Aquatic genetic resources (AqGR) play a crucial role in contributing to global food security and nutrition, as well as sustainable livelihoods. However, in various international fora, most FAO members have highlighted the limitations and constraints faced in assessing their national capacities…

The Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security explicitly mention pastoralists as users of the Guidelines and as targets of capacity building. Despite the historical and often ongoing marginalization of…

The project brief includes information about the details of the project, the background, objective, description and key achievements of the project.It also mentions about how the project will implement the operations to achieve Sustainable Development Goals of FAO in line with the Strategic…

Soil loss is a major threat to the agricultural development in Malawi and by extension is also a major hindrance to the overall economic development of the country since the Malawian economy is dependent on agriculture. Not only does soil loss reduce the cultivable soil depth but it also takes…

This book is aimed at finding answers to questions about what the current situation with soil resources in the region of Central Asia and Southern Caucasus as related to food security, and how we can improve the food supply through the impact on the soil. The book consists of three parts. The…

This work aims to provide a comprehensive, wall-to-wall analysis of land use/cover changes in the continental areas of Portugal and Spain between 1990 and 2012. This overall objective is developed into two main research questions: (1) Whether differences between the extent and prevalence of…

The ecosystem services concept is increasingly gaining momentum in land-use policies and landscape planning. Yet, cultural ecosystem services often lack proper assessments. With this study, we use novel methodological approaches to map the cultural ecosystem service landscape aesthetics for its…

From the outset, the development of agriculture has been strongly associated with women’s endeavour. In fact, women’s contribution to agriculture goes back to the origins of farming and the domestication of animals when the first human settlements were established more than 6 000 years ago.…

This country profile describes the state of the water resources and water use, as well as the state of agricultural water management in India. The aim of this report is to describe the particularities of the country and the problems met in the development of the water resources, and irrigation…

This publication is intended to assist anyone involved in the development or implementation of a legal or institutional framework to promote integrated coastal management (ICM). It includes revised versions of some of the information contained in the 1994 FAO publication "Legal and…

This guide is about making the recording or registration of tenure rights more relevant to people who hold those tenure rights, and particularly to people who are currently poorly served by systems to record or register tenure rights. It provides practical advice on ways to improve the recording…

国家粮食安全范围内土地、渔业及森林权属负责任治理自愿准则》明确提到牧民作为《准则》的使用者以及能力建设的对象。尽管牧民以往且经常被边缘化，本技术指南的制定是为了应对新兴的机会以便为牧民提供支持，并加强他们的土地和资源权利。可持续牧业的基本要素，如：确保传统权利、流动性和群落有效参与决策过程与牧民在可持续自然资源管理中的作用有关。在一些国家，已制定与牧区土地可持续治理相关的立法和法律框架，但是随着人口急剧增长、土地退化、气候变化以及不安全因素的不断增加，土地私有化和资源的减少等新出现的问题的形成，加强牧区土地所有权责任治理变得空前紧迫。强烈建议将本指南作为制定更多本地特色的牧民意见的框架…