Ill-regulated land acquisition and unilateral land concessions may often trigger forced relocations, conflicts and human rights abuses. This course introduces the concept of Free, Prior and Informed Consent that indigenous people and small family farmers can use to protect their customary or traditional land rights. The process ensures that communities can participate in decision-making processes and that their concerns, priorities and preferences are accommodated in any project affecting their lands, territories and resources.

”Enhancing country capacity for United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change reporting processes for the Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use sector: Uruguay” summarizes the support provided by FAO between 2014 and 2015 to the government of Uruguay, through the Monitoring and Assessment of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Mitigation in Agriculture (MAGHG) project.

شهد استخدام المياه على المستوى العالمي زيادة بمعدل فاق معدل الزيادة السكانية بمقدار الضعف خلال القرن الفائت، ووصل عدد أكبر من الأقاليم إلى الحد الذي لا يمكن بعده توفير خدمات مياه يعتمد عليها. وتضطلع منظمة الأغذية والزراعة، بالتعاون مع وزارة الزراعة ووزارة المياه والطاقة، بتنفيذ عدد من المشاريع في لبنان للتأقلم مع شح المياه وتحسين الأمن الغذائي واستئصال شأفة الفقر. وتأتي هذه المشاريع ضمن برنامج «التأقلم مع شح المياه ودور الزراعة » لمنظمة الأغذية والزراعة الذي جرى تحديده كواحد من البرامج المرجعية والرئيسية للتعاون بين الحكومة الإيطالية ومنظمة الأغذية والزراعة.

The Netherlands became an FAO member in 1945, and has since been a valuable resource partner on multiple FAO projects and programmes. The Netherlands shares FAO’s continued interest in developing programmes for the financial inclusion of family farmers, especially women, by treating them as entrepreneurs and promoting their access to better credit and resilience. The Netherlands is also one of FAO’s largest donors for locust control issues.

This user instruction guide provides detailed description of the Emissions Overview On-line Tool, which is part of the AFOLU Emissions Analysis Tools aimed at supporting Member Countries in improving their national capacity to address UNFCCC reporting requirements and to design climate policy actions (i.e. GHG Inventories, Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions – NAMAs – and Nationally Determined Contributions – NDCs) for the agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU) sector.

This publication presents the outcome of the twenty-fifth session of the Asia and Pacific Commission on Agricultural Statistics (APCAS) held in Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic from 18 to 21 February 2014. Attended by 87 participants, including 64 delegates from 19 APCAS member countries, the session assessed both the current status of food and agriculture statistics in member countries and progress made in implementation of the both the Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics in the region and the World Programme for the Census of Agriculture 2010.

The focus of this report is on NRM activities broadly defined as those that promote sustainable agricultural production through improvements in on-farm soil and water management, such as social forestry, micro-watershed management, irrigation water management, and soil conservation.

Compelling issues such as climate change and food security require multidisciplinary approaches and multistakeholder action in the process of social learning for adaptive livelihoods. This entails an increasing demand for information, knowledge and participation that puts the need for planned communication activities at the centre of development initiatives. The paper provides a conceptual framework to participatory communication applied to climate change adaptation and food security.

Management response to the Final Evaluation of the project “Capacity Building and Institutional Development for Participatory Natural opment for Participatory Natural Resources Management and Conservation in Forest Areas of Mongolia” - as of Mongolia” -GCP/MON/002/NET GCP/MON/002/NET