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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    June, 2021
    Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania, Australia

    Ce rapport met en lumière les principaux risques et tendances relatifs aux ressources en terres, en sols et en eau et présente les moyens par lesquels nous pourrons résoudre les problèmes de concurrence entre utilisateurs et produire les multiples avantages souhaitables pour les populations et l’environnement. Disponible dans toutes les langues officielles de l’ONU ainsi que sous format numérique pour une lecture sur appareil portable. Rapport complet disponible en 2022.

  2. Library Resource
    Measuring Individuals’ Rights to Land; An Integrated Approach to Data Collection for SDG Indicators 1.4.2 and 5.a.1
    Reports & Research
    September, 2019
    Global

    Land is a key economic resource inextricably linked to access to, use of and control over other economic and productive resources. Recognition of this, and the increasing stress on land from the world’s growing population and changing climate, has driven demand for strengthening tenure security for all. This has created the need for a core set of land indicators that have national application and global comparability, which culminated in the inclusion of indicators 1.4.2 and 5.a.1 in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agenda.

  3. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2014
    Global

    The “Voluntary Guidelines on Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries, and Forests in the Context of National Food Security” (VGGT), endorsed by the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) in 2012, set out principles and internationally accepted standards for responsible practices and is the first comprehensive intergovernmental global instrument on tenure and its administration.

  4. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    April, 2014
    Europe

    March 2014 – This article presents a joint FAO and World Bank initiative to integrate the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security principles on gender equality into the Bank financed land administration projects in six Western Balkans countries. Even though the land agencies generate inordinate amounts of data, these are not efficiently used to inform policy makers, because of lack of capacity and manpower to properly process and link them between sub-sectors and over time.

  5. Library Resource
    August, 2014

    This policy note reviewed the status of
    farm machinery in the Kyrgyz Republic. Agricultural
    productivity, particularly in terms of grain yields, is low
    because of underinvestment. This note finds that a
    significant deficit in agricultural machinery is hindering
    sector productivity. The Kyrgyz Republic has fewer tractors
    per hectare than any comparable country, with a deficit
    estimated at 40 percent. The deficit of combine harvesters,

  6. Library Resource
    December, 2014
    Ukraine

    Ukraine is renowned as the breadbasket
    of Europe thanks to its black soils ( Chernozem black
    because of the high organic matter content) which offer
    exceptional agronomic conditions. One-third of the worldwide
    stock of the fertile black soils, which cover more than half
    of Ukraine s arable land, a large variety of climatic zones,
    and favourable temperature and moisture regimes, offers
    attractive conditions for the production of a large range of

  7. Library Resource
    November, 2015

    This module provides guidance and a
    comprehensive menu of practical tools for integrating gender
    in the planning, design, implementation, and evaluation of
    projects and investments in climate-smart agriculture (CSA).
    The module emphasizes the importance and ultimate goal of
    integrating gender in CSA practices, which is to reduce
    gender inequalities and ensure that men and women can
    equally benefit from any intervention in the agricultural

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