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  1. Library Resource
    Final evaluation Maghreb
    Reports & Research
    July, 2020
    Morocco, Tunisia, Mauritania

    The Maghreb's oases systems provide a major contribution to the region's food security, economy and natural resources. Despite this potential, oasis ecosystems are threatened by a range of complex factors related to the expansion of agricultural land and increasing scarcity of water resources. The project, implemented by FAO in Tunisia, Morocco and Mauritania from May 2016 to December 2019, brought together key stakeholders to address the lack of available information on the status of oases and to advocate on factual bases shared by all stakeholders and verifiable in the field.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2009
    Angola, Liechtenstein, Bangladesh, United States of America, Congo, Comoros, Cameroon, Uzbekistan, Switzerland, Kenya, Zambia, Denmark, Rwanda, Philippines, Kyrgyzstan, Italy, Brazil, Tunisia, Argentina, Sudan, Papua New Guinea, Czech Republic

    Forests, trees and woodlands cover almost one-third of the Earth’s land area. They are a crucial source of food and income for more than a billion people around the globe. They provide a variety of wood and non-wood products and vital ecosystem services – preventing erosion from wind and water, preserving water quality, shading crops and livestock, absorbing carbon which contributes to countering climate change, and providing habitat for many species of plants and animals, thus helping to conserve the planet’s biological diversity.

  3. Library Resource
    Institutional & promotional materials
    April, 2019

    La boîte à outils de LRP est une source en ligne librement accessible pour un éventail de parties prenantes et fournit des informations techniques sur les outils et les approches pour aider les decideurs politiques à différents niveaux pour surmonter les obstacles au niveau politique et faciliter la mise en place de solutions viables sur le terrain.

  4. Library Resource
    Institutional & promotional materials
    October, 2018

    The Land Resources Planning (LRP) is a free accessible online “global knowledge hub” for a range of stakeholders and provides technical information on tools and approaches to assist decision makers at different levels to tackle obstacles at policy level and to facilitate the implementation of viable solutions on the ground.

  5. Library Resource
    Institutional & promotional materials
    August, 2018
    Italy

    The forest-water nexus is crucial for ensuring water and food security, as well as for achieving sustainable development objectives. Only by recognising the interlinkages of forests and water, and how the management of these resources influences productive multi-functional landscapes can appropriate long-term benefits from landscape planning and management be actualized. And while it is important that generalized assumptions about the forest-water nexus are not widely applied due to their complex and context specific nature, the knowledge is available to lend guidance.

  6. Library Resource
    Institutional & promotional materials
    April, 2018
    Burkina Faso

    Fact sheet on activities of Action Against Desertification in Burkina Faso. Action Against Desertification is an initiative of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) in support of the Great Green Wall initiative and UNCCD national action programmes to combat desertification, implemented by FAO and partners with funding of the European Union.

  7. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2018
    Luxembourg, Madagascar

    Le cadre juridique est le moyen par lequel s’effectue la transposition des exigences internationales découlant de la Convention-cadre des Nations Unies sur les changements climatiques (CCNUCC) en obligations concrètes et précises pour les pays forestiers, et ce, en fonction de leur situation propre.

  8. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2018
    Luxembourg, Madagascar, United States of America

    L’initiative de Réduction des émissions causées par le déboisement et la dégradation des forêts dans les pays en développement; et rôle de la conservation, de la gestion durable des forêts et du renforcement des stocks de carbone forestiers dans les pays en développement (REDD+) vise à inciter les pays boisés en développement à protéger leurs ressources forestières; elle contribuera ainsi à la lutte mondiale contre les changements climatiques et au développement économique et social durable.

  9. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    May, 2014

    Meeting Name: Committee on Forestry
    Meeting symbol/code: COFO/2014/6.2

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