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    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2013
    Chile, United States of America, Dominican Republic, Israel, Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Belize, Canada, Panama, New Zealand, Cyprus, Mauritius, Japan, Turkey, Spain, Italy, Brazil, Bahamas, China, Mexico, Norway

    This document contains the proceedings of the technical workshop entitled “Expanding mariculture: technical, environmental, spatial and governance challenges”, held from 22 to 25 March 2010, in Orbetello, Italy, and organized by the Aquaculture Branch of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Department of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

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    Reports & Research
    December, 2013
    Jordan, Nigeria, New Zealand, Mexico, Republic of Korea, Australia, Italy

    The Global Soil Partnership (GSP) was formally established by members of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) during its Council in December 2012. The Council recognized soil as an essential natural resource, which is often overlooked and has not received adequate attention in recent years, despite the fact that production of food, fiber, fodder, and fuel critically depends on healthy soils.

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    Reports & Research
    December, 2013
    France, Nigeria, United States of America, Peru, Morocco, United Kingdom, Canada, Iran, Ethiopia, Republic of Korea, Cameroon, Thailand, Slovakia, Costa Rica, Japan, Italy, Argentina, India, Sudan, New Zealand, China, Mexico, Saudi Arabia

    Meeting Name: Global Soil Partnership Plenary Assembly
    Meeting symbol/code: GSPPA: I/2013/2

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    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2013
    Qatar, France, Honduras, Japan, Nicaragua, Chile, Australia, Ireland, Canada, Venezuela, United Kingdom, Samoa, Maldives, Kenya

    The purpose of the United Nations challenge badges is to raise awareness, educate and, most of all, motivate young people to change their behaviour and be active agents of change in their local communities. Challenge badges are appropriate for use with school classes and youth groups, and are endorsed by WAGGGS and WOSM. They include a wide range of activities and ideas that can easily be adapted by teachers or leaders.

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    Reports & Research
    December, 2013
    Algeria, Bangladesh, Dominican Republic, Chile, Germany, China, Zimbabwe, Australia, Bolivia, Canada, Iceland, Costa Rica, Colombia, Thailand, Italy, Cameroon, Cuba, Argentina, Russia, Czech Republic, Brazil, Austria

    Meeting symbol/code: GSPPA-I/13/Report
    Session: Sess.1

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    Reports & Research
    December, 2013
    Norway, Japan, Vietnam, Thailand, Italy, Asia

    The objective of the CPF is to identify priority areas for FAO’s support and formulate the implementation plan for the 2012-2016 period. FAO’s priority areas are selected based on Viet Nam’s Socio-Economic Development Strategy (2010-19), strategic development plans of agriculture, forestry and fishery in Viet Nam and the strengths and experience of FAO Viet Nam.

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    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2013
    North Macedonia, United States of America, Germany, China, Azerbaijan, Indonesia, Ghana, Ethiopia, Italy, Finland, Colombia, Kenya, Jordan, Morocco, Barbados, Mexico, Moldova, Armenia, Brazil, Montenegro, Norway

    This review of national greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation planning in the agriculture sector provides national policy makers and others in the agriculture sector with an overview of national mitigation planning processes to aid them in identifying the relevance of these processes for promoting agricultural development. It also gives policy makers and advisors involved in low-emission development planning processes an overview of mitigation planning in the agriculture sector and highlights the relevance of agriculture to national mitigation plans and actions.

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    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2013
    South Africa, Grenada, Canada, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, India, Norway, Germany, Netherlands, Australia, Fiji

    The Land Tenure Journal is a peer-reviewed, open-access flagship journal of the Climate, Energy and Tenure Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The Land Tenure Journal, launched in early 2010, is a successor to the Land Reform, Land Settlement and Co-operatives, which was published between 1964 and 2009. The Land Tenure Journal is a medium for the dissemination of quality information and diversified views on land and natural resources tenure.

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    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2013
    United States of America, Spain, Singapore, Japan, Peru, Italy, Colombia, Ecuador, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Costa Rica, Georgia, Barbados, Belize, Americas

    Climate change is likely to have adverse effects on the agriculture sector in Jamaica. Increase in the intensity and frequency of climate related natural hazards, increasing rainfall variability, droughts and floods combined with fragile ecosystems and coastal zones all contribute to Jamaica?s overall vulnerability to climate change. Climate change adaptation is one of the outcomes of the Vision 2030 Jamaica-National Development Plan.

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    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2013
    Egypt, North Macedonia, Brazil, United States of America, Rwanda, Germany, China, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Guyana, Republic of Korea, Finland, Ethiopia, Kenya, Costa Rica, Philippines, South Africa, Colombia, Uruguay, Cambodia, Mexico, Norway, Mongolia

    This guide describes two of the main approaches to greenhouse gas mitigation planning in developing countries: Low-Emission Development Strategies (LEDS) and Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs). It explains the possible relationships between them and their status within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). National mitigation planning processes have policy, technical and institutional dimensions that need to be addressed in an integrated and iterative manner. For each of these dimensions four key elements are outlined.

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