Since 1950 FAO has prepared and advocated decennial programmes for the World Census of Agriculture (WCA). The 2000 Programme was the sixth in the series. These programmes on one hand serve to promote availability of internationally comparable data on the structure of agriculture; on the other hand they provide methodological guidance to countries in collecting data, following standard concepts, definitions and classifications.
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Library ResourceArtículos de revistas y librosDiciembre, 2013Serbia, Nigeria, República Dominicana, Zambia, Israel, El Salvador, Afganistán, Samoa, Ucrania, Perú, Belarús, China, Comoras, Eslovaquia, Seychelles, Mozambique, Uganda, Kirguistán, Haití, Iraq, Rusia, México, Mongolia
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Library ResourceArtículos de revistas y librosDiciembre, 2002Suiza, Chile, Perú, Australia, Jamaica, Bolivia, China, Irán, Rusia, Etiopía, Nepal, Kirguistán, Italia, Tanzania, Ecuador, Argentina, India, Reino Unido, México, Brasil
Statements from FAO's Director-General and the King of Nepal, profiles of mountain issues and activities from countries such as Bolivia, Italy, Kyrgyzstan and Peru, and information on mountain forests, tropical cloud forests and sacred mountains complete Unasylva's foray into the mountains.
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Library ResourceArtículos de revistas y librosDiciembre, 2009Antigua y Barbuda, Egipto, Estados Unidos de América, Francia, Australia, Reino Unido, Canadá, Tailandia, Mozambique, Filipinas, Singapur, Malasia, Italia, Botswana, India, México, Noruega
Fisheries around the world make essential contributions to human well-being including the provision of basic food supplies. employment, recreational opportunities. foreign currency and others, providing benefits to hundreds of millions of people. Despite these benefits, our record of managing fisheries so that the benefits can be sustained has been poor; at best, and most fisheries around the world are experiencing serious ecological, social or economic problems and usually all three.
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Library ResourceArtículos de revistas y librosDiciembre, 1998República Dominicana, Jamaica, Barbados, Italia
This report describes the potential for inland fish farming among the Caribbean Island States based on methods used in an earlier study (“A strategic assessment of the potential for freshwater fish farming in Latin America”, COPESCAL Technical Paper, No. 10, 1997) to estimate freshwater fish farming potential in Latin America. Four criteria were used to estimate potential for small-scale fish farming in ponds: water loss, potential for farm gate sales, soil and terrain suitability for ponds and availability of agriculture by-products as feed or fertilizer inputs.
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Library ResourceOctubre, 2013Haití, América central, América del Sur
CIAT - International Center for Tropical Agriculture. Achieving Sustainable Agricultural Production in Haiti. In collaboration with international and local partners to assist with Haiti’s severe food production constraints in three major areas:
Seed Solutions for Food Security
Improved seeds of staple crops are a major leverage point for change in agriculture. By giving higher and more stable yields, they offer short-term benefits, which open the way toward a more profound transformation.
Resilient System Solutions for Sustainable Growth
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesDiciembre, 2012Belice, Burundi, Zimbabwe, Granada, Jamaica, Bolivia, Cuba, Colombia, Tailandia, Rwanda, Filipinas, Lesotho, Uganda, Haití, Italia, Togo
FAO-Adapt consolidates FAO’s multidisciplinary expertise on climate change adaptation. Through this Organization-wide framework, FAO provides countries with best practices, key principles and priority themes on which member nations can focus adaptation efforts in agriculture and food security. Since launching FAO-Adapt in June 2011, the Organization has: developed and implemented new, adaptation-focused projects and programmes; and enhanced FAO’s own capacity to deliver adaptation support to member countries.
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Library ResourcePolíticas NacionalesSaint Kitts y Nevis, Américas, Caribe
In 2005 the EU began far-reaching reform of its sugar sector resulting in a cut of 36% over four years (2006-2010) on the guaranteed price for raw sugar, which is the main variety exported by Caribbean countries. In anticipation of the impending cuts the Government of St. Kitts and Nevis took the decision to stop sugar production in 2005 after centuries of sugar production.
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An Act to make provision for the amount of compensation payable for damage to agricultural crops and other trees.
LegislaciónGranada, Américas, CaribeThe Act provides with respect to the amount of compensation payable for damage to agricultural crops and fruit trees. Where the damage amounts to total destruction, the compensation shall be calculated at the rates set out in the Schedule. If the damage is partial, the compensation shall be calculated on that proportion of the amount for total destruction directly attributable to the damage as may be determined by assessors appointed by the parties within four days of the occurrence of the damage.
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An Act to make provision respecting the purchase by tenants of agricultural holdings for the purpose of facilitating agricultural development in Barbados.
LegislaciónBarbados, Américas, CaribeThis Act prescribes that it shall be a term or condition of every tenancy of an agricultural holding of a plantation specified in the First Schedule to this Act that a qualified tenant may purchase the freehold of that agricultural holding at a price to be agreed upon between the landlord and tenant. “Agricultural holding” is defined by the Security of Tenure of Small Holdings Act. A qualified tenant is a tenant that has been cultivating the holding for a specified number of years. An option to purchase shall be exercised in the form as set out in the Second Schedule to this Act.
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An Act relating to loans for agricultural purposes.
LegislaciónGranada, Américas, CaribeThe Act provides with respect to the granting of loans for the cultivation and management of land. No person who is owner of lands of a gross agricultural value exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars shall be eligible for a loan by the Government under this Act, provided that the Minister may from time to time increase the limit to any amount not exceeding five thousand dollars.
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