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  1. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2001
    Algeria, Sudan, Egypt, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Australia, Eswatini, United Kingdom, Djibouti, Sierra Leone, Central African Republic, Morocco, South Africa, Lesotho, Italy, Tanzania, Botswana, Netherlands, Tunisia, Argentina, Chad
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    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2001
    India, Guatemala, Congo, Italy

    In every region of the world, landscapes are being transformed. Rural people are migrating to urban centres in search of economic and social opportunities while city dwellers are becoming interested in producing their own food and moving outside the centres to be able to appreciate nature. These changes in lifestyles have implications for the food system and nutritional status of populations.

  3. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2001
    United States of America, Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Italy, Australia, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Finland, Norway, Poland

    The main goal of biomanipulation by fish reduction is not a change in the fish community but a change in the aquatic ecosystem. Fish reduction is a method to push the system in another state, usually a shift from algae domination to macrophyte domination. Intensive fish removal is done by one of the following methods: seining (the Netherlands, Germany, UK), trawling (Sweden, Finland), use of rotenone (Norway, USA, Poland) and stocking of piscivorous fish (USA, Germany). If circumstances allow it (reservoir, ponds) draining is combined with seining (the Netherlands, UK, Poland).

  4. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2001
    Tanzania, Kenya, Bolivia, Malawi, Brazil, Italy, Africa

    The purpose of this publication is to show how conservation agriculture can increase crop production while reducing erosion and reversing soil fertility decline, improving rural livelihoods and restoring the environment in developing countries. Soil organic matter and biological activity in the rooting zone, stimulated by continual additions of fresh organic material (crop residues and cover crops) are the basis of conservation agriculture, as described in the first chapter.

  5. Library Resource
    National Policies
    January, 2002
    Italy

    The Environmental Action Strategy for Sustainable Development in Italy is a strategic instrument with a national coverage which sets out the goals to be attained for sustainable development and outlines related measures and actions to be undertaken. The national environmental action strategy ensures continuity to the European Union action, namely through the Sixth Environmental Action Plan, with the targets regarding social cohesion, full employment and environmental protection approved by the Council of Europe in Lisbon and Göthenburg.

  6. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2001
    Suriname, Italy

    Improved forest harvesting practices, with due consideration of the forest environment, are considered an important step towards sustainable forest management, particularly in tropical regions. The present case study has been carried out with one of the numerous small concession holders operating in the "Forest Belt" of Suriname. It could be demonstrated that even with a minimum effort in planning of harvesting operations, a significant advantage of meeting not only economic but also environmental objectives can be achieved.

  7. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2001
    Italy

    The international community is committed to eliminating poverty. International development targets to that end include a reduction by half in the number of people who are food insecure and a similar reduction in the proportion of people living in extreme poverty by the year 2015. The Forestry Department of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), with the support of the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), held an interagency Forum on the Role of Forestry in Poverty Alleviation in September 2001.

  8. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2001
    Burkina Faso, Bangladesh, Kenya, Sweden, China, Thailand, Nepal, Jordan, Philippines, Turkey, Italy, Syrian Arab Republic, Netherlands, Senegal, Paraguay, Uganda, Norway

    Conflicts over the appropriation, management and use of forest resources can pose significant constraints to sustainable forest management. Often, there are long-standing conflicts between governments, their agencies, the private sector and local communities, as well as among and within communities, over forest resources and their use and control.

  9. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2001
    France, Dominican Republic, Samoa, Germany, China, Indonesia, Australia, Burkina Faso, Italy, Thailand, Japan, Mexico, Malaysia, Myanmar, Tanzania, Netherlands, Turkey, Brazil

    The paper briefly reviews the mandates and main activities of some major governmental and non-governmental international organizations concerned with the management of forest genetic resources, and the role that such organizations play in this field. It is noted that national forest genetic programmes will continue to constitute the building blocks of regional and global programmes, but that these can be usefully complemented by harmonization of action at international level.

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