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Assessment and planning of the Toronto City Region Food System - Synthesis report

Journal Articles & Books
November, 2018
Nepal, United States of America, Jamaica, Canada, Mexico, Netherlands
Urban Tenure
Land & Food Security
land-use planning
urban planning
food security
assessment
urban areas
More than 80 percent Canadians live in cities with almost one-quarter of country’s total population living in the Greater Golden Horseshoe (GGH) area. The GGH stretches in a curve around the western side of Lake Ontario with the City of Toronto occupying the northern side of the horseshoe. The GGH is an area of high potential food production as well as rapid population growth creating a mix of difficult to reconcile, opposing demands. For example, the need for housing and residential infrastructure conflicts directly with the need to preserve prime agricultural lands.
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Jamaica and FAO

Institutional & promotional materials
June, 2018
Bahamas, Jamaica, Chile, Belize
Land & Food Security
natural resources management
food security
sustainable development
Jamaica joined FAO in 1963. In 1978, the Organization established a representation in Jamaica which today also coversthe Bahamas and Belize. Over the years, FAO has partnered with Jamaica to achieve sustainable agricultural and ruraldevelopment, mainly through the Organization’s Technical Cooperation Programme (TCP). Interventions have ranged frompolicy formulation to technical agricultural development and emergency assistance projects.
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Estimación de la Degradación de Bosques de Colombia a través de un Análisis de Fragmentación

Journal Articles & Books
May, 2018
Madagascar, Congo, Jamaica, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, United States of America, Indonesia, Italy, Montenegro, Netherlands
Forest Tenure
Land Degradation & Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land degradation
forest land
sustainable land management
La dificultad de definir y cuantificar la degradación de bosques es una limitación importante para que la mayoría de los países en desarrollo incluyan compromisos de reducción de emisiones por degradación en el contexto del enfoque de Reducción de Emisiones por Deforestación y Degradación de Bosques (REDD+), que abarca además, el aumento de las Reservas de Carbono, la conservación de Bosques y el Manejo Sostenible de los estos ecosisetemas.
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Valoración de los derechos de tenencia de la tierra

Journal Articles & Books
February, 2019
Rwanda, Liberia, Mozambique, South Africa, Uganda, China, Namibia, Botswana, Australia, Jamaica, Ghana, India, Guinea, Colombia, Papua New Guinea, Mongolia
land valuation
land rights
land tenure
El Estado y el sector privado requieren la valoración de los derechos de tenencia por una amplia gama de motivos, a menudo fundamentando y sentando las bases de las transacciones, la tributación, la compensación y la contabilidad. Si bien el valor y el proceso de valoración tienen repercusiones jurídicas y económicas directas en nuestra vida cotidiana, suelen estar envueltos en misterio y no se los comprende con claridad.
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The Bahamas and FAO

Institutional & promotional materials
July, 2018
Bahamas, Jamaica
Land & Food Security
natural resources management
food security
sustainable development
The Bahamas became an FAO member state in 1975. Cooperation has focused on strategic development and increased competitiveness of the country’s agriculture and fisheries sector, with FAO interventions comprising policy and legislative support, technical development projects and rehabilitation and emergency assistance. As a flat and small island developing state (SIDS), the Bahamas is very vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, which makes resilience building an important element of cooperation today.
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Saint Lucia and FAO

Institutional & promotional materials
December, 2016
Dominica, Jamaica, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, Barbados, Brazil
Land & Food Security
natural resources management
food security
sustainable development
Saint Lucia and FAO have partnered since the country joined the organization in 1979. Assistance has been geared towards sustainable agricultural development and food and nutrition security, with a parallel focus on natural resource management. Ranging from national policy support to community-level projects, interventions seek to improve agricultural productivity and local food production as well as income-earning opportunities for rural communities. Other key features of cooperation are disaster risk management and adaptation to climate change.
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Valuing Land Tenure Rights

Journal Articles & Books
March, 2019
Mozambique, Liberia, Botswana, United States of America, Philippines, Poland, Zimbabwe, China, Namibia, Netherlands, Australia, Jamaica, Ireland, Canada, New Zealand, India, United Kingdom, Mongolia, Colombia, Papua New Guinea, Ghana
land valuation
land rights
land tenure
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has developed a series of Technical Guides to elaborate and provide more detailed guidance on thematic areas contained within the Guidelines. As part of this series, this Technical Guide covers the issues associated with the identification and valuation of tenure rights for different purposes, and provides guidance on how to ensure that valuations are undertaken in a fair, reliable and transparent manner that comply with internati onal norms.
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Natural Resources Management and the Environment in Small Island Developing States (SIDS)

Reports & Research
December, 2018
Fiji, Mauritius, Dominican Republic, Samoa, Haiti, Vanuatu, Jamaica, Solomon Islands, Guyana, Barbados, Cape Verde
natural resources management
This policy paper focuses on the environmental challenges of sustainable development issues with particular attention to natural resource management, environment and climate change in the food and agriculture sector (including crops, livestock, fisheries and forestry). FAO’s agriculture, fisheries, forestry and technical assistance programmes provide considerable resources to assist member countries promote conservation, sustainable use and management of natural resources and to reduce the risks associated with climate extremes as well as resilience building.
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Report of the Twenty-Third session of the Committee on Forestry

Reports & Research
December, 2016
France, Slovakia, Belgium, Peru, Jamaica, Canada, Iran, Costa Rica, Thailand, Switzerland, Republic of Korea, Japan, South Africa, Italy, Tanzania, Brazil, Russia, China, Mexico, Norway, Lebanon
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
sustainable land management
forest land
sustainable development
Meeting Name: FAO Committee on Forestry
Meeting symbol/code: COFO 2016/REP
Session: Sess. 23
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Production durable, intensification et diversification de l'agriculture, de la foresterie et des pêches dans les petits états insulaires en développement

Reports & Research
December, 1999
Dominica, Fiji, Mauritius, Dominican Republic, Samoa, Micronesia, Vanuatu, Tonga, Haiti, Cook Islands, Comoros, Guyana, Cape Verde, Trinidad and Tobago, Suriname, Maldives, Palau, Marshall Islands, Belize, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Grenada, Jamaica, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Cuba, Malta, Guinea, Solomon Islands, Seychelles, Kiribati, Tuvalu, Nauru, Saint Lucia, Sao Tome and Principe, Bahamas, Bahrain, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Papua New Guinea, Niue, Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania
land use
Meeting symbol/code: SIDS 99 Inf.-Sum 4