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    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2009
    Bangladesh, Switzerland, United States of America, China, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Australia, Ethiopia, Niger, Uruguay, Thailand, Japan, Italy, Netherlands, Tunisia, India

    畜牧部门正在快速地转变,以适应全球经济的 变化和不断演变的社会预期。人们希望畜牧部门为不 断增长的城市人口提供安全充足的食物和纤维,为十 亿多贫困生产者和销售者提供生计,并且提供有关粮 食安全、环境可持续性和动物源性疾病的全球公共产 品。然而,畜牧部门转变速度之快导致其增长失衡。 这一点反映在畜牧部门内部在生产规模、强度和效率 方面出现了日益扩大的两级分化,还反映在无法预料 的社会、营养、动物卫生和环境方面的影响。畜牧部 门的转变及其转变速度给生计、人类和动物卫生以及 环境造成了系统性风险。为了应对二十一世纪的挑战 和制约,畜牧部门需要适当的制度、研究、发展干预 和治理,这些均应反映出该部门内的多样性及其所承 载的多重需求。

  2. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2009
    Asia

    Most of the large rice irrigation systems in Southeast Asia have been designed for rice irrigation under a supply-driven mode. Despite their huge contribution to agricultural production, there is a general consensus that these large rice irrigation systems have not lived up to expectations because of a legacy of poor institutional arrangements and system design, degraded infrastructure, poor management and stagnation in the face of rapid transformations of agriculture and pressures on their water supply.

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    Reports & Research
    December, 2009
    Namibia, Burkina Faso, Asia, China, Mongolia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Jordan, Romania, Finland, Germany, Netherlands

    FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations), Germany, IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development), Finland, GTZ (Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit), UN-Habitat, World Bank and UNDP, and IPC (International NGO/CSO Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty), Food First International Action Network (FIAN), ILC (International Land Coalition), FIG (International Federation of Surveyors) and other development partners are working together with countries to prepare Voluntary Guidelines that will provide practical guidance to states, civil society, the private se

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2009
    Madagascar, Philippines, Africa

    Les achats de terres agricoles par des étrangers, en Afrique et ailleurs, sont devenus un motif d’inquiétude. De nombreux observateurs considèrent qu’ils équivalent à une forme moderne de colonialisme et qu’ils menacent la sécurité alimentaire des populations pauvres. Cependant, les investissements pourraient avoir des conséquences positives si les objectifs des acheteurs de terres et les besoins en matière d’investissements des pays en développement étaient réconciliés.

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    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2009
    Bangladesh, United States of America, China, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Australia, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Niger, Uruguay, Thailand, Japan, Italy, Netherlands, Tunisia, India

    Сектор животноводства быстро трансформируется в ответ на перемены в мировой экономике и изменения в ожиданиях со стороны общества. Общество ожидает от животноводства, что оно обеспечит растущее городское население достаточным количеством безопасного продовольствия и волокон и останется источником средств к существованию для более чем миллиарда малоимущих производителей и торговцев, а также предоставит глобальные общес твенные б л а га , с в язанные с продовольственной безопасностью, экологической устойчивостью и борьбой с зоонозными заболеваниями.

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2009
    Nepal, Egypt, Bangladesh, Switzerland, Philippines, Israel, Vietnam, Japan, Jordan, China, Myanmar, India, Thailand, Kenya, Asia

    A quarterly news bulletin dedicated to the exchange of information relating to wildlife and national resources management for the Asia-Pacific region.

  7. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2009
    Qatar, Egypt, Iran, United States of America, Israel, Azerbaijan, Netherlands, Malta, United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Cyprus, Yemen, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Oman, Syrian Arab Republic, Kuwait, Iraq, Bahrain, Georgia, Armenia, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Asia

    The AQUASTAT Programme was initiated with a view to presenting a comprehensive picture of water resources and irrigation in the countries of Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean and providing systematic, up-to-date and reliable information on water for agriculture and rural development. This report presents the results of the most recent survey carried out in the 18 countries of the Middle East region, and it analyses the changes that have occurred in the ten years since the first survey.

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    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2009
    Syrian Arab Republic, Egypt, Jordan, Italy, Asia

    This report presents the results from a regional training workshop on MASSCOTE which was held at Aleppo, Syria in 2009. A total of twenty Irrigation and Agriculture engineers from Egypt, Jordan, and Syria participated in the training workshop focusing on MASSCOTE application in Mounshaat-Al-Asad scheme in Aleppo Governorate.

  9. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2009
    Nepal, Switzerland, United States of America, Vietnam, Sweden, China, Myanmar, Indonesia, Australia, Cambodia, India, Russia, Mexico, Thailand, Asia

    This paper examines the drivers of deforestation and the loss of forest services, and the various mechanisms that exist to protect forests in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). In most cases policy mechanisms play a greater role in forest protection than payment for environmental services (PES) which has yet to develop in the subregion. Scenarios presented suggest that higher income countries will have much greater scope in protecting forest environmental services that low income countries.

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    Reports & Research
    December, 2009
    Nigeria, United States of America, Germany, Peru, Guatemala, Indonesia, Canada, Venezuela, Philippines, Nicaragua, Italy, Ecuador, Brazil, Argentina, Russia, Paraguay, Mexico, Norway, Cambodia

    This paper focuses on the analysis of the right to food from an indigenous peoples’ perspective and addresses the main issues of concern to indigenous peoples that crosscut the right to food. Furthermore, it analyses how right to food is relevant to indigenous peoples and how the implementation of the right to food can benefit them.

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