The Resolution regulates fertility and conservation of soil. It consists of two charters: Charter for Determining Level of Fertility of Soil (Annex 1) and Charter for Soil Conservation and Fertility Monitoring (Annex 2).
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Library ResourceRegulationsDecember, 2013Georgia
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2013Chile, United States of America, Dominican Republic, Israel, Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Belize, Canada, Panama, New Zealand, Cyprus, Mauritius, Japan, Turkey, Spain, Italy, Brazil, Bahamas, China, Mexico, Norway
This document contains the proceedings of the technical workshop entitled “Expanding mariculture: technical, environmental, spatial and governance challenges”, held from 22 to 25 March 2010, in Orbetello, Italy, and organized by the Aquaculture Branch of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Department of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2013Qatar, France, Honduras, Japan, Nicaragua, Chile, Australia, Ireland, Canada, Venezuela, United Kingdom, Samoa, Maldives, Kenya
The purpose of the United Nations challenge badges is to raise awareness, educate and, most of all, motivate young people to change their behaviour and be active agents of change in their local communities. Challenge badges are appropriate for use with school classes and youth groups, and are endorsed by WAGGGS and WOSM. They include a wide range of activities and ideas that can easily be adapted by teachers or leaders.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2013Switzerland, Mozambique, Guatemala, Indonesia, Grenada, Ghana, Guyana, Cameroon, Nepal, Philippines, Uganda, Australia, Ecuador, India, Georgia, Papua New Guinea
El bienestar humano y la salud del planeta dependen de nuestra voluntad de cuidar de los bosques y de los procedimientos que empleemos para llevar a cabo su explotación. Es por lo tanto esencial saber quién posee y controla los bosques y cómo se ejerce la gobernanza de la tenencia forestal. Esta guía técnica se dirige a quienes desean mejorar la gobernanza de la tenencia forestal, ayudándoles a actuar en cuatro áreas críticas —la comprensión, la organización, la participación y la garantía—, y facilita sus decisiones relacionadas con los bienes y servicios forestales.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2013North Macedonia, United States of America, Germany, China, Azerbaijan, Indonesia, Ghana, Ethiopia, Italy, Finland, Colombia, Kenya, Jordan, Morocco, Barbados, Mexico, Moldova, Armenia, Brazil, Montenegro, Norway
This review of national greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation planning in the agriculture sector provides national policy makers and others in the agriculture sector with an overview of national mitigation planning processes to aid them in identifying the relevance of these processes for promoting agricultural development. It also gives policy makers and advisors involved in low-emission development planning processes an overview of mitigation planning in the agriculture sector and highlights the relevance of agriculture to national mitigation plans and actions.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2013United States of America, Spain, Singapore, Japan, Peru, Italy, Colombia, Ecuador, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Costa Rica, Georgia, Barbados, Belize, Americas
Climate change is likely to have adverse effects on the agriculture sector in Jamaica. Increase in the intensity and frequency of climate related natural hazards, increasing rainfall variability, droughts and floods combined with fragile ecosystems and coastal zones all contribute to Jamaica?s overall vulnerability to climate change. Climate change adaptation is one of the outcomes of the Vision 2030 Jamaica-National Development Plan.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2013Iraq, Asia
The present Country Programme Framework outlines how FAO can best complement efforts being made by the Government of Iraq to meets it development priorities relating to agriculture, fisheries, forestry and natural resources development objectives including food and nutrition security in the coming five years.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2013Algeria, Egypt, Spain, Iraq, Jordan, Oman, Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia, Italy, Sri Lanka, Asia, Northern Africa
For many centuries, the people of the Near East and North Africa (NENA) Region were able to cope, and even flourish, under conditions of water scarcity. However, with decades of relentless high rate of population growth, rapid urbanization, and uncharacteristically excessive consumption patterns, the region is now facing unprecedented levels of pressure on its natural resources.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2013India, Turkey, Canada, China, Switzerland
The global economic cost of food wastage, based on 2009 producer prices, is 750 billion USD, approximately the 2011 GDP of Turkey or Switzerland. The lost grain in sub-Saharan Africa only could meet the minimum annual food requirement of 48 million people. Lost and wasted food represents a missed opportunity to feed the growing world population. It also comes at a steep environmental price, as land quality, water quantity, biodiversity are adversely affected. Wasted food also has a strong impact on global climate change.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2013Switzerland, Israel, China, Sri Lanka, Bolivia, Pakistan, Niger, Thailand, Morocco, Malaysia, Haiti, Tanzania, Brunei Darussalam, India, Chad, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Mongolia, Asia
Tigerpaper is a quarterly news bulletin dedicated to the exchange of information relating to wildlife and natural resources management for the Asia-Pacific region. Forest News reports on FAO forestry activities in the Asia-Pacific region.
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