El sector agropecuario de América Latina es considerado el verdadero motor de la economía en los países de la región (World Bank, 2007; Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y

la Agricultura [FAO], 2013b). La vasta oferta de productos primarios, procesados y semiprocesados, que se comercializan de manera formal e informal en los mercados y puntos de venta de alimentos,

A presentation about wetland conservation in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam and integrated farming systems. The presentation includes aerial photography of Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam in different seasons. The presenter then discusses soil formation, hydrology, land uses (including data on rice exports and shrimp demand), and threats to the region. Finally, the presenter discusses integrated farming systems, research and applications.

Agricultural value chains link urban consumption with rural production. Changing demand, as a consequence of urbanization, emergence of «modern» consumption patterns or new trends in international trade, impacts on rural areas along value chains and spills over to marketing and production systems.These rural urban linkages bear challenges but also mutual benefits for producers and consumers and can be promising entry points for development interventions.This is illustrated with the case of the Kenyan potato value chain.

The Regulation provides principles and procedures for the protection and proper utilization of agricultural lands.

El presente Decreto Supremo tiene por objeto precisar disposiciones que regulan otorgamiento de tierras eriazas de dominio del Estado con aptitud agropecuaria para el desarrollo de pequeña agricultura, a fin de asegurar su correcta aplicación; así como establecer disposiciones complementarias que permitan el reuso de aguas residuales tratadas en tierras eriazas, que se otorguen al amparo del Reglamento en materia del otorgamiento de tierras eriazas de la Ley N° 26505, de la inversión privada en el desarrollo de las actividades económicas en las tierras del territorio nacional y de las comun

The National Long Term Vision 2030 (Vision 2030) is Zambia's first ever written long-term plan, expressing Zambians’ aspirations by the year 2030. The formulation process utilized both top-down and bottom-up approaches, where various stakeholders at both national and regional level were consulted.The Zambian people’s vision is to become “a prosperous middle income nation by 2030”.

This Decision approves the master plan on the socio-economic development of Dak Lak province.The master plan aims at bringing into play the province’s potential and advantages, especially human, capital, land, forest and hydraulic resources and minerals, for accelerating economic and labour restructuring.The main objectives of the plan include: development of agriculture, forestry and fishery; protection, development and rational exploitation of forest resources; sustainable protection and development of the environment and of natural resources; development of water supply, drainage and irr

This Act provides for the involvement of farmers in irrigation utilization with the Command Area Development concept, and for the regulation, maintenance and repair of irrigation systems.The Act provides for the establishment of a Command Area Development Authority and for the appointment of Commissioner Pipe Committees and other agencies.

The Country Investment Plan (Plan) is a roadmap towards investment in agriculture, food security and nutrition in Bangladesh. It is a five-year comprehensive plan with national coverage that aims to ensure sustainable food security which entered into force in 2011. The Plan provides a coherent set of 12 priority investment programmes to improve food security and nutrition in an integrated way divided into three components: 1) food availability, 2) food access, and 3) food utilization.

This Circular, consisting of guides the formulation and approval of plans to use the top soil of wet-rice farm land when it is used for another purpose, to improve poor-quality rice farm land and other arable land; and plans to reclaim, restore and improve other rice farm land to offset the area of wet-rice farm land used for another purpose under competent authorities' land allocation or lease decisions. Domestic and foreign organizations and persons (investors) allocated or leased by the State wet-rice firm land for non-agricultural use.

"Irrigation scheme" is defined as any water supply works constructed by or on behalf of the Minister of Works and Development or the Minister of Agriculture under Part XIX of the Public Works Act 1981, and includes (a) Pipelines, canals, water races, dams, weirs, and other facilities; (b) Any right to enter, use, occupy, carry out work on, or store water on, any land, or to the support of any land for any dam, pursuant to section 223 of the Public Works Act 1981; (c) Any mining privilege, or right to dam any river or stream or to divert, take, use, or discharge water, for the purposes of an

This Chapter defines the rights deriving from occupancy and the relative prescription.