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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2001
    Egypt, Nigeria, United States of America, Singapore, Vietnam, Somalia, France, China, Eritrea, Botswana, Haiti, Guinea, Malawi, Niger, Ethiopia

    This publication is a set of practical guidelines and norms for field project engineers for the design and building of small hydraulic structures using earth and gabions. This publication would be useful in designing small earth dams with a gabion spillway, intake weirs for gravity irrigation schemes, groynes, river bed training works and for protection against hydraulic erosion.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 1999
    Algeria, Angola, Bangladesh, United States of America, Iraq, Germany, Australia, Morocco, Bolivia, Austria, Venezuela, Republic of Korea, Finland, Colombia, Pakistan, Belgium, Japan, Lesotho, Costa Rica, Uruguay, Tunisia, Argentina, Brazil

    Meeting symbol/code: CL 116 9

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2000
    Egypt, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Kenya, Zambia, Zimbabwe, China, Namibia, Eswatini, Ghana, Iran, Djibouti, Malawi, Eritrea, Mozambique, South Africa, Lesotho, Malaysia, Italy, Tanzania, Botswana
  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2016
    Zambia, China, Australia, Cuba, New Zealand, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, Kyrgyzstan, Italy, Netherlands, Tunisia, Argentina, Senegal, Tajikistan, Mongolia

    This local level land resources assessment methodology (LADA-Local) was produced within the Land Degradation Assessment in Drylands (LADA) project. See Box 1 for the LADA project objectives and outcomes and the website <a href="http://www.fao.org/nr/lada">www.fao.org/nr/lada</a> for further information.

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2000
    Egypt, Bangladesh, United States of America, Zambia, Israel, Sweden, Zimbabwe, China, Namibia, Australia, Malawi, Mozambique, Jordan, South Africa, Lesotho, Italy, Tanzania, Botswana, India, Sudan, Brazil

    Water, an essential component of life supporting systems, is at the forefront of discussions on global sustainability and food security. Water also has a major role in poverty alleviation and local food security. The technology for a more effective use of the resource is known but institutional reforms needed to lead the world in a positive direction are proving difficult to establish. This study was commissioned to suscitate constructive discussion around many sensitive aspects of water policy.

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    May, 2007
    Algeria, Sudan, Egypt, Benin, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, China, Eswatini, Congo, Guinea, Niger, Cameroon, Morocco, South Africa, Lesotho, Madagascar, Zambia, Brazil, Tunisia, Senegal, Chad, Norway, Africa
  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2000
    Sudan, Egypt, United States of America, Rwanda, Zambia, Burundi, Namibia, Eswatini, Congo, Djibouti, Malawi, Comoros, Eritrea, Seychelles, Mozambique, Lesotho, Uganda, Somalia, Madagascar, Italy, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Kenya, Africa

    This paper discusses – at the sub-basin level – the regional differences and comparative advantages for agricultural development and water resources utilization in the Nile Basin. It looks at options for development, projected in the regional context, and the importance of agricultural water use for social and food security in the different parts of the basin.

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