This report is a summary report for Agricultural Production Systems and Resource Management in Zone 2 in Syria survey of the Farm Resource Management project.

This paper outlines FAO's past and present activities on combating desertification, with particular emphasis on the Near East Region, in an attempt to mobilise all the potential efforts towards the establishment of an adequate strategy to enable this particular part of the world to build…

This article looks at the changes which are taking place in the Syrian semi-nomadic bedouin flocks' feeding and migration patterns, and the historical reasons for these changes. Most of the discussion will focus on three steppe-based villages in northern Syria, where the International…

This Law consisting of 6 articles specifies how many hectares of land it is possible to own, divided by land types as follows (i) irrigated land; (ii) rain-fed areas with fruit trees; and (iii) rain-fed land. The Law also considers cases in which the indicated limit can be exceeded.

There is a urgent need for a better understanding of the risks of soil degradation and their geographical distribution as well as a better knowledge of where degradation occurs at present. it would be desirable to combine soil conservation activities with other elements for increasing crop…

An international journal of forestry and forest industries

An international journal of forestry and forest industries

This Resolution charges the competent Ministries in Syria and Jordan to form a joint committee in order to inspect and study the cultivated zones on the two banks of Alyarmouk River as well as to define the areas, which are incompatible with the Bilateral Agreement signed by the two Countries.…

This Decree is composed of 4 articles. Materials abstracted from the natural subterranean deposits and reservoirs situated in the public and private lands into the Syrian Territorial such as construction, installation, ornamental and industrial materials exploited in the private sector and joint…

This Law consists of 7 Chapters divided into 56 articles providing for land registration and survey. Chapter I deals with the judge and assistants entrusted to write, record and delimit lands. Chapter II provides for recording operations and temporary definition of lands. Chapter III concerns…