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Intersectoral management of river basins. Proceedings of an International Workshop on Integrated Water Management in Water-Stressed River Basins in Developing Countries: Strategies for Poverty Alleviation and Agricultural Growth, Loskop Dam, South Afri...

Conference Papers & Reports
December, 2001
France, South Africa, Indonesia, Germany, Turkey, United States of America, Mexico, Australia
Land Conflicts
land conflicts
water management
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Alternate wet/dry irrigation in rice cultivation: a practical way to save water and control malaria and Japanese encephalitis?

Reports & Research
December, 2001
China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Philippines, Portugal, United States of America, Eastern Africa
water management
More irrigated land is devoted to rice than to any other crop. A method to save water in irrigated rice cultivation is the intermittent drying of the rice fields, known as alternate wet/dry irrigation (AWDI). This report reviews previous studies in AWDI, with a focus on mosquito vector control, water saving, and rice yields. Examples are provided from a number of countries.
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Case studies on the effects of transferable fishing rights on fleet capacity and concentration of quota ownership

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2001
United States of America, Chile, Australia, Ireland, Netherlands, Iceland, United Kingdom, Norway, New Zealand
land governance
land ownership
land tenure
This report describes how the introduction of transferable fishing (effort) or fish (catch) quotas has affected the capacity of the fleet prosecuting the target fishery for which the harvesting rights apply. It consists of 16 national, or national fishery, studies, describes how the introduction of transferable fishing (effort) or fish (catch) quotas has affected the capacity of the fleet prosecuting the target fishery for which the harvesting rights apply. The case studies include two from the European Union (the U.K. and the Netherlands) and for Iceland.
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Case studies on the allocation of transferable quota rights in fisheries

Journal Articles & Books
November, 2001
United States of America, South Africa, Chile, Netherlands, Australia, Ireland, Canada, Iceland, United Kingdom, Mexico, New Zealand, Europe, Americas, Oceania
land governance
land tenure
FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Technical Papers 411: The report, consisting of 23 studies, describes how the initial allocations of transferable fishing (effort) or fish (catch) quotas have been done by a variety of fisheries management regimes around the world.
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Small Dams and Weirs in Earth and Gabion Materials

Reports & Research
December, 2001
Egypt, Nigeria, United States of America, Singapore, Vietnam, Somalia, France, China, Eritrea, Botswana, Haiti, Guinea, Malawi, Niger, Ethiopia
development
agricultural land management
water management
natural resources management
This publication is a set of practical guidelines and norms for field project engineers for the design and building of small hydraulic structures using earth and gabions. This publication would be useful in designing small earth dams with a gabion spillway, intake weirs for gravity irrigation schemes, groynes, river bed training works and for protection against hydraulic erosion.
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The Economics of Conservation Agriculture

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2001
Paraguay, Canada, United States of America, Italy
farming systems
natural resources management
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Country Report - Angola

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2001
Angola, United States of America, Belgium, Portugal, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Luxembourg, Germany, South Africa, Netherlands, Senegal, Namibia, Brazil, Africa
Forest Tenure
forestry
forest land
natural resources management
The future state of forestry in Angola is assessed in this report in the light of prevailing factors influencing its development. Implications for industry, society and the environment are discussed.
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The state of food and agriculture, 2001 (Japanese version)

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2001
Honduras, United States of America, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka, Bulgaria, Latvia, Cuba, Pakistan, Switzerland, Kenya, Republic of Korea, Japan, Nicaragua, Hungary, Australia, Haiti, Argentina, India, Uganda, Czech Republic
land policies
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State of the World's Forests (SOFO)

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2001
Indonesia, France, United Kingdom, Brazil, United States of America, Ethiopia, China
Forest Tenure
forestry
natural resources management
The State of the World's Forests reports every two years on the status of forests, recent major policy and institutional developments and key issues concerning the forest sector. The purpose of the publication is to provide current, reliable and policy-relevant information to policy-makers, foresters and other natural resource managers, academics, forest industry and civil society.
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Results of the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2000 (Secretariat Note)

Reports & Research
December, 2001
United States of America, Japan, Ukraine, China, Italy, Indonesia, Brazil, Iran, India, Ethiopia, Finland, Mexico, Thailand
Forest Tenure
forestry
natural resources management
Meeting symbol/code: COFO 2001 6-Supp.1