This second issue of the biennial series of the African Compendium of

Environment Statistics, presents environmental and environment-related data for the African region. Like the first issue, it is also in many ways experimental but covers wider topics. A special feature of this issue is greenhouse gas emissions and mineral production in Africa.

The objectives of the study are: (i) to assess the performance of the food marketing system in Africa; (ii) to identify the different barrier to credit and assess their impact on the performance of the informal food marketing system; (iii) to suggest sound recommendations on improving informal food marketing operators' access to credit.

L'objectif du Project entreprise par 1GN et ses partenaires est ainsi de produire mettre à jour régulièrement un inventaire du territoire agricole de l’Egypte dans le but d’améliorer sa gestion et de la, le potentiel agricole de nations et dans un cadre plus général de favoriser le développement agricole.

La presente Ley rige el desarrollo, el uso y la protección de los recursos de aguas de la Nación, así como su administración; confirma y refuerza la función de la Comisión Nacional del Agua como principal organismo de vigilancia y desarrollo de los recursos hídricos de la Nación y establece los Consejos de Cuenca, que son instancias de coordinación y concertación entre todas las distintas dependencias públicas interesadas, incluidos los usuarios de aguas. Se considera la programación hidráulica nacional como una función fundamental del Gobierno Federal.

In the developed countries less than 20 per cent of the population is engaged in agriculture. The rest is employed in the industrial sector. In the underdeveloped countries less than 10 per cent of the population is employed in the industrial sector and the rest is engaged in agriculture. At once this dictates that, for some time to come, the route to development in the latter countries will depend on agriculture, which also mainly depends on land policy and tenure. The land question is a contradiction in land rights and consequential social, economic and political abuses replicated on it.

The report presents the benefits of nuclear technology, the central role played by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of the United Nations in the transfer of nuclear technology applied to food and agriculture, as well as the experiences of Africa and some other developing regions in the acquisition of the technology. Some briefs are given on the discussions with scientists and technologists during missions to three African countries before concluding the report with recommendations.

African Agriculture is in crisis. Serious deterioration in the terms of trade, frequent droughts, growing expenditure on food imports, and rapid population growth on an ecologically fragile agricultural resource base have, all combined to prevent African agriculture from playing its vital role as the engine of economic development of the continent.

This document focuses on African compendium of environment statistics 1991. The topics covered in this edition include population density, land use, irrigation, round wood production, agro climatologically conditions, urbanization and disasters related to the environment.