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  1. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    November, 2018
    Equatorial Guinea, Italy, Turkey, Afghanistan, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Ghana, Iran, Venezuela, Senegal, Guyana, Mongolia, China, Gabon, Brazil, Côte d'Ivoire

    In 1978 the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) published a Systematic Index of International Water Resources Treaties, Declarations, Acts and Cases by Basin (Legislative Study No. 15). The Index covered some 2000 international legal instruments the earliest dating from the year 805 and the most recent 1977.

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    Journal Articles & Books
    October, 2018
    Germany, Dominica, France, Honduras, Japan, Nicaragua, Panama, Dominican Republic, Chile, Guatemala, Montenegro, Cameroon, Belize, Colombia, Ghana, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Mexico, Brazil

    The World Banana Forum (WBF) publication developed a methodological guide to reduce water and carbon footprints in banana plantations worldwide. Members of the Working Group (WG) on Sustainable Production Systems and Environmental Impact acknowledged the contribution of banana production in the total global GHG emissions and the consumption of freshwater in the economic activity, both stressed in the 2015 Paris Climate Conference (COP21), having the agricultural sector a high mitigation potential.

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    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 1992
    Qatar, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Israel, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Bulgaria, Ghana, Somalia, Portugal, Kuwait, Chad, Mongolia, Iraq, China, Australia, Austria, Uruguay, Mozambique, Yemen, Albania, India

    En muchas partes del mundo la escasez cada vez mayor de agua y el mal uso de agua dulce plantea graves problemas al desarrollo sostenible. Como más de dos tercios del agua que se toma de los ríos, lagos y acuíferos de la tierra se destinan al riego, la agricultura se considera una válvula de seguridad del sistema. El capítulo especial de este año sobre política hídrica y agricultura analiza las repercusiones en las políticas de una mayor competencia, los conflictos, la escasez, el desperdicio, e l exceso de explotación y la degradación de los recursos hídricos.

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    Reports & Research
    December, 1999
    Angola, Burkina Faso, Bangladesh, Honduras, Mozambique, Iraq, El Salvador, Ghana, France, Guatemala, Canada, Iran, Venezuela, Pakistan, Kenya, Costa Rica, Oman, Lesotho, Madagascar, Myanmar, Kazakhstan, Gabon, Cuba

    Meeting symbol/code: CL 116 9

  5. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2014
    Angola, Honduras, Belize, Luxembourg, Burundi, Ghana, Congo, Venezuela, Sierra Leone, Myanmar, Uruguay, Panama, Mozambique, Lesotho, Rwanda, Iran, Gabon, Botswana, Canada, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Togo, Suriname
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    Reports & Research
    December, 1999
    Angola, Burkina Faso, Estonia, Bangladesh, Austria, Iraq, El Salvador, Chile, Guatemala, China, Australia, Bolivia, Ghana, Venezuela, Guinea, Costa Rica, Eritrea, Lesotho, Colombia, Ecuador, Argentina, Georgia, Uruguay, Cuba

    Meeting symbol/code: CL 116 9

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    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 1980
    Benin, Nigeria, Zambia, Mali, Ghana, Congo, Sierra Leone, Niger, Colombia, Kenya, Liberia, Japan, Cameroon, Chad, Senegal, Sudan, Togo, Côte d'Ivoire, Africa

    Policy makers as well as scientists have started to acquire an honest appreciation of the possibilities of reducing the wastage of materials which could be profitably utilized for improving or maintaining soil productivity. In addition, the great opportunities offered by making more efficient use of the potentials of biological nitrogen fixation in farming systems are now fully recognized. A number of recommendations and suggested guidelines were made by the various Working Groups during the two-week Workshop.

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    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2004
    United States of America, Afghanistan, Indonesia, Australia, United Kingdom, Ghana, Iceland, Gabon, Pakistan, Kenya, Japan, South Africa, Hungary, Italy, Tanzania, Suriname, Kuwait, Uganda, Brazil, Canada

    This publication explores various aspects of the interface between water rights and land tenure. It is intended to synthetize and assess current learning on this topic, to define salient issues and to propose fruitful approaches for further investigation.

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    Journal Articles & Books
    May, 2016
    Burkina Faso, Nigeria, United States of America, Rwanda, Zambia, Mali, Burundi, Namibia, Ghana, South Sudan, Malawi, Niger, Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Italy, Tanzania, Botswana, Netherlands, Senegal, Chad, Norway, Africa, Southern Africa

    The focus of this review has been on both documenting the general resilience of many fish resources to climatic variability and its underestimation in livelihood importance, including in protracted crisis situations, but also on enhancing the potential supply of fish from dryland areas by better use of the available water bodies, and in particular from small reservoirs.

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