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  1. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2015
    Ethiopia, Madagascar, South Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia, Congo, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Argentina, Canada, United States of America, United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Australia

    This guide has been developed in response to concerns regarding large-scale land acquisitions and the need to increase investment in agriculture. The guide supports application of the <a href="www.fao.org/3/a-i2801e.pdf"><i> Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure for Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security</i></a> at the national level by providing technical guidance on how to safeguard tenure rights in the context of agricultural investments, including in land.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2011
    Africa, Algeria, Madagascar, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Mauritania, Honduras, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Northern America, Asia, Tajikistan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Europe, Albania, Germany

    Land Tenure Working Paper 19. The present paper is written as part of the overall Voluntary Guidelines consultation and development process and is a contribution to the subsequent preparation of the Gender Technical Guide. It contextualises and defines gender for the Voluntary Guidelines, discusses what governance of tenure means from a gender perspective and identifies and analyses key issues and themes. It then summarises recommendations relevant to gender before drawing some conclusions for the development process of the Voluntary Guidelines.

  3. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 1997
    Burkina Faso, India, Sweden, Niger, Madagascar, Brazil, Paraguay

    The management of natural forests in tropical dry zones is the topic addressed by this publication. The document has been long expected by many technicians involved in the management, conservation, and sustainable development of forests, on which depend many people of Africa, Asia and Latin America. In its first part, the document reviews relevant issues, nature and diversity of these forest formations and the biological, socio-economic and human factors that affect their present evolution.

  4. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2010
    Egypt, United States of America, Fiji, China, Indonesia, Australia, Canada, Guinea, Republic of Korea, Solomon Islands, Seychelles, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Madagascar, Italy, Tanzania, Ecuador, Papua New Guinea, Cuba, Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania

    Boom-and-bust cycles are commonplace in the exploitation history of sea cucumber fisheries but pandemic overfishing to critical levels now threatens the persistence of breeding stocks for future generations of coastal fishers. Resource managers must embrace an ecosystem approach to fisheries, in which biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services and the concerns of stakeholders are taken into account alongside of the productivity of stocks and the economic gains from fishing. This document is an abridged version of FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Technical Paper No.

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2013
    North Macedonia, Bangladesh, Honduras, Iraq, El Salvador, Chile, Zimbabwe, China, Indonesia, Australia, Bolivia, Ghana, Costa Rica, Colombia, Mozambique, Lesotho, Madagascar, Ecuador, Kuwait, Cuba, Argentina, India, Austria

    Meeting symbol/code: GSPPA-I/13/Report
    Session: Sess.1

  6. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 1997
    Honduras, Belize, El Salvador, Samoa, Zimbabwe, Guatemala, Vanuatu, Tonga, Venezuela, Colombia, Rwanda, Laos, South Africa, Nicaragua, Madagascar, Myanmar, Brazil, Mexico, Norway
  7. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2001
    Egypt, United States of America, Kenya, Chile, Burundi, Canada, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Comoros, Rwanda, Mauritius, South Africa, Uganda, Madagascar, Tanzania, India, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Africa

    This working paper summarises the importance of forestry to Kenya’s economy and describes the effects of other sectors on its development. The current and predicted future status of the different arms of forestry in the country are presented.

  8. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2011
    Honduras, Nepal, Zambia, Gambia, Chile, Guatemala, China, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Australia, Ghana, Congo, Venezuela, Guyana, Costa Rica, Malawi, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Madagascar, Colombia, India, Paraguay

    La seguridad de la tenencia es un requisito previo importante para la gesti?n forestal sostenible. La diversificaci?n de los sistemas de tenencia podr?a proporcionar una base para mejorar la gesti?n de los boques y los medios de vida locales, especialmente cuando la capacidad de gesti?n forestal del Estado no es suficiente.

  9. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2016
    Angola, Burkina Faso, Bangladesh, Honduras, Iran, Iraq, El Salvador, Afghanistan, Burundi, France, Guatemala, Canada, Congo, Guyana, Costa Rica, Kenya, Ghana, Lesotho, Madagascar, Botswana, Gabon, Cuba

    Meeting Name: FAO Committee on Forestry
    Meeting symbol/code: COFO 2016/REP
    Session: Sess. 23

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