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Agricultural Drainage Water Management in Arid and Semi-arid Areas

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2002
Egypt, Turkmenistan, United States of America, Mauritania, Australia, Iran, Kuwait, Pakistan, Jordan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Italy, Syrian Arab Republic, Netherlands, India, Kazakhstan, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Asia, Africa, Americas
agricultural land management
water management
This publication deals with the underlying concepts relating to drainage water management. It first discusses the adequate identification and definition of the problem for the selection and application of a combination of management options. It then presents technical considerations and details on the four groups of drainage management options. The second part of the publication contains the summaries of the case studies from the United States of America, Central Asia, Egypt, India and Pakistan.
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AGRICULTURAL LAND VALUES AND URBAN GROWTH; Proceedings of the Fifth Joint Conference on Agriculture, Food, and the Environment, June 17-18, 1996, Padova, Italy

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 1996
Italy
land economics
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Agriculture biologique en Europe

Journal Articles & Books
December, 1990
France, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Finland, Norway, Austria, Europe
land policies
research
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Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition Proceedings of the FAO International Symposium. 18-19 September 2014, Rome, Italy

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2015
Kenya, Burkina Faso, Switzerland, Zimbabwe, Italy, Indonesia, Cuba, France, Brazil
natural resources management
water management
land management
AGROECOLOGY is the science of applying ecological concepts and principles to the design and management of sustainable food systems. It focuses on the interactions between plants, animals, humans and the environment. Agroecological practices work in harmony with these interactions, applying innovative solutions that harness and conserve biodiversity. Agroecology is practised in all corners of the world, with the traditional and local knowledge of family farmers at its core.
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Agroforestry creates carbon sinks whilst enhancing the environment in agricultural landscapes in Europe

Land Use Policy Volume 83

Peer-reviewed publication
April, 2019
Denmark, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, United States of America, Europe
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
environment
farmland
forestry
land use
research
sustainable land management
Agroforestry, relative to conventional agriculture, contributes significantly to carbon sequestration, increases a range of regulating ecosystem services, and enhances biodiversity. Using a transdisciplinary approach, we combined scientific and technical knowledge to evaluate nine environmental pressures in terms of ecosystem services in European farmland and assessed the carbon storage potential of suitable agroforestry systems, proposed by regional experts.
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Aiuto alla decisione nei processi di generazione e attuazione delle politiche pubbliche: un approccio multicriteri per la valutazione della resilienza territoriale

Peer-reviewed publication
December, 2016
Italy
cadastres
land cover mapping
Un processo di aiuto alla decisione dovrebbe essere il risultato dell’interazione tra analisti, decisori e attori. A volte, quando la situazione problematica è nuova e non esiste ancora un sistema
decisionale e attoriale formalizzato, un intervento di aiuto alla decisione è possibile se si concentra sulla fase di identificazione e strutturazione degli elementi di complessità del processo di decisione. In altre situazioni l’aiuto alla decisione può essere richiesto e motivato da una critica ai processi di generazione e
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ALBANIAN IMMOVABLE PROPERTY REGISTRATION SYSTEM: REVIEW OF LEGISLATION

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 1997
Slovenia, North Macedonia, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Albania, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, Austria, Czech Republic, Netherlands
The registration system of immovable property in Albania was chosen for four basic reasons: (1) it protects the right of immovable property owners by providing strong and reliable evidence about ownership and other interests in immovable properties; (2) it is simple and inexpensive to administer and maintain; (3) it provides the public with easily accessible information which they need to buy and sell, mortgage, and rent immovable property, thereby providing the basis for a market-oriented economy; and, (4) it permits the building of a Geographical Information System with property informati
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Alimentation, nutrition et agriculture

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2000
Morocco, United States of America, Philippines, Japan, Germany, China, Italy, United Kingdom, Canada, Iran, Niger
land use
agriculture
research
A broad range of actions that can aid in the efforts to end hunger are described in this issue of Food, Nutrition and Agriculture. Improving the methods and tools to work drectly with food-insecure households is critical. For decades, growth monitoring has been practised by community health workers in many developing countries. Authors show how techniques for assessing children's growth status can be made more effective.
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Alimentation, nutrition et agriculture

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2001
India, Guatemala, Congo, Italy
Urban Tenure
urbanization
land use
urban areas
peri-urban agriculture
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.
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An assessment of policies, institutions and regulations for water harvesting, solar energy, and groundwater in Jordan

Journal Articles & Books
February, 2018
Jordan, Sweden, Greece, United States of America, Italy
natural resources management
water management
sustainable development
This report constitutes part of the project GCP/JOR/018/SWI: “Reduce vulnerability in Jordanin the context of water scarcity and increasing food/energy demand” project, funded by theSwiss Agency for Development and Corporation (SDC).The objective of this report is to address project output 4: “Prepared appropriate long-termpolicy, regulatory and institutional frameworks to facilitate the adoption and scale-up of thethree-pronged approach and integrate it within national food-water-energy related p