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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 1996
    South Africa, Lesotho, Italy, Africa

    This note on the Machobane system is based on information gathered by an FAO Investment Centre mission which visited Lesotho in July 1996 on behalf of the Government and the International Fund for Agricultural Development, to prepare the ground for the formulation of a Sustainable Mountain Agriculture Programme for possible IFAD financing. Observations of farmers attitudes and behaviour as well as relevant socio-economic data were collected in February 1996 in several villages of two Districts in Lesotho and are presented. See also the related FAO Investment Centre Occasional Paper N.

  2. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 1996
    Romania, Laos, India, Italy, Madagascar, Myanmar

    The Fourth International Technical Conference on Plant Genetic Resources, organized in Leipzig, Germany 17-23 June 1996 (see this number of the Forest Genetic Resources bulletin [FGR]), adopted a Global Plan of Action for the Conservation and Sustainable Utilization of Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.This plan excluded consideration of forest genetic resources, "..

  3. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 1996
    Kenya, Pakistan, Eswatini, China, Italy
  4. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 1996
    Tanzania, Kenya, Ecuador, Sweden, Cameroon, Thailand, Italy
  5. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 1996
    France, Philippines, South Africa, Spain, Germany, China, Italy, Tonga, Peru, Argentina, United Kingdom, Costa Rica, Georgia, Canada

    The late 20th century has witnessed increasing crises in the world's marine fisheries. A causal analysis of these reveals that a common element are various manifestations of spatial inequity. This most frequently includes the inequity of access rights to the resource, but factors such as variations in resource depletion, spatio-temporal variations in stock recruitment, the imposition of regulatory zoning, destruction of marine ecosystems and the siting of mariculture facilities are other examples. To resolve some of these problems, management practices must be improved.

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 1996
    Lesotho, Italy, Africa

    In Lesotho, some externally financed agricultural development projects have appeared particularly prone to failure. One reason may be that, when designed, projects have not been subjected to sufficiently rigorous analysis, particularly with regard to expected farmers' response to extension messages.

  7. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 1996
    Mali, Sweden, Canada, Italy

    This issue of Unasylva considers some of the issues related to forest-dwelling and forest-dependent people, and particularly their role in and relationship to sustainable forest management.

  8. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 1996
    Morocco, Dominican Republic, Mexico, China, Italy, Bolivia, Cuba, Cameroon
  9. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 1996
    Algeria, Qatar, Egypt, Iran, Mauritania, Iraq, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Morocco, Malta, Pakistan, Jordan, Cyprus, Libya, Somalia, Oman, Syrian Arab Republic, Kuwait, Tunisia, Sudan, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon

    This paper outlines FAO's past and present activities on combating desertification, with particular emphasis on the Near East Region, in an attempt to mobilise all the potential efforts towards the establishment of an adequate strategy to enable this particular part of the world to build efficient regional and national programmes to combat resource degradation, restore land productivity and achieve food security.

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