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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO acts as a neutral forum where all nations meet as equals to negotiate agreements and debate policy. FAO is also a source of knowledge and information. We help developing countries and countries in transition modernize and improve agriculture, forestry and fisheries practices and ensure good nutrition for all. Since our founding in 1945, we have focused special attention on developing rural areas, home to 70 percent of the world's poor and hungry people.
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Displaying 4651 - 4655 of 5083Food and agriculture in Africa : ECA/FAO Agriculture Division
This paper examines the role of the International Financial institutions in the formulation of African macro-economic policies with particular reference to efforts aimed at adjusting the agricultural sectors of African economies. The paper attempts to
assess the impact of Structural Adjustment Programs(SAP)on African agriculture and through an examination of the application of the programs in three African countries - Malawi,Tanzania and Zambia.
Programme for the 1990 World Census of Agriculture
This publications provides information about the 1990 World Census of Agriculture. It is aimed to assist countries in planning, developing and operating the statistical component of a national information system for food and agriculture.
La financiación internacional de la silvicultura
El presente nmero de Unasylva refleja en cierto modo el Plan de accin forestal en los trpicos, ya que sus principales artculos se refieren a las inversiones internacionales en el sector forestal (S.E. McGaughey), y a cuestiones relacionadas con tres importantes programas del Plan: lea y energa (G. Foley); ordenacin de cuencas hidrogrficas, que es una seccin del programa sobre la funcin de la silvicultura en el aprovechamiento de la tierra (U. Chanphaka); e industrias forestales (T.M. Maloney).
La genética y los bosques del futuro
El principal articulo de este nmero de Unasylva, que es del Profesor Gene Namkoong, se basa en la ponencia que present a los debates sobre recursos genticos en el Noveno Congreso Forestal Mundial, celebrado en Mxico, D.F., en julio de 1985. Considerando problemas de naturaleza tanto tcnica como tica, el Dr. Namkoong esboza varias estrategias alternativas para la ordenacin de los recursos genticos de las plantas leosas y examina su aplicacin a una serie de condiciones socioeconmicas, niveles de tecnologa y objetivos biolgicos.
Forest resources mapping of Liberia
This report covers the work of forest resources mapping undertaken by the Remote Sensing Unit of the Forestry Development Authority of Liberia between March 1982 and June 1984. Its principle aim is to reassess the actual forest cover area of Liberia by interpretation of recent aerial photography and the subsequent transfer of this photo detail to 1 in 125,000 map series. The procedures adopted for this mapping study are detailed.