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    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2008
    Fiji, Bangladesh, Honduras, United States of America, China, Australia, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Colombia, Thailand, Switzerland, Japan, South Africa, Singapore, Malaysia, Panama, India, Mexico, Papua New Guinea

    The availability and quality of clean water in many regions of the world is more and more threatened by overuse, misuse and pollution. In this context, the relationship between forests and water must be accorded high priority. Forested catchments supply a high proportion of the water for domestic, agricultural, industrial and ecological needs in both upstream and downstream areas. A key challenge faced by land, forest and water managers is to maximize the benefits that forests provide without detriment to water resources and ecosystem function.

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    Reports & Research
    December, 2005
    United States of America, Japan, Italy, Jamaica, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil, Suriname, Americas

    The preliminary conclusions put forward in this Rural Sector Note may be used as basis for further discussions between the Government and the World Bank to ascertain the mutual interest in any programme or project follow up.

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    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2004
    Rwanda, Egypt, Japan, Uganda, Burundi, Italy, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Kenya, Africa

    This report describes the project of strengthening the ability of the governments of the Nile Basin states to take informed decisions with regard to water resources policy and management in the Nile Basin. This objective to be achieved through the development of information products that integrate technical water resources and water use data with other relevant data, including in particular demographic, socio-economic and environmental data.

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    Reports & Research
    December, 1999
    Angola, Burkina Faso, Estonia, Bangladesh, Austria, Iraq, El Salvador, Chile, Guatemala, China, Australia, Bolivia, Ghana, Venezuela, Guinea, Costa Rica, Eritrea, Lesotho, Colombia, Ecuador, Argentina, Georgia, Uruguay, Cuba

    Meeting symbol/code: CL 116 9

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    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 1980
    Benin, Nigeria, Zambia, Mali, Ghana, Congo, Sierra Leone, Niger, Colombia, Kenya, Liberia, Japan, Cameroon, Chad, Senegal, Sudan, Togo, Côte d'Ivoire, Africa

    Policy makers as well as scientists have started to acquire an honest appreciation of the possibilities of reducing the wastage of materials which could be profitably utilized for improving or maintaining soil productivity. In addition, the great opportunities offered by making more efficient use of the potentials of biological nitrogen fixation in farming systems are now fully recognized. A number of recommendations and suggested guidelines were made by the various Working Groups during the two-week Workshop.

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    Reports & Research
    December, 2011
    Africa, Senegal, Asia, China, Spain

    This month, we invite you to participate in the e-consultation on Voluntary Guidelines on Responsible governance of tenure of land and other natural resources. Following a lengthy regional consultation process, additional input is being requested prior to the drafting of the Zero Draft Guidelines. FAO Headquarters marked World Water Day 2011, examining the urgent need for safe water supplies for the world’s rapidly growing urban populations.

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    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2010
    Bangladesh, Switzerland, United States of America, China, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Bulgaria, Peru, Colombia, Thailand, Mozambique, Japan, Madagascar, Italy, Tanzania, Cambodia, India, Brazil, Asia

    A potent argument for bioenergy development lies in the ability of the sector to unlock agricultural potential by bringing in much needed investments to raise agricultural productivity to spur food security and poverty reduction. This document presents the BEFS Analytical Framework (AF) developed to test this argument. Agriculture lies at the heart of the BEFS AF and allows governments to consider viable pro-poor strategies for bioenergy development.

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    Journal Articles & Books
    February, 2016
    France, United States of America, Belize, Mali, China, Indonesia, Australia, Canada, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Niger, Thailand, New Zealand, Jordan, Japan, South Africa, Singapore, Spain, Ecuador, Tunisia, India

    The purpose of this paper is examine the notion of tenure in connection with water resources and to explore whether the concept of water tenure has the potential to make a useful contribution towards resolving the world’s water resources challenges. It seeks to provide answers to the following questions: (a) What is water tenure? (b) Does water tenure really exist or is water simply too different from other natural resources? (c) Could the concept of water tenure be useful in terms of the development of natural resources policies and practices?

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    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 1999
    France, United States of America, Iraq, Chile, China, Sri Lanka, Morocco, Romania, Iran, Pakistan, Thailand, Nepal, Jordan, Cyprus, Philippines, Malaysia, Mexico, India, Turkey, Brazil, Asia

    The central message which emerges from this meeting was that modernization is above all an issue of human-ware. It is quite noteworthy to see that, although most participants to the meeting were engineers, almost every paper and almost all questions and points of discussion dealt with institutional, development and sociological issues and were not focussed on techniques. The issue of human-ware can be further expanded into complementary directions.

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