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  1. Library Resource
    Legislation
    November, 1996
    Paraguay

    Por medio de la presente Ley se aprueba la Convención de las Naciones Unidas de Lucha contra la Desertificación, en los países afectados por la sequía grave o desertificación, en particular en África, hecha en París, el 17 de junio de 1996, y cuyo texto integral se adjunta a la Ley.

  2. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 1996
    Italy

    This report discusses these trends by reference to examples from many countries which suggest viable ways to realise the development potential of wood energy without environmental or social drawbacks. It describes a changing role for wood energy in a changing world where fuelwood and wood-based fuels need no longer be associated with poverty or underdevelopment but could rank among viable modern options open to energy users everywhere.

  3. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 1996
  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 1996
    Zambia, Mozambique, Malawi, Tonga, Africa

    In preparing an investment project, development strategies and project components are defined and revisited during project formulation through a consultative process that often includes Socio-economic and Production Systems Studies. These studies are conducted to develop an appreciation of the situation in which the intended beneficiaries live, and their perceptions of their problems, needs and priorities.

  5. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 1996
    Slovenia, Estonia, Switzerland, Lithuania, Hungary, Croatia, Albania, Poland, Bulgaria, Latvia, Czech Republic, Finland, Romania, Slovakia, Europe

    Perhaps the most important socio-economic and political development in Europe between the time of ETTS IV and that of ETTS V was the start of the process of transition for the former centrally planned economies to a market economy system. The changes to every part of these countries' society and institutions are profound and sometimes painful. The forest and forest products sector is no exception.

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 1996
    South Africa, Lesotho, Italy, Africa

    This note on the Machobane system is based on information gathered by an FAO Investment Centre mission which visited Lesotho in July 1996 on behalf of the Government and the International Fund for Agricultural Development, to prepare the ground for the formulation of a Sustainable Mountain Agriculture Programme for possible IFAD financing. Observations of farmers attitudes and behaviour as well as relevant socio-economic data were collected in February 1996 in several villages of two Districts in Lesotho and are presented. See also the related FAO Investment Centre Occasional Paper N.

  7. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 1996
    Romania, Laos, India, Italy, Madagascar, Myanmar

    The Fourth International Technical Conference on Plant Genetic Resources, organized in Leipzig, Germany 17-23 June 1996 (see this number of the Forest Genetic Resources bulletin [FGR]), adopted a Global Plan of Action for the Conservation and Sustainable Utilization of Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.This plan excluded consideration of forest genetic resources, "..

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