In the months since approval in November 2002, the Challenge Program on Water and Food
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchApril, 2004Bangladesh, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Ecuador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Laos, Malawi, Mali, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, South Africa, Sudan, Vietnam, Zimbabwe, Western Africa, Middle Africa, Eastern Africa, Central America, South America, Western Asia, Northern Africa, Southern Asia, South-Eastern Asia, Southern Africa
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Library ResourceSeptember, 2004Northern Africa, Western Africa, Western Asia
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchMarch, 2004Algeria, Qatar, Egypt, Morocco, Iran, Turkey, Kuwait, Tunisia, Sudan, Asia
Session: Sess. 3
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2004Kenya, Morocco, Tunisia, South Africa, Ghana, Congo, India, Ethiopia, Niger, Eritrea, Africa
1. Degradation of natural resources is a significant constraint to sustainable agricultural development in many developing countries. In particular, water scarcity is a major threat to achieving food security and reducing poverty. Better water management, therefore, is critical to reaching international targets to halve the proportion of people without access to drinking water by 2015.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2004Bangladesh, United States of America, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Germany, China, Guatemala, Indonesia, Grenada, Jamaica, United Kingdom, Pakistan, Colombia, Costa Rica, Bolivia, Philippines, Japan, Tunisia, Argentina, India, Russia, Bahamas, Brazil
This report shows a broad range of statistics pertaining to world food and agriculture. It presents, where appropriate, the differences between developed and developing countries, continents and regions. It is hoped that managers and policy-makers dealing with international issues relating to food and agriculture will find the tables useful.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2004Algeria, Monaco, France, Morocco, Tunisia, Japan, Mauritania, Croatia, Denmark, Italy, Australia, Canada, Malta, Spain, Greece, Europe, Africa
This publication considers fisheries management policies in the Mediterranean in the light of the new objectives of sustainability and governance. Emphasis is put on the decentralization of public action and the reform of institutional mechanisms.The first chapter assesses the historical and societal bases of the dualism of small-scale fisheries and industrial fisheries. The dialectical relationship of power between these socio-economic categories is a result of arbitration by the public authorities that have entered into a spiral of interventionism.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2004Egypt, Bangladesh, United States of America, Samoa, China, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Iran, Republic of Korea, Thailand, Pakistan, Philippines, Malaysia, Japan, Uzbekistan, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, India, Sudan, Nauru, Cambodia, Asia
The first in a new series of biennial reports, this publication describes FAO priorities and activities in the Asia-Pacific region during 2002 and 2003. The introduction contains a succinct analysis of the main socio-economic developments affecting agriculture in the region. Other sections describe the challenges facing the region and present solutions in support of food security and poverty alleviation while protecting the region's natural resource base.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2004Egypt, United States of America, Chile, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, Cambodia, India, Senegal, Colombia, Thailand
The Expert Consultation was convened by FAO in order to elaborate guidelines on the policies and actions needed to increase the contribution of small-scale fisheries to poverty alleviation and food security. The twenty-fifth session of the FAO Committee on Fisheries, held in Rome from 24 to 28 February 2003, requested FAO to develop such guidelines as part of its series of technical guidelines on the implementation of the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2004Angola, Nigeria, Spain, Mauritania, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Cape Verde, Togo, Morocco, Portugal, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Senegal, Chad, Gabon, Norway
This document is the final report of the seventeenth session of the Fishery Committee for the Eastern-Central Atlantic (CECAF), which was held in Dakar, Senegal, from 24 to 27 May 2004.
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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsDecember, 2004Rwanda, Egypt, Japan, Uganda, Burundi, Italy, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Kenya, Africa
This report describes the project of strengthening the ability of the governments of the Nile Basin states to take informed decisions with regard to water resources policy and management in the Nile Basin. This objective to be achieved through the development of information products that integrate technical water resources and water use data with other relevant data, including in particular demographic, socio-economic and environmental data.
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