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   FAO activities and Achievements and its Role in Combating Desertification in the Near East Region

   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

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   Forest Tenure

   deforestation

   environment

   desertification

   land improvement

   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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   Egypt - Linking Funding to Outputs : Expenditures of the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation

   March, 2012

   Egypt

   agriculture

   climate change

   desertification

   farmers

   farming systems

   fisheries

   food security

   forestry

   land reform

   rural development

   This review of the on-budget expenditure
   of the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation (MALR)
   in Egypt describes the broad outline of the MARL's
   expenditures and identifies key themes and issues. The
   report examines how the context of the agricultural sector
   has changed, and the adjustment challenge that such change
   poses for the MALR. It explains how the MALR is thinking
   about the future, describes the structures of the MALR, and