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Healthy soil, Healthy planet, Healthy people

Journal Articles & Books
July, 2022
Kenya, Brazil
Land Degradation & Tenure
development
rural development
environment
climate change
desertification
land degradation
agriculture
water
We cannot live without healthy soil and land. It is on these resources that we produce most of our food and build our homes. We need them to provide clean water and precious plant nutrients, to conserve biological diversity and to cope with climate change. And they form the basis for the livelihoods of millions of people. But despite such known facts, these valuable resources are in a dire state. A third of all soils world-wide are already degraded, and each year, further huge expanses of fertile land go lost.
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Gender, Agriculture and Rural Development in Uzbekistan

Reports & Research
December, 2019
Uzbekistan
Land & Gender
Land, Climate Change & Environment
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
rural development
climate change
farmland
farming systems
agriculture
women
Gender equality is a key to eliminating poverty and hunger, as it has been demonstrated by the FAO throughout its research worldwide. As part of the FAO efforts on generating evidence and knowledge, and in compliance with the FAO Policy on Gender Equality, the purpose of the Country Gender Assessment for Uzbekistan is to contribute to the production of knowledge for better informed, targeted and gender sensitive actions in agriculture and rural development.
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Agricultura, desarrollo rural, tierra, sequía y desertificación: resultados, tendencias y desafíos para el desarrollo sostenible de América Latina y el Caribe

Proyecto "Hacia una Globalización Sostenible y Equitativa (GER/06/002)"

Reports & Research
April, 2008
Latin America and the Caribbean
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
agriculture
climate change
deforestation
desertification
land use
rural development
sustainable development
En el presente documento se analizan los principales temas relacionados con el desarrollo agropecuario y rural, y la situación del medio ambiente y los recursos naturales de América Latina y el Caribe en el período 1990 a 2005. El documento está estructurado en torno a cinco ejes temáticos: i) desarrollo productivo; ii) deforestación; iii) degradación y desertificación; iv) factores sociales y demográficos, pobreza, ingreso y empleo, y cambios poblacionales, y v) cambio climático y desastres naturales.
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Land Reform in the Era of Global Warming—Can Land Reforms Help Agriculture Be Climate-Smart?

Volume 9 Issue 12

Peer-reviewed publication
December, 2020
Norway, United States of America, Global
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
agricultural land management
agriculture
climate change
land reform
land tenure
land tenure systems
rural development
sustainable development
sustainable land management
In an era of global warming, long-standing challenges for rural populations, including land inequality, poverty and food insecurity, risk being exacerbated by the effects of climate change. Innovative and effective approaches, such as Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA), are required to alleviate these environmental pressures without hampering efficiency.
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Colaborarea Republicii Moldova cu Organizaţia Naţiunilor Unite pentru Alimentaţie și Agricultură (F.A.O.)

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2016
Moldova
Land, Climate Change & Environment
agriculture
climate change
land reform
rural development
In this article the author has aimed a study on F.A.O. regarding historical aspects of formation F.A.O. as a specialized agency of the UN, analysis directions of its activity, its main functions etc. The author also aims to examine specific issues related to cooperation between F.A.O. and Moldova, directions and areas of cooperation, the development of these relations, the legislation which materializes the legal relations of collaboration and the benefits they had the Republic of Moldova as a result of collaboration with F.A.O.
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Bolivia: Mujeres amazónicas castañeras y su lucha permanente y grupal pese a la sequía

Policy Papers & Briefs
August, 2017
Bolivia
agriculture
contract farming
climate change
development
rural development
women
Bolivia: Mujeres amazónicas castañeras y su lucha permanente y grupal pese a la sequía

Claudia Soruco

INTRODUCCIÓN
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Technologies for climate change adaptation: agriculture sector

January, 2011
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Food Security
food security
climate change
land use
fisheries
poverty
rural development
agriculture
capacity development
The agriculture sector faces the challenge of providing adequate food to a growing world population. There is limited scope to expand arable land, and unpredictable weather, floods, and other disastrous events make food production even more challenging. This guidebook provides information on 22 technologies and options for adapting to climate change in the agriculture sector.
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Mitigating the impact of climate change and land degradation through IFAD’s COSOP in Viet Nam.

January, 2008
Vietnam
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land
climate change
rural development
land degradation
agriculture
This report analyses the impact of climate change and land degradation on agriculture and related sectors in Viet Nam. It intends to guide the project based on the design of the Country Strategic Opportunities Paper (COSOP) priorities and to identify supplementary financing for International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) projects from the UNFCCC and other carbon related financing mechanisms. It is explained that the harmful effects of climate change are already being experienced in Viet Nam, and farming communities have begun to respond by:
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Rehabilitating degraded land

January, 2008
Nepal, Mauritania, Mali, China, Uzbekistan, India, Chad, Eastern Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Southern Asia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Food Security
food security
climate change
environment
land
rural development
land degradation
agriculture
Across vast areas of the world, human activity has degraded once fertile and productive land. Deforestation, overgrazing, continuous farming and poor irrigation practices have affected almost 2 billion hectares worldwide, threatening the health and livelihoods of over one billion people. In this edition of New Agriculturist, a collection of articles explores some of the approaches and policies that can help to successfully rehabilitate degraded land.
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The Chinyanja Triangle in the Zambezi River Basin, Southern Africa: status of, and prospects for, agriculture, natural resources management and rural development

January, 2014
Sub-Saharan Africa
Land, Climate Change & Environment
development
mining
climate change
environment
poverty
rural development
natural resources management
agriculture
This paper, which focuses on the Chinyanja Triangle (CT), an area inside the Zambezi River Basin, characterises three distinct farming subsystems across rainfall gradients, namely maize-beans-fish, sorghum-millet-livestock and the livestock-dominated subsystem. It presents the socioeconomic characteristics, historical drivers of change, resources use and management (water, land, forestry) and the institutional disincentives affecting agricultural production and productivity in the region.