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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 1966Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Central America, South America
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2008Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Ecuador, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Honduras, India, Iran, Kenya, Laos, Mali, Mozambique, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Peru, South Africa, Sudan, Thailand, Togo, Uganda, Vietnam, Zimbabwe, Western Africa, Middle Africa, Africa, Asia, Central America, South America, Western Asia, Southern Asia, South-Eastern Asia, Southern Africa
This reports summarizes and synthesizes activities and achievements of the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF) through the end of 2007. The CPWF is an intiative of the CGIAR designed to take on the global challenge of water scarcity and food security.
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Library ResourceJuly, 2009Bolivia, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, South America
This project is about showing whether BSM are effective. It seeks to quantify the consequences of BSM-driven changes in land and water management for livelihoods in upstream rural communities, and for water supplies for downstream water consumers. It will develop methods to anticipate ex ante the likely consequences of introducing BSM as well as monitoring and measuring these consequences ex post.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 1998Colombia, Philippines, Madagascar, Italy, Indonesia, Bolivia, Niger, Cameroon, Africa, Americas
In December 1997, FAO hosted a workshop, Pluralism and Sustainable Forestry and Rural Development. to exchange information and experiences and to explore mechanisms, methods and fore for optimizing cooperation among the different groups concerned with the management of forest resources. The workshop was attended by 35 participants representing different organizations (and organizational types, geographic regions and disciplines). The articles in this issue of Unasylva are adaptations of papers presented at that workshop.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2012Belize, Burundi, Zimbabwe, Grenada, Jamaica, Bolivia, Cuba, Colombia, Thailand, Rwanda, Philippines, Lesotho, Uganda, Haiti, Italy, Togo
FAO-Adapt consolidates FAO’s multidisciplinary expertise on climate change adaptation. Through this Organization-wide framework, FAO provides countries with best practices, key principles and priority themes on which member nations can focus adaptation efforts in agriculture and food security. Since launching FAO-Adapt in June 2011, the Organization has: developed and implemented new, adaptation-focused projects and programmes; and enhanced FAO’s own capacity to deliver adaptation support to member countries.
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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsJune, 2015Bolivia, Colombia, Peru
Para continuar aportando al diálogo sobre el estado actual de la Agricultura familiar, difundimos en esta oportunidad el presente artículo, que mereció una mención entre los resultados del Concurso Alimentos y pensamientos, siempre en agenda, en la versión del año pasado. El autor nos propone una mirada actual al tema a partir de la construcción de su concepto, de algunos hechos de escala internacional y de experiencias de políticas públicas en Brasil que están contribuyendo a reinstalarlo, definitivamente, en las agendas del momento. -
Library ResourceReports & ResearchJuly, 2016Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chile, Guatemala, Ecuador, Bolivia, Argentina, Costa Rica, Paraguay, Colombia, Caribbean, South America
FAO busca promover prácticas y políticas que apoyen la integración de los sectores agrícolas y productivos (cultivos, ganadería, silvicultura y pesca), que aseguren el manejo responsable y la disponibilidad de recursos naturales a largo plazo. Para ello orienta sus esfuerzos en mejorar y estandarizar las actividades productivas, pues reconoce la necesidad de producir alimentos inocuos e implementar buenas prácticas agrícolas, como son el manejo integrado de plagas y enfermedades, manejo de cosecha y postcosecha, la innovación tecnológica y la conservación de la biodiversidad.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2015Chile, Peru, Uruguay, Ecuador, Bolivia, Argentina, Venezuela, Paraguay, Colombia, Brazil, Americas
Considerando la necesidad de implementar acciones que promuevan el manejo sostenible del suelo, principalmente en contextos donde la degradación constituye una amenaza que impacta negativamente a comunidades rurales, la FAO a través del Secretariado de la Alianza Mundial por el Suelo (AMS) estableció la Alianza Latinoamericana por el Suelo en el año 2012 en el marco del Congreso Latinoamericano de Suelos.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchMay, 2010Bolivia, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Peru, South America
The Basin Leader leads this project team which is responsible for coherence of the overall BDC research program by ensuring BDC research remains problem- opportunity- and impact-focused. For the duration of the project, the Basin Leader will work for the CPWF, through a secondment arrangement to be negotiated with CONDESAN. The Basin Leader will report to both the CPWF Research and Innovation & Impact Directors, and will be supervised by the appropriate CPWF Director among them
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2006United States of America, Chile, Peru, Italy, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Argentina, Venezuela, Uruguay, Americas
To address the needs of individual regions, such as LAC, more detailed regional and sub regional strategies are needed to ensure that forestry contributes fully to the challenges of poverty, inequity, environmental degradation and sustainable development. This report presents such a strategy for four Andean Countries of South America, that is, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. Venezuela could not be included because of time constraints, and the difficulties of obtaining a suitable consultant to carry out the field work.
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