Focal point
Location
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.
Members:
Resources
Displaying 4841 - 4845 of 5074Approaches to land classification
The papers presented here formed a part of the background documentation of an Expert Consultation on Land Evaluation for Rural Purposes, which was convened by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in co-operation with the University of Agriculture and the International Institute for Land Reclamation and Improvement, Wageningen, Netherlands. The meeting was held at the International Agricultural Centre, Wageningen, 6-12 October 1972.
Gender and land compendium of country studies
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. Over the
years, the division of responsibilities and labour within households and
communities tended to place farming and nutrition-related tasks under
women’s domain. Nowadays, in many societies women continue to be mainly
Assessing carbon stocks and modelling win-win scenarios of carbon sequestration though land-use changes
This publications presents a methodology and software for assessing carbon sequestration that were developed and tested in pilot field studies in Mexico and Cuba. The models and tools enable the analysis of land use change scenarios in order to identifyin a given area (watershed or district) land use alternatives and land management practices that simultaneously maximize food production, maximize soil carbon sequestration, maximize biodiversity conservation and minimize land degradation.
Standardizing land cover mapping for tsetse and trypanosomiasis decision making
The habitat of tsetse fly (Glossina spp.) depends upon climatic conditions, host
availability and land cover characteristics. In this paper, the Land Cover Classification
System (LCCS), developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), is proposed as a tool to harmonize
land cover mapping exercises carried out in the context of tsetse and trypanosomiasis
(T&T) research and control. Habitat modifications are
Land access in rural Africa:Strategies to fight gender inequality
In September 2008, the FAO-Dimitra project organised its third workshop with all its partners in Brussels, on the theme:“Information and communication strategies to fight gender inequality as regards land access and its consequences for rural populations in Africa”.
This document presents a synthesis of the workshop’s
activities as well as the different articles which were prepared for the workshop by the participants – the partners of the network and FAO colleagues.