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A review of the current state of bioenergy development in G8 + 5 countries

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2007
France, Estonia, United States of America, Sweden, Germany, China, Australia, Latvia, Canada, Colombia, Lithuania, South Africa, Malaysia, Italy, Netherlands, India, Mexico, Brazil
natural resources management
Bioenergy sits at the intersection of three of the world’s great challenges - energy security, climate change, and poverty reduction - and has received an enormous amount of attention in the past few years. Joint work on these issues is vital considering that together, the G8 +5 Countries account for about 55 percent of the world’s population, 70+ percent of global GDP, and about 72 percent of world energy-related and industry CO2 emissions (excluding deforestation). Bioenergy statistics are inadequate and not up to date.
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Guidelines and computer programs for the planning and design of land drainage systems

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2007
Egypt, United States of America, Spain, Iraq, Malaysia, Uzbekistan, United Kingdom, Peru, Iran, Argentina, India, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Mexico, Netherlands
environment
water management
Drainage of agricultural land is one of the most critical water management tools for the sustainability of productive cropping systems, as frequently this sustainability is extremely dependent on the control of waterlogging and soil salinization in the rootzone of most crops. On some agricultural lands, the natural drainage is sufficient to maintain high productivity. However, many others require improvements in surface and subsurface drainage in order to optimize land productivity, while maintaining the quality of soil resources.
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La nueva generación de programas y proyectos de gestión de cuencas hidrográficas

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2007
Germany, France, Bangladesh, Honduras, United States of America, Nepal, Israel, Burundi, Zimbabwe, China, Guatemala, Indonesia, Jamaica, Bolivia, Ghana, Costa Rica, Colombia, Kenya, Rwanda, Italy, Vietnam, Myanmar, Ecuador, India, Bhutan, Cuba, Europe, Africa, Americas, Asia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
customary law
capacity development
customary tenure
land tenure
land rights
Indigenous Peoples
land degradation
land tenure systems
indigenous people's tenure
Con ocasión del Año Internacional de las Montañas (2002), la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Agricultura y la Alimentación (FAO) y sus asociados emprendieron una sistematización mundial en gran escala de la situación actual y futuras tendencias de la gestión integrada y participativa de las cuencas hidrográficas. Los objetivos generales eran promover el intercambio y la difusión de experiencias de gestión de cuencas de 1990 a 2000, y determinar un paradigma para una nueva generación de programas y proyectos de gestión de cuencas.
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Modernizing irrigation management - the MASSCOTE approach

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2007
France, United States of America, Egypt, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, United Kingdom, Pakistan, Thailand, Nepal, Morocco, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, India, Sudan, Vietnam
environment
agricultural land management
water management
The performance of many canal irrigation delivery systems is unsatisfactory in terms of: (i) water resources management; (ii) service to irrigated agriculture; and (iii) costeffectiveness of infrastructure management. In recent years, participatory approaches and management transfer reforms have been promoted as part of the solution for more cost-effective and sustainable irrigation services. Large agency-managed systems have been turned over partially or completely to various types of management bodies. However, the results have usually been disappointing.
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Negotiation and mediation techniques for natural resource management

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2007
Angola, Nepal, United States of America, Zambia, South Africa, Gambia, Mali, Sweden, Zimbabwe, Italy, Botswana, Germany, Namibia
natural resources management
This publication is part of a series of training materials on natural resources conflict management developed by FAOs Livelihood Support Programme. It supports the discussions presented in Negotiation and mediation techniques for natural resource management (2005) a conceptual guide by sharing recent, real-life experiences of Africans who have used the processes and principles of consensual negotiation and mediation to address natural resource conflicts.
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Options and recommendations for a global remote sensing survey of forests

Reports & Research
December, 2007
United States of America, Chile, Italy, Indonesia, Canada, Gabon, Cameroon, Brazil
Forest Tenure
forestry
natural resources management
FAO has been coordinating global forest resources assessments every five to ten years since 1946 (FAO, 2006), with the objective to provide a periodic global and uniform picture of existing forests, derived trends and statistics. Especially FAO’s periodically reported deforestation rates enjoy a high degree of public attention and are widely cited in literature.
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Proceedings of the international forum on water resources management and irrigation modernization in Shanxi Province, China

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2007
France, Bangladesh, United States of America, China, Indonesia, Australia, Iran, Republic of Korea, Thailand, Pakistan, Philippines, Turkey, Japan, Tunisia, India, Mexico, Mongolia, Asia
natural resources management
water management
Water is essential for life and plays a key role in achieving the Millennium Development Goals. As the population continues to grow and the economy develops, competition for water uses between different users has intensified and induced excessive strain on the environment. Climate change and water pollution further aggravate the situation. Today, 2.8 billion people are affected by some form of water scarcity, and the number of regions affected by water shortages is on the rise.
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Report on follow-up on actions on sea-turtles

Reports & Research
December, 2007
Seychelles, Tunisia, United States of America, Japan, South Africa, Madagascar, Italy, Malta, Guinea, New Zealand
natural resources management
Meeting symbol/code: COFI/2007/Inf.11
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Secuestro de carbono en tierras áridas

Reports & Research
December, 2007
Nigeria, United States of America, Mali, China, Australia, Ethiopia, Niger, Kenya, Yemen, Syrian Arab Republic, Brazil, Argentina, India, Senegal, Sudan, Norway, Asia, Africa, Americas
Land, Climate Change & Environment
farming systems
land degradation
Este informe está dirigido a revisar y resumir la información existente sobre el secuestro de carbono, con el fin de analizar como los recursos disponibles y los programas específicos se pueden implementar en las tierras áridas que constituyen las regiones con mayor degradación del suelo en el mundo.
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The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture - 2006 (SOFIA)

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2007
Egypt, Bangladesh, United States of America, Chile, Germany, Peru, Indonesia, Norway, Canada, Republic of Korea, Thailand, Italy, Japan, Uganda, Myanmar, Tanzania, Netherlands, India, Russia, China, Brazil, Cambodia
fisheries
land governance
land tenure
Several decades ago, the efforts of public administrations were concentrated on developing fisheries and aquaculture and ensuring growth in production and consumption. Then, in the 1980s, as many resources became fully or overexploited, the attention of policy-makers began to focus instead on fisheries management, in addition to development of aquaculture. Aquaculture continues to expand, while marine capture fisheries – when summed together worldwide – seem to have reached a ceiling.