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  1. Library Resource

    Land Use Policy Volume 71

    Peer-reviewed publication
    February, 2018
    Canada, China, Germany, United Kingdom, Russia, United States of America

    Agriculture is an important type of land use but suffers from drought, especially under global climate change scenarios. Although government is a major actor in helping farmers to adapt to drought, lack of funds has constrained its efforts. Public-Private Partnership (PPP) mechanism has been widely applied in urban infrastructure development to raise fund for public goods and services, but very few studies explored its role in rural areas.

  2. Library Resource

    Volume 9 Issue 6

    Peer-reviewed publication
    June, 2020
    Russia, United States of America

    Landscape heterogeneity generates significant influences on economic activity. Present-day publications in landscape planning focus more and more on a participatory approach and a communication process. By contrast, we focus on nature-based criteria aimed at proper adaptation of planning decisions to natural landscape patterns. The paper proposes the framework aimed at considering geographical context, matter flows, and dynamic processes in projecting ecological network and perfect sites for various land use types as well as for choosing appropriate technologies.

  3. Library Resource
    Institutional & promotional materials
    June, 2018
    Russia, Italy

    The Voluntary Guidelines for Sustainable Soil Management (VGSSM) were adopted by the 4th GSP Plenary Assembly (Rome, 25 May 2016), approved by the 25th session of the FAO Committee on Agriculture (Rome, 28 September 2016) and finally endorsed by the 155th session of the FAO Council (Rome, 5 December 2016). These guidelines provide technical and policy recommendations on how sustainable soil management can be achieved. The successful implementation of these guidelines should pave the way to boost ing soil health

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2016
    France, Slovakia, Belgium, Peru, Jamaica, Canada, Iran, Costa Rica, Thailand, Switzerland, Republic of Korea, Japan, South Africa, Italy, Tanzania, Brazil, Russia, China, Mexico, Norway, Lebanon

    Meeting Name: FAO Committee on Forestry
    Meeting symbol/code: COFO 2016/REP
    Session: Sess. 23

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2015
    Switzerland, United States of America, Spain, South Africa, Sweden, Germany, Netherlands, Russia, Finland

    This document summarizes the latest global and regional policy developments related to forests. It describes decisions resulting from international and intergovernmental processes and identifies areas where these decisions may have an impact on the forest sector in the COFFI and EFC region. It also notes the possible role of the Committee and the Commission in facilitation of implementation of these policy processes. Furthermore the document includes a brief overview of the global and regional reporting on forests and sustainable forest management in the region, concluded in 2015.

  6. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2015
    United States of America, Peru, Indonesia, Australia, Bolivia, China, Malta, Russia, Italy, Finland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Japan, Uganda, Myanmar, Argentina, India, United Kingdom, Paraguay, Mexico, Brazil, Canada

    This paper introduces a Special Issue of Forest Ecology and Management that includes a collection of analytical results from the 2015 Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA 2015) covering 25 years of forest change (1990–2015). FRA 2015 builds on a series of global assessments that began in 1948 and covers change in forest area and type, volume, biomass and carbon stocking, measures of sustainable forest management, biodiversity and conservation, soil and water protective functions, wood production and a number of socio-economic variables.

  7. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2013
    Switzerland, Japan, Germany, United Kingdom, Papua New Guinea, Russia, Mexico, Brazil, Democratic Republic of the Congo

    This document builds on the brief paper presented at the 7th Meeting of the UN-REDD Programme Policy Board, held in Berlin, October 2011 (UNREDD/PB7/2011/13), which lays out ways to consider the REDD+ monitoring and information provision needs in the broader context of national development and environmental strategies, at the implementation level.

  8. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2015
    Serbia, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain, Luxembourg, Ireland, Azerbaijan, Germany, United Kingdom, Austria, Ukraine, Finland, Lithuania, Turkey, Kyrgyzstan, Albania, Uzbekistan, Poland, Russia, Georgia, Hungary, Europe

    Meeting Name: Committee on Forests and the Forest Industry
    Meeting symbol/code: FO:EFC/2015/Inf.3 - ECE/TIM/2015/Inf.3
    Session: Sess.38 - Sess.73

  9. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2015
    France, Belgium, Spain, Sweden, Chile, Germany, China, Bolivia, Finland, Malaysia, Turkey, Kyrgyzstan, Italy, Brazil, Russia, Paraguay, Hungary, Norway, Europe

    Meeting Name: European Forestry Commission
    Meeting symbol/code: FO:EFC/2015/11 - ECE/TIM/2015/11
    Session: Sess.38 - Sess.73

  10. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2015
    Luxembourg, Turkey, Moldova, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Russia, Kazakhstan, Europe, Central Asia

    Meeting Name: European Commission on Agriculture
    Meeting symbol/code: ECA/39/15/3
    Session: Sess. 39

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