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Expanding mariculture farther offshore - Technical, environmental, spatial and governance challenges

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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
natural resources management
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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Nominations for, and Establishment of the Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils. First meeting of the Plenary Assembly of the Global Soil Partnership

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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
land management
Meeting Name: Global Soil Partnership Plenary Assembly
Meeting symbol/code: GSPPA: I/2013/2
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National integrated mitigation planning in agriculture: A review paper

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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
natural resources management
agriculture
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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Первая сессия Пленарной ассамблеи Глобального почвенного партнерства

Reports & Research
December, 2013
France, Nigeria, United States of America, Peru, Australia, Morocco, United Kingdom, Canada, Iran, Ethiopia, Republic of Korea, Cameroon, Thailand, New Zealand, Costa Rica, Japan, Italy, Argentina, India, Sudan, China, Mexico, Saudi Arabia
land management
sustainable development
Meeting symbol/code: GSPPA-I/13/Report
Session: Sess.1
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First Meeting of the Global Soil Partnership Plenary Assembly

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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
land management
sustainable development
Meeting symbol/code: GSPPA-I/13/Report
Session: Sess.1
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National planning for GHG mitigation in agriculture: A guidance document - Mitigation of Climate Change in Agriculture Series 8

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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
forestry
natural resources management
agriculture
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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State of the Art Report on Global and Regional Soil Information: Where are we? Where to go?

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December, 2013
Angola, Greece, United States of America, Rwanda, China, Namibia, Australia, Eswatini, Canada, Iran, Iceland, Thailand, New Zealand, Kenya, Mozambique, Jordan, South Africa, Vietnam, Italy, Tanzania, Botswana, Kazakhstan, Mongolia
land information systems
land use mapping
Under the current challenges of food security, climate change adaptation and mitigation, further provision of ecosystem services and sustainable intensification of agriculture, soil information becomes fundamental to guide wise policies and decisions. This document reviews the present availability of soil information from legacy maps and reports and from ongoing Digital Soil Mapping efforts. Currently, the soil science community is limited in its capacity to provide accurate and updated information to the different soil users.
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Climate change and agriculture scenarios for Malawi - Socio economic scenarios

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December, 2013
Rwanda, Kenya, South Africa, Somalia, Zimbabwe, China, Italy, Tanzania, Zambia, Ireland, Malawi, Africa
forestry
fisheries
peri-urban agriculture
This report contains the proceedings of the first workshop of an EC funded project designed to help Malawi obtain the tools, knowledge and capacities to adopt, advance, scale up and roll out solutions towards Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA). The aim of the workshop was to produce qualitative scenarios of Malawi's socio-economic futures, which will help make the analysis and quantitative modelling around CSA more robust and comprehensive.
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Proceedings of the Second Meeting for the Integral Use of Cactus Pear and Other Cacti and 1st South American Meeting of the FAO-ICARDA CACTUSNET Termas de Río Hondo, Santiago del Estero, Argentina September 17-19, 2012. CACTUSNET Newsletter Special Iss...

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December, 2013
Chile, United States of America, Israel, Sweden, Guatemala, China, Australia, Bolivia, Suriname, Venezuela, Eritrea, Yemen, Peru, South Africa, Ecuador, Argentina, Paraguay, Mexico, Brazil, South America, Americas
Land, Climate Change & Environment
desertification
En todas las regiones áridas y semiáridas del mundo se considera a “las tunas”, como proveedoras de usos múltiples con notables condiciones para zonas marginales. Los tunales, fueron siempre de interés para Santiago del Estero, Argentina, desde su fundación, iniciándose luego una serie ininterrumpida de esfuerzos para alcanzar un conocimiento exhaustivo sobre las mismas, tarea que aun continua. El grupo de trabajo de la Universidad Nacional de Santiago del Estero ha trabajado en el tema por largo tiempo, en forma constante, sostenida.