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Community Organizations Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Acronym
FAO
United Nations Agency

Focal point

Javier Molina Cruz
Phone number
+390657051

Location

Headquarters
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
00153
Rome
Italy
Working languages
Arabic
Chinese
English
Spanish
French

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO acts as a neutral forum where all nations meet as equals to negotiate agreements and debate policy. FAO is also a source of knowledge and information. We help developing countries and countries in transition modernize and improve agriculture, forestry and fisheries practices and ensure good nutrition for all. Since our founding in 1945, we have focused special attention on developing rural areas, home to 70 percent of the world's poor and hungry people.

Members:

Naomi Kenney
Ilario Rea
Ana Paula De Lao
Marianna Bicchieri
Valerio Tranchida
Dubravka Bojic
Margret Vidar
Brad Paterson
Carolina Cenerini
VG Tenure
Stefanie Neno
Julien Custot
Francesca Gianfelici
Giulio DiStefano
Renata Mirulla
Gerard Ciparisse
Jeff Tschirley
Marieaude Even
Richard Eberlin
Yannick Fiedler
Rumyana Tonchovska
Ann-Kristin Rothe
Sally Bunning
Imma Subirats

Resources

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Profil de Pays – Comores

Journal Articles & Books
October, 2018
Mozambique
Comoros
Madagascar

This country profile describes the state of the water resources and water use, as well as the state of agricultural water management in Comoros. The aim of this report is to describe the particularities of the country and the problems met in the development of the water resources, and irrigation in particular. Irrigation trends, existing policies and legislation to water use in agriculture, possible treaties and agreements between countries as well as prospects for water management in agriculture are presented, as described in literature.

نُظُم التراث الزراعي ذات الأهمية العالمية

Institutional & promotional materials
October, 2018

قامت منظمة الأغذية والزراعة بوضع " نُظُم التراث الزراعي ذات الأهمية العالمية" للمساعدة في صون نُظُم الزراعة التقليدية البارزة وإدارتها إدارة متكيفة. وتعتمد هذه النُظُم على الممارسات الزراعية التي تعود إلى قرون والمعارف المتراكمة على مدى قرون للتكيف مع السمات الفريدة للمناظر الطبيعية المحلية وإنشاء نُظُم بيئية غنية بالتنوع البيولوجي والمرونة وذات طابع مميز.

Nitrogen inputs to agricultural soils from livestock manure. New Statistics

Journal Articles & Books
October, 2018
Angola
Algeria
Egypt
Equatorial Guinea
Burundi
Japan
Gambia
Benin
Ethiopia
Burkina Faso
Zimbabwe
Cameroon
Botswana
Ghana
Congo
Djibouti
Gabon
Chad
Comoros
Eritrea

The global agricultural sector today faces the double challenge of feeding a growing population while preserving the underlying natural resources of land, water and air. In the meantime, already a third of the world’s soils are degraded. Soil and nutrient management techniques aimed at restoring soil health will therefore be essential to meeting these challenges.

Soil Organic Carbon Mapping Cookbook 2nd Edition

Journal Articles & Books
October, 2018
Rwanda
North Macedonia
Bangladesh
Belgium
United States of America
Kenya
Luxembourg
China
Netherlands
Iran
Argentina
Mexico
Brazil
Austria

The Soil Organic Carbon Mapping cookbook provides a step-by-step guidance for developing 1 km grids for soil carbon stocks. It includes the preparation of local soil data, the compilation and pre-processing of ancillary spatial data sets, upscaling methodologies, and uncertainty assessments. Guidance is mainly specific to soil carbon data, but also contains many generic sections on soil grid development, as it is relevant for other soil properties.

Commemorating the 5th Anniversary of the Voluntary Guidelines on Tenure

Institutional & promotional materials
September, 2018
Tunisia
Kenya
Madagascar
Malawi
Somalia
Zambia
Benin
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Colombia
Laos
Pakistan
Finland
Ireland
Sweden
United Kingdom
Italy
Belgium
France
Germany
Switzerland

The leaflet will provide an overview of in-country projects and achevements as well as regional initiatives. Articles include but are not limited to: Community lands at the core of Kenya’s new legal reforms; The Voluntary Guidelines: an instrumental tool in the pursuit of climate mitigation goals and REDD+; Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure: an opportunity for peacebuilding in Colombia; Strengthening collaboration for the successful implementation of Sierra Leone’s Na tional Land Policy ; Enhancing food security through land policy reform in Somalia.