For cities to be sustainable, they need to simultaneously address the vulnerability of people, places and sectors that may be affected by a changing climate; mitigate their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions; and ensure adequate access to basic urban services such as water, food and energy to their growing populations. 

Este vídeo recoge la vida de cuatro mujeres agricultoras y ganaderas. Pretende ser un medio para la visibilización y el reconocimiento de las mujeres que trabajan en el campo, modificando los estereotipos que la sociedad tiene acerca del sector primario.

Familias completas y en muchas ocasiones fragmentadas de manera violenta se aferran a la esperanza de recuperar “algo de lo perdido” en una guerra que por más de 50 años ha despojado a individuos, familias y colectividades de la libertad de construir su ser y su hacer en interacción con el medio en el que en algún momento decidieron o no, sería el testigo de la materialización de sus proyectos

Twenty years ago I completed my Master’s work in the Chaco forests of northern Argentina. The native forests are, in fact, rangelands. In addition to livestock grazing, there is timber extraction, wildlife harvest (think tegu lizard cowboy boots), and charcoal production. I took part in a project comparing biodiversity among production systems.

Patterns of land-use and land-cover change are usually grouped into one of two categories defined by the dominant trend: (1) deforestation resulting from expanding agriculture and (2) forest expansion, usually related to the abandonment of marginal lands. At regional scale, however, both processes can occur simultaneously even in the absence of net change.

Land abandonment is a major issue worldwide. In Argentina, the Monte Desert is the most arid rangeland, where the traditional conservation practices are based on successional management of areas excluded to disturbances or abandoned. Some areas subjected to this kind of management may be too degraded, and thus require active restoration.

This study gives an account of the implementation of a decision support system as a logical framework for assessing lake pollution hazard. The use of this system is demonstrated with an example from two lake watersheds, each one with different land-use, soil and topographic characteristics and also management regulations for natural resource protection.

El trabajo es un análisis de las condiciones de formación y desarrollo de la región del Noroeste de Argentina, ubicando los cambios generados en diferentes sectores económicos y sociales en los últimos 30 años, básicamente en la producción agraria, la minería y el turismo, y que impacta en el ambiente y la propiedad de la tierra

Meeting Name: Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (CGRFA)
Meeting symbol/code: CGRFA-15/15/14
Session: Sess. 15

Este informe contiene los principales resultados del Taller Mesoamericano de Capacitación para los Inventarios de Emisiones y Planes de Mitigación en el Sector Agricultura, Uso de la Tierra, Cambio de Uso de la Tierra y Silvicultura, que se realizó en San José, Costa Rica del 21 al 23 de julio, 2014, a través de la coordinación del proyecto FAO sobre el Monitoreo y Evaluación de las Emisiones d

In the last decade, the increased interest in bioenergy production has led to the need for improved crop residue management. Crop residues have historically been used for many other purposes: to sustain healthy soils for food production, as feed and bedding for livestock, and as raw material for heating and cooking.

The present report gives the complete description of the preparation of a land use map and also the preparation of a national map of livestock intensity, needed as LUS input. The present method allows the preparation of a multi-country land use map in two weeks with the work of 13 experts, and is comparable to the continuous of 130 working days.