This document constitutes the proceedings of an expert meeting on strategies, approaches and systems in integrated watershed management held in Kathmandu, Nepal, from 25 February to 1 March 1985. The meeting was organized jointly by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (…

The purpose of this Law is to establish the procedures concerning the establishment, organization, duties and jurisdiction of the General Directorate for Rural Services under the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Affairs. It consists of 5 sections defining the duty of this institution…

The objective of this Law, which includes 30 articles and 5 provisional articles, is to establish and define the tasks of the General Directorate of Land Reform under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs. Main tasks of the Department are: 1. Research and survey activities to determine…

This paper describes the pastoral situation in Erzurum Province, Anatolia, Turkey, and gives an account of some of the existing range management practices.It emphasises the necessity of understanding existing pastoral practices, and more importantly the circumstances that give rise to them,…

The objective of this Law, which includes 28 articles and 3 provisional articles in 3 sections, is to make provision for the following matters: (1) Productive cultivation of the land and increase employment in these areas; (2) Distribution of land to landless farmers or farmers with insufficient…

The objective of this Law is to specify which movable and immovable cultural and natural assets shall be preserved and to establish an organization which will implement provisions of this Law and to determine its functions (art. 1). "Natural assets" are defined as "valuables from…

The constitution was drafted in a Consultative Assembly and approved in a national referendum.

Projections reveal that to sustain the likely world population in the year 2000, an increase of 60 percent in agricultural production will be required. "Is there sufficient land to meet these needs?" becomes the overriding question. However, little precise information exists on which…

This paper discusses the role of FAO support to the Government of Mozambiques Land Commission since 1995, through three consecutive projects. While each has had a relatively short duration, all have been planned and implemented within a single conceptual framework with a much longer time horizon…

An international review of forestry and forest products