India is primarily guided by GOI priorities and further shaped by FAO’s corporate priorities that play a catalytic role in supporting India to: (i) reduce rural poverty; (ii) promote inclusive and efficient agricultural and food systems; (iii) eradicate hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition; (iv) provide goods and services from agriculture, forestry, and fisheries in a sustainable manner; (v) increase resilience; and (vi) provision of global goods. In doing so, FAO will also address cross-cutting issues such as gender and climate change.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksMay, 2016France, Bangladesh, Mali, China, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Australia, Cuba, Pakistan, Myanmar, Colombia, Thailand, Nepal, Laos, Vietnam, Italy, Cambodia, India, Brazil, Oceania, Asia
Seeking to gain a better understanding of the role that agroecology can play in eradicating hunger and malnutrition, FAO organized the Multistakeholder Consultation on agroecology for Asia and the Pacific, held in Bangkok, Thailand on 24-26 November 2015. FAO acted as a facilitator to enable debates and foster collaboration among a variety of actors in order to advance science, knowledge, public policies, programmes and experiences on agroecology, supporting the strengthening of the already-extensive evidence-based knowledge for agroecological approaches in agriculture.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2016France, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, Mauritius, Canada, Mali, Germany, Indonesia, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Comoros, Cameroon, South Africa, Netherlands, India, Ghana
Forests are essential to life on our planet, to mitigating and adapting to climate change, ensuring adequate supply of fresh water, enhancing biodiversity and providing sustainable incomes and livelihoods, including food security. But they face unprecedented and unrelenting pressures. This issue includes a broad selection of the best papers submitted to the XIV World Forestry Congress (Durban, September 2015), as well as an overview of the Congress’s ambitious agenda and outcomes.
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