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Chile, Peru, Uruguay, Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Bolivia, Italy, Mexico, Panama
Information on water use is required for political, economic and academic decision making on issues affecting everyone?s life. Owing to fi nancial constraints, it is diffi cult to have complete and comprehensive information on everything related to water. Techniques and methodologies are, therefore, used to affordably maximize control. To improve understanding of the different techniques and methodologies used to generate information, the AQUASTAT team sent thematic questionnaires to approximately 170 countries in April 2009.
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Ethiopia, Italy, Benin, Madagascar, Sri Lanka
As water becomes scarcer in many countries, governments increasingly have to deal with the considerable challenges of water management. Sound information on water vailability and use is key to shaping water policies that aim to provide equitable and sustainable use of increasingly scarce water resources. Accurate information on agricultural water withdrawal is particularly important to planners and decision-makers involved in water management, as agriculture represents the largest water us er in many countries, representing about 70 percent of total withdrawal worldwide.
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Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Cameroon, Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Niger, Jordan, Italy, Netherlands
Land Tenure Journal is a peer-reviewed, open-access flagship journal of the Climate, Energy and Tenure Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Land Tenure Journal, launched in early 2010, is a successor of the Land Reform, Land Settlement and Co-operatives, which was published between 1964 and 2009. Land Tenure Journal is a medium for the dissemination of quality information and diversified views on land and natural resources tenure. It aims to be a leading publication in the areas of land tenure, land policy and land reform.
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Bienvenue dans ce premier numéro du Bulletin d’information sur les ressources naturelles et l’environnement. Il vous apportera chaque mois des informations sur les évènements importants, les nouvelles publications et les projets. Il vous proposera également des entretiens avec des experts sur diverses thématiques comme la bioénergie, le changement climatique, les ressources génétiques et la biodiversité, les ressources en terres et en eau, les régimes fonciers.
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Bangladesh, Lithuania, Zambia, Mali, Chile, Guatemala, Latvia, Malawi, Thailand, Laos, Philippines, Vietnam, Italy, Senegal, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Africa
Increasing women’s access to land is crucial to fight hunger and poverty. However, gender disparities in land access remain significant in most countries, regardless of their level of development. A new FAO database helps to understand the factors that prevent women from accessing land; and to design better policies to effectively address this situation.
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Nepal, Fiji, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Switzerland, Japan, Mali, Germany, China, Indonesia, Brazil, Netherlands, India, Republic of Korea, Thailand, Asia
A quarterly news bulletin dedicated to the exchange of information relating to wildlife and natural resources management for the Asia-Pacific region.
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Burkina Faso, Switzerland, Mozambique, Mali, Burundi, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Congo, Malawi, Pakistan, Niger, Cameroon, Nigeria, Rwanda, Malaysia, Chad, Kenya, Africa
L’impact de la variabilité et du changement climatiques sur la production agricole et la gestion des ressources naturelles est en cours d’examen approfondi par les scientifiques à tous les niveaux, tant dans les pays en développement que dans les pays développés. Un appel a été lancé pour des innovations technologiques et scientifiques destinées à atténuer les effets du changement climatique en vue de réaliser l’un des objectifs majeurs du Millénaire pour le développement (OMD) d’ici 2015 – éradiquer l’extrême pauvreté et la faim.
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Presentamos el principal asunto del Boletín de Recursos Naturales y Medio Ambiente. Todos los meses, ofreceremos información sobre importantes asuntos y eventos, nuevas publicaciones y proyectos, y entrevistas con expertos sobre varios asuntos relacionados con la bioenergía, el cambio climático, los recursos genéticos y la biodiversidad, los recursos de tierras, la tenencia de la tierra y los recursos hídricos.
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Un enfoque de comunicación para la adaptación al cambio climático y la Seguridad Alimentaría Asuntos ineludibles como el cambio climático y la seguridad alimentaría requieren de enfoques multidisciplinarios así como de la participación de múltiples actores en procesos de aprendizaje social para alcanzar modos de vida adaptativos. Esto implica una demanda creciente de información, conocimientos y participación, que evidencia la necesidad de planificar actividades de comunicación como eje de las iniciativas de desarrollo.
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United States of America, Chile, Australia, Canada, Iceland, Guinea, Republic of Korea, Thailand, New Zealand, Palau, Liberia, Japan, Malaysia, Italy, Tanzania, Brazil, Argentina, India, Norway
These proceedings contain the main papers and presentations from Sharing the Fish ’06 Conference: Allocation issues in fisheries management conference that was held in Fremantle, Western Australia, 27 February to 2 March 2006.
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