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34 - Global map of Irrigated Areas |
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The latest version of the "Global Map of Irrigation Areas" is version 4.0.1. The map shows the amount of area equipped for irrigation around the turn of the twenty-first century as a percentage of the total area on a raster with a resolution of 5 arc minutes. The area actually irrigated was smaller, but is unknown for most countries. A special note has to be made for Australia and India where the map shows the total area actually irrigated. This is due to the fact that statistics collected in Australia and India refer to actually irrigated area as opposed to statistics with area equipped for irrigation which are collected in most other countries.
The CD-ROM contains full documentation of the map; including an explanation of the methodology, information per country, an assessment of the map quality, and references to the background and history of the irrigation mapping project.
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33 - Soil and Terrain Database for Central Africa |
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The compilation of a Soils and Terrain database for Central Africa (SOTERCAF) forms a part of the ongoing activities to update the world’s baseline information on natural resources. The present SOTERCAF database has been compiled by merging all existing data on soils in the Central Africa region. The data and maps have been compiled using standardized SOTER procedures and resulted in a soil and terrain database for the Democratic Republic of Congo at a scale of 1:2 Million with a total of 144 SOTER units, for Burundi and Rwanda both at a scale of 1:1 Million with a total of 56 and 41 SOTER units respectively. About one hundred and sixty described and analyzed soil profiles have been included in the database. Landform and lithological information is also included. The SOTER-GIS files are presented in ArcInfo@ format as coverage and export files with geographic coordinates in decimal degrees and with datum WGS84. SOTER attribute data have been stored in a relational database system in MSAccess@ format. A number of thematic maps –landform, lithology, dominant soils- are presented in Arcinfo@ shape files.
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32 - Agro-Maps, a global spatial database of subnational agricultural
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The Agro-MAPS database contains statistics aggregated by subnational administrative districts, on food crop production, harvested area and yields, for one or more years, for more than 130 countries. The data are being used, among others, in studies on land degradation, climate change, policy formulation, land-use planning and investments in sustainable agriculture. Users can interactively query the database, display search results as maps, and download data in a variety of formats.
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31 - Properties and management of drylands |
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The intention of this information tool is to serve as a major source of information for dryland experts and development planners as well as for the interested general public. It contains general information on drylands and specialized information on dryland management practices and strategies. It also comprises diagnosis/ assessments of dryland conditions, comprehensive case studies and lessons learnt, assessment methodologies for land degradation in drylands based on both traditional knowledge and scientific information.
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30 - Methods and materials in soil conservation |
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This manual summarizes the factors that control soil erosion. For
developers the ideal project cycle from feasibility, through investigation,
design, construction and planned maintenance is discussed. The role
of land classification in this approach is illustrated. Finally,
the methods available to mitigate soil erosion are discussed, the
design principles are summarized and the selection and specification
of materials is described.
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29 - Sistema de Información de Recursos de Tierras (SIRT) |
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El presente CD-ROM es una nueva iniciativa de la FAO para promover
los SIRT, en base a experiencias concretas y reuniones de expertos,
llevadas a cabo en América Latina, con el fin de sensibilizar
a los encargados de tomar decisiones en el ámbito del desarrollo
rural y medio ambiente para que incorporen los SIRT como herramienta
para realizar una mejor gestión y un gasto público
más eficiente por medio de una focalización territorial.
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28 - Photo library on soil erosion processes |
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The trilingual photo library is a complementary and technically
annotated photography annex to the "Guidelines for mapping
and measurement of rainfall-induced erosion processes in the Mediterranean
coastal areas" [United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP),
Mediterranean Action Plan and the Priority Action Programme], which
are also included on this CD ROM and gives guidelines and illustrations
for mapping soil erosion processes.
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27 - Conservation of natural resources for sustainable agriculture:
training modules |
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The objectives of these training modules are to raise awareness
of CA benefits and to provide materials for technical training for
promoters who are much in demand at training, seminars and field
days. This CD-ROM provides practical information about the different
principles of conservation of natural resources for sustainable
agriculture. The training guide consists of the following modules:
concepts and principles of Conservation Agriculture; cover crops;
soil (organic matter and biological activity, soil quality assessment,
preventing compaction, fertility, moisture); tools and equipment;
weeds; pests and diseases; livestock; economic benefits and exercises
for learning-by-doing.
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26 - Training Course on Water Harvesting |
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This CD ROM provides training modules and other relevant material
on water harvesting in five languages (Arabic, Chinese, English,
French and Spanish) focusing on 'runoff farming systems' for improved
production of crops, trees and rangeland species in drought-prone
areas. The objective of this training materials are (i) to raise
awareness of technical staff, extension workers and other stakeholders
on the water harvesting options available and (ii) to build local
capacity on the use of available data for adequate planning, systematic
design and sustainable implementation of water harvesting systems.
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# 25 - Soil and Terrain
Database for Southern Africa |
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This CD ROM contains the Soil and Terrain Database (SOTERSAF) for
eight countries in southern Africa. Additional soil information
and maps for selected countries are also included.
The scale of the maps presented varies between 1:1 Million and 1:2.5
Million
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# 24 - Properties and
management of soils of the tropics |
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This CD is a complete reworked and updated version of the standard
textbook written by Professor Armand van Wambeke on tropical soils
in a user-friendly, interactive format.
It describes the tropical environment and its influence on the formation
of soils, their properties and their management. Slides of the major
soil types and tropical landscapes complete the text.
The CD-ROM is intended as a learning tool on tropical soils for
students and agronomists alike. All tropical soils are discussed
within the framework of the World Reference Base for Soil Resources.
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23 - The Multilingual Soil Profile Database (SDBm Plus) |
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SDBm Plus is a collection of programs incorporated into a menu-based
interactive
user interface to enter soils data into a database and manage the
database. It is useful for storage of primary soils information
assembled at national level, or data collected in subnational or
local soil surveys. Data storage is greatly facilitated by the multilingual
function providing help menus in English, French, Spanish and German.
SDBm Plus is one of the components of FAO/AGLL’s GIS-based
decision support
tools for land resources analysis, and of the MicroLEIS land evaluation
system.
SDBm data can be used in various applications, including land evaluation
for
sustainable land use and management and soil monitoring.
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22 - Training Modules on Conservation Agriculture |
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The purpose of these training modes is to support the promotion
of Conservation Agriculture at community level. The modules provide
practical information about the different principles of Conservation
Agriculture.
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21 - Global Agro-ecological Assessment for Agriculture in the 21 st
Century |
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This CD-ROM contains information on soil, terrain and climatic
conditions worldwide, which forms the basis for a global assessment
of potential crop productivity. Numerous downloadable maps, tables,
a report on the methodology and results, and an executive summary
report illustrating the main findings may be also found here.
This product replaces and expands # 11 of this CD-ROM Series.
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20 - TERRASTAT - Global land resources GIS models and databases for
poverty and food insecurity mapping |
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The computer programmes on
this CD-ROM display and export different biophysical themes ranging
from specific soil constraints and climatic parameters to land degradation
status at national and/or global level. These outputs are linked in
tabular format with the population and population density in each
of the biophysical zones identified.
Out of Stock. Several GIS layers are available in
GeoNetwork.
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19 - Major Soils of the World |
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This CD-ROM is released in
conjunction with World Soil Resources Reports No. 94:
"Lecture Notes on the Major Soils of the World".
In addition to the complete
(hyperlinked) text of the book, it contains many additional pictures,
a slideshow with
a virtual tour of soils and landscapes and a typical soil profile
for each of the thirty
reference soil groups of the World Reference Base for Soil Resources.
In total more than 550 slides and pictures illustrate the lecture
notes.
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18 - Conservation Agriculture |
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This CD-ROM contains detailed
information and literature about Conservation Agriculture to improve
the knowledge base of those interested in this concept of sustainable
agriculture. It will provide technical staff as well as policy- and
decision- makers with information and arguments that will help to
support, promote and introduce Conservation Agriculture.
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17 - International E-mail Conference on Irrigation Management
Transfer |
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This CD-ROM contains all information
and documents posted on the Conference
Web Site. It includes all interventions made by the participants
of the international E-mail Conference on Irrigation Management Transfer
organized from June to October 2001 by the Land and Water Development
Division of FAO and the International Network on Participatory Irrigation
Management (INPIM), with the support of the Ford Foundation. The purpose
of the e-mail conference was to provide a global forum to identify
and share key issues and lessons gained from experiences around the
world on transferring the management of irrigation.
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16 - Knowledge makes a difference - WOCAT Video |
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This CD-ROM contains a video
presentation of WOCAT (World Overview of Conservation Approaches and
Technologies) in English, French and Spanish
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15 - AEZWIN - An interactive multiple-choice analysis tool
for land resources appraisal |
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This CD-ROM presents
the recently developed Windows-based software package for agro-ecological
zoning analysis at the national and subnational levels, including
models for land suitability and land productivity assessment and a
user interface to multi-objective land use optimization. The software
package allows models to be generated interactively corresponding
to various scenarios of land use and then to be analysed using modular
multiple-criteria model analysis tools.
The package is illustrated by the example of a detailed Kenya AEZ
study.
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14 -Participatory Training and Extension in Farmers' Water
Management |
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This CD-ROM provides guidelines,
procedures and relevant material for the development of a participatory
training and extension programme for technical staff, extension workers
and other stakeholders, to assist farmers to take charge of water
management at field and scheme level and adopt, in a sustainable manner
appropriate water technologies. The programme is particular relevant
to irrigation management transfer programmes to assist water users'
associations in the operation and maintenance of the farmers' irrigation
systems and to smallholder irrigation programmes to give guidance
to farmers in adopting efficient water control technologies.
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13 - Atlas of Water Resources and Irrigation in Africa |
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The Land and Water Development
Division of FAO is developing a global information system of water
and agriculture with the objective to provide users with comprehensive
information on the state of agricultural water management across the
world. The system will help assessing the role of irrigation in global
food production and the relation between irrigation and water scarcity.
The system combines classical country-based statistics on all aspects
of agricultural water management (water resources and use, irrigation,
drainage, etc.), known as AQUASTAT, and a set of maps, data and models
combined through a Geographical Information System (GIS). Africa is
the first continent for which the information system has been completed.
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12 - Irrigation Guidelines on CD-ROM |
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The objective of this CD-ROM
is to present a collection of irrigation guidelines for small- to
medium-scale irrigation schemes (up to 1 000 ha). The aim is not solely
to present existing irrigation guidelines on a CD-ROM but to use the
interactive potential of this medium to assist the user in extracting
information and data from the guidelines for specific purposes. A
menu-driven media tool for easy orientation on the subject and for
a wide range of applications has been developed for a variety of potential
users.
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On-line IES- Irrigation Equipment Supply
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11 - Global Agro-ecological Zones |
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This CD-ROM contains information
on soil, terrain and climatic conditions worldwide, which forms the
basis for a global assessment of potential crop productivity. Numerous
downloadable maps, tables and a report on the methodology and results
illustrate the findings.
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10 - Soil and Terrain Database, Land Degradation Status and
Soil Vulnerability Assessment for Central and Eastern Europe |
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This CD-ROM contains information
in the form of databases, maps and reports on soil, on the soil degradation
status and gives a soil vulnerability assessment for eleven metals
in thirteen countries in central and eastern Europe.
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9 (rev.)- World Overview of Conservation
Approaches and Technologies III |
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This CD-ROM Version 3.0 illustrates
the WOCAT methodology and contains an introduction to WOCAT; databases
of SWC technologies, approaches and maps; questionnaires; addresses;
guidelines; a slide presentation; various reports and aglossary.
WOCAT was established as a global network of SWC specialists. Its
mission is to provide tools that allow Soil and Water Conservation
(SWC) specialists to share their valuable knowledge in soil and water
management, that assist them in their search for appropriate SWC technologies
and approaches, and that support them in making decisions in the field
and at the planning level.
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8 - Integrated Planning for Sustainable Resource Management
of Land Resources |
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In collaboration with UNEP,
FAO has developed an improved planning framework for land resorces
development and management that addresses the problems recognized
during the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
in 1992 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The main document on this CD-ROM, "The Future of Our Land: Facing
the Challenge", is the third in a series of three publications
which introduce these new concepts and propose an integrated planning
approach for sustainable management of land resources based on an
interactive partnership between governments and people. The approach
is centered on the concept of stakeholders and their objectives, and
the role of government in creating the conditions within which rural
people can use their land resources productively and sustainably.
Several examples from different projects worldwide illustrate the
importance of the key elements of the approach in creating an enabling
environment that makes it possible to address the common concern to
manage land sustainably for the benefit of present and future generations.
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7 - Soil and Physiographic Database for North and Central Eurasia |
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This CD contains information
on soil and terrain resouces in North and Central Eurasia, more specifically
for the countries of the CIS and Baltic states, China and Mongolia.
The information is stored in Arc/Info export format.
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6 - SIMIS - Scheme Irrigation Management Information System |
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SIMIS (Scheme Irrigation Management
Information System) is a decision support system aimed at assisting
the managers and staff of irrigation systems in their daily tasks.
A SIMIS project stores information about climate, soils, crops, irrigation
network, land tenure, land use and the maintenance needs of an irrigation
scheme. SIMIS processes information to provide crop water requirements
and estimate irrigation needs at farm and canal level. By interacting
with the user it generates water delivery schedules for different
modalities of water distribution (proportional, rotational and semi-demand)
and seasonal irrigation plans. SIMIS also provides support on accounting,
calculating water fees, maintenance control and performance indicators.
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5 - Soils and Terrain Digital Database for Latin America and the Caribbean |
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This CD-ROM contains information
on the soil and terrain resources of Latin America and the Caribbean
compiled according to the soil and terrain database methodology (SOTER).
Information is stored in a relational database and in Arc/Info export
format. An independent viewer programme allows access to all major
information contained in the CD-ROM.
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4 - ECOCROP 1 + 2 |
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Ecocrop 1 is a tool to identify
plant species for given environments and uses. The database contains
basic crop environmental information and permits the identification
of more than 2100 plant species of economic importance whose most
important climate and soil requirements match the data on soil and
climate entered by the user.
Ecocrop 2 is a tool to record, organize, compare and use crop response
studies to environmental and management factors. The database holds
crop response information of varieties of 20 crops of world wide economic
importance.
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3 - The WOCAT CD-ROM (rev. 2) |
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This CD-ROM illustrates the
WOCAT methodology and contains preliminary datasets and results. WOCAT
(World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies) is an
international programme launched by the World Association of Soil
and Water Conservation (WASCW). The CD-ROM contains a programme profile,
addresses, preliminary databases of SWC technologies, approaches,
maps, a multimedia presentation, questionnaires, various reports with
first results, and a glossary. All data are preliminary, subject to
amendments by the contributors !
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2 - Soil and Terrain Database for northeastern Africa |
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This CD-ROM contains a collection
of land and natural resource information for northeastern Africa,
in particular for the IGAD countries bordering the Nile basin. It
includes data on administrative boundaries, rivers and lakes, soil
and terrain, climatology, land use, physiography, geology and natural
vegetation in easily accessible format.
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1 - Digital Soil Map of the World and derived soil properites (Rev.
1) |
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This CD-ROM contains the Digital Soil Map of the World in various
formats, verctor as well as raster, supported by most GIS software.
The base material is the FAO/UNESCO Soil Map of the World at an
original scale of 1:5 million. Programs and data files give tabular
country information on soil characteristics and derived soil properties
from the map are included, such as pH, organic carbon content and
soil moisture storage capability.
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