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Enhancing countries’ capacity to report to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change on greenhouse gas emissions for the Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use sector: Colombia

Reports & Research
December, 2016
Spain, Malaysia, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Trinidad and Tobago, Costa Rica, Mexico, Brazil, Americas
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
deforestation
Colombia has submitted two national communications (NCs 2001, 2010) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), providing information on greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories, and measures to mitigate and facilitate adequate adaptation to climate change, among other information. In 2015, Colombia also presented its First Biennial Update Report (BUR), including the REDD+ technical annex. In 2010 and 2012, GHG emissions from the Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sector contributed to respectively 58 % and 43% of the national GHG emissions.
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An evolution in the middle: Examining the rise of multinational investment in smallholder grain trading in Zambia

Reports & Research
December, 2016
Mozambique, Kenya, Zambia, Chile, Guatemala, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Madagascar, India, Malawi, Netherlands, Africa
land management
African agrifood systems are being transformed by multinational capital. To date, research on this transformation has focused most intently on the rise of supermarkets and demand for African land. Multinational investment in African grain trading has received less attention. Using a range of qualitative methods and representative household survey data from Zambia, this article seeks to understand the causes and consequences of multinational investment in smallholder grain markets.
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Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems : GIAHS Information Sheet

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December, 2016
Algeria, Egypt, Bangladesh, Chile, Germany, Peru, Canada, Iran, Republic of Korea, Kenya, Morocco, Japan, Philippines, Italy, Tanzania, Tunisia, India, China, Brazil
Land, Climate Change & Environment
intensive land use
farmers
farming systems
land use
land-use planning
land degradation
<p>The purpose of this sheet is to provide comprehensive set of information on GIAHS Programme in a single document which summarizes all the core information uploaded in the website and written in the previously released sources.</p> The overall goal of the global initiative is to identify and safeguard Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems and their associated landscapes, agricultural biodiversity and knowledge systems through catalyzing and establishing a long-term programme to support such systems and enhance global, national and local benefits derived through thei
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Quinua: Manejo integrado de plagas

Journal Articles & Books
September, 2016
Estonia, El Salvador, Chile, Guatemala, Australia, Jamaica, Bolivia, Cuba, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Uruguay, Nicaragua, Madagascar, Colombia, Ecuador, Netherlands, Argentina, Paraguay, Mexico, Brazil, South America
natural resources management
La quinua es un ejemplo extraordinario de un cultivo que pasó de ser considerado olvidado a un cultivo de interés y consumo mundial, tanto es así que la Organización de las Naciones Unidas declararon el año 2013 el Año Internacional de la Quinua. Como todo cultivo en expansión, las plagas y enfermedades asociadas a este cultivo se constituyen en un serio factor restrictivo.
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Report of the Fourth Meeting of the Plenary Assembly of the Global Soil Partnership. Rome, Italy. 23-25 May 2016

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December, 2016
France, Bangladesh, Switzerland, Burundi, Chile, Germany, Bulgaria, Bolivia, Austria, Benin, Thailand, Nigeria, Mexico, Australia, Italy, Netherlands, Argentina, Russia, Armenia, Brazil
land management
See the <a href="http://www.fao.org/3/a-bl813e.pdf"><i>Voluntary Guidelines for Sustainable Soil Management </i></a> adopted by the fourth Global Soil Partnership Plenary Assembly.
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The State of the World’s Aquatic Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture - Draft Report

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December, 2016
Fiji, Estonia, Kenya, Chile, Samoa, Germany, Vanuatu, Tonga, Malawi, Republic of Korea, Colombia, Thailand, Nepal, Japan, Kiribati, Hungary, Cameroon, Tanzania, Brazil, Argentina, Latvia, Mexico, Uganda, Czech Republic
natural resources management
Meeting Name: Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (CGRFA)
Meeting symbol/code: CGRFA-16/17/Inf.13
Session: Sess. 16
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ДОКЛАД О РАБОТЕ ТРЕТЬЕЙ СЕССИИ ГРУППЫ ТЕХНИЧЕСКИХ И ЮРИДИЧЕСКИХ ЭКСПЕРТОВ ПО ВОПРОСАМ ДОСТУПА И РАСПРЕДЕЛЕНИЯ ВЫГОД

Reports & Research
December, 2016
Costa Rica, Switzerland, Japan, Samoa, Chile, Australia, Italy, Poland, Canada, Iran, Ethiopia, Namibia, Lebanon
natural resources management
Meeting Name: Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (CGRFA)
Meeting symbol/code: CGRFA-16/17/6
Session: Sess.16
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Report of the first session of the COFI Advisory Working Group on Aquatic Genetic Resources and Technologies, Brasilia, Brazil, 1–2 October 2015

Journal Articles & Books
April, 2016
South Africa, Malaysia, Chile, Italy, Australia, Brazil, Iran, Russia, Thailand
fisheries
natural resources management
The relevance of the sustainable use, management and conservation of aquatic genetic resources (AqGR) for food and agriculture is relatively well known and documented, but there is still an urgent need to preserve and better manage existing aquatic diversity to enhance its contribution to food security, nutrition and livelihoods. Aquatic genetic resources for food and agriculture include thousands of species, which are found in the world’s oceans, seas, lakes, reservoirs, rivers, rice paddies and other wetlands, and also in aquaculture facilities in marine, brackish and fresh waters.
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Base referencial mundial del recurso suelo 2014: Sistema internacional de clasificación de suelos para la nomenclatura de suelos y la creación de leyendas de mapas de suelos

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2016
France, United States of America, Luxembourg, Chile, Australia, Denmark, Netherlands, Poland, Bulgaria, Ghana, Argentina, New Zealand, Canada, Brazil, Austria
land-use planning
land use
land use mapping
La tercera edición de la WRB incorpora, en el nuevo capítulo 2, elementos que permiten generar nombres taxonómicos mucho más informativos que llevan a deducir con facilidad la génesis y funciones de los suelos. Por otro lado, esta nueva versión de la WRB facilita la elaboración de leyendas de mapas a varias escalas para uso multifinalitario.
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Developing gender-equitable legal frameworks for land tenure

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February, 2016
Bangladesh, Honduras, Kenya, Chile, Peru, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Colombia, Rwanda, Morocco, South Africa, Malaysia, Dominican Republic, Madagascar, Italy, Saudi Arabia
land tenure
Effective policy and legal advice requires a clear understanding of the gaps and discrepancies in the policies and legislation pertaining to gender and land. This paper introduces a Legal Assessment Tool (LAT) for gender-equitable land tenure, developed under the Gender and Land Rights Database (GLRD) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), for the purpose of providing prompt, targeted and effective policy and legal advice to countries working towards gender-equitable land tenure.