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Rural-urban marketing linkages. An infrastructure identification and survey guide
By: John Tracey-White By 2030, 60 percent of the world's population are expected to be living in urban areas. Population growth is not solely in larger metropolitan centres - the mega cities. The numbers of small and intermediate-sized urban centres are also increasing and have an important role as links in the marketing system. This guide provides a simplified aid to understanding the physical implications of marketing linkages, based on a regional planning approach. The guide provides a simple planning methodology and framework that focuses on the issue of linking farmers to market outlets for their produce particularly identifying their marketing infrastructure needs. The users of the guide are likely to be at national, provincial or district levels and could include planners and engineers in ministries and departments of public works and transport, planning and marketing officers in ministries and departments of agriculture, local authority officers in planning, commerce and marketing departments and local authorities, communities, farmer groups and voluntary organizations, concerned to understand marketing constraints and with ensuring that rural producers have better access to markets for their products.
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Field identification guide to the sharks and rays of the Mediterranean and Black Sea
By: Fabrizio Serena This volume presents a fully illustrated field guide for the identification of the sharks and rays most relevant to the fisheries of the Mediterranean and Black Sea. An extensive literature review was carried out for the preparation of this document. A total of 49 sharks, 34 batoids and 1 chimaera are fully treated. The presence of 5 sharks and 2 batoids included in this field guide, need, however, to be confirmed. The guide includes sections on technical terms and measurements for sharks and batoids, and fully illustrated keys to those orders and families that occur in the region. Each species account includes: at least one annotated illustration of the species highlighting its relevant identification characters; basic information on nomenclature, synonyms and possible misidentifications; FAO common names; basic information on size, habitat and biology, distribution, importance to fisheries, and conservation and exploitation status. Colour plates.
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Guidelines for designing data collection and sharing systems for co-managed fisheries. Part 2: technical guidlines
FAO Fisheries Technical Paper No. 494/2 The increasing shift towards co-management has prompted managers to reflect upon their new roles and reconsider information requirements. This technical paper, in two parts, is aimed to meet the growing need among co-managers for guidelines to help design and implement appropriate and cost-effective data collection programmes or systems. Part 2: Technical guidelines provides more technical detail on each of the sections in the Practical guide, including examples of the types of data that might be of interest to different stakeholders, data collection methods and sources, the design of sampling programmes, and guidance on data analysis and interpretation. Part 2 is aimed particularly at Department of Fisheries and extension staff, research agencies and academic institutions, but can also provide field practitioners with an additional resource that can be referenced when necessary. (Part 1 is ISBN 92-5-105409-6)
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Overcoming factors of unsustainability and overexploitation in fisheries: selected papers on issues and approaches. International Workshop on the Implementation of International Fisheries Instruments and Factors of Unsustainability and Overexploitation. Siem Reap, Cambodia, 13-16 September 2004
FAO Fisheries Report No. 732 This international workshop was organized in order to identify factors of unsustainability and over exploitation in fisheries and review major issues in the implementation of international fisheries instruments. The Workshop was based on a review of discussion papers that took into account the outcomes of the previous workshops on these issues. It addressed the following thematic issues: governance and fisheries management; causes or solutions for unsustainability; access and fishing rights; fishery management and sustainability dimensions; and small scale issues and developing country perspective. This document contains the report of the Workshop and eighteen discussion papers submitted by participants.
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Regional Commission for Fisheries. Report of the second meeting of the Working Group on Aquaculture. Muscat, Oman, 29-30 November 2005
FAO Fisheries Report No. 790 The Working Group on Aquaculture (WGA) reviewed the decisions and recommendations of the third session of the Commission held in Doha, Qatar from 9 to 11 May 2005, and the activities of the WGA that followed. Among the activities, the experts acknowledged that progress had been made with regards to the technical arrangements that would lead to the preparation of the RECOFI Regional Aquaculture Information System (RAIS). The WGA acknowledged that the legal and policy framework project proposal remained a major regional priority and agreed to actively seek funding support from the Commission Members as well as to approach regional donor agencies through the coordination of the RECOFI Secretariat.
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Tariffs in world seafood trade
FAO Fisheries Circular No. 1016 Given that more than half of the world seafood exports originate in developing countries, an objective in the current round of negotiations in the World Trade Organization (WTO) is to reduce seafood tariffs. This paper examines tariffs for seafood in 169 countries, covering most of the world trade, and 143 out of 148 WTO members.
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ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
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Land Reform 2005/2. Land settlement and cooperatives
Rome, 2005, 132 pp, Trilingual (En/Fr/Es) The key question of land is once again an essential item on the international development agenda. This issue of Land Reform, Land Settlement and Cooperatives offer the reader a series of articles and information related to the discussions that will take place in March 2006 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, at the International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural development (7 -10 March).
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Animal welfare and the intensification of animal production. An alternative interpretation
By: David Fraser This essay explores key features of the intensification of animal production in relation to animal welfare and animal ethics. It looks at some traditional ethical ideas about animal care in order to help explain why the intensification of animal production has become such a prominent social and ethical issue. It suggests that some of the standard claims made by critics of intensive animal production are seriously flawed, and proposes an alternative interpretation to account for some of the key developments in the intensification of animal production. Finally, it explores how this interpretation, if correct, leads us to a different set of actions to address animal welfare concerns in intensive production systems.
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Réforme agraire 2005/2. Colonisation et coopératives agricoles
Rome, 2005, 132 p, trilingue (En/Fr/Es) La question capitale de la terre s'impose à nouveau à l'ordre du jour du développement international. Le présent numéro de " Réforme agraire, colonisation et coopératives agricoles" propose au lecteur une série d'articles et d'informations relatifs aux discussions qui auront lieu en mars 2006 à Porto Alegre (Brésil, au cours de la Conférence internationale sur la réforme agraire et le développement rural (7 - 10 mars 2006).
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Bien-être des animaux et l'intensification de la production animale, (Le). Une autre interprétation
Par : David Fraser Ce document étudie les caractéristiques principales de l'intensification de la production animale par rapport au bien-être animal et à l'éthique animale. Il passe en revue un certain nombre des concepts éthiques classiques sur l'entretien des animaux afin d'expliquer de quelle manière l'intensification de la production animale est devenue un problème social et éthique aussi important. Il fait valoir qu'un certain nombre des allégations types émises par les critiques de l'élevage intensif manquent sérieusement de rigueur, et propose une autre interprétation pour rendre compte de quelques-uns des développements fondamentaux en matière d'intensification de la production animale. Enfin, il analyse la manière dont cette interprétation, si son bien-fondé est confirmé, peut se traduire par l'adoption d'un jeu de mesures différentes afin de remédier aux préoccupations en matière du bien-être des animaux dans le cadre des systèmes d'élevage intensif.
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Reforma agraria 2005/2. Colonización y cooperativas
Roma, 2005, 132 p, trilingüe (En/Fr/Es) La cuestión clave de la tierra vuelve a ser un elemento fundamental del programa de desarrollo internacional. Esta edición de "Reforma agraria, colonización y cooperativas" ofrece al lector una serie de artículos e información relacionados con los debates que se celebrarán en marzo del 2006 en Porto Alegre (Brasil) en el marco de la Conferencia Internacional sobre Reforma Agraria y desarrollo Rural (7-10 de marzo de 2006).
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OBRAS DE CARÁCTER GENERAL | |
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Bienestar animal y la intensificación de la producción animal, (El). Una interpretación alternativa
Por: David Fraser En este ensayo se averiguan las principales características de la intensificación de la producción animal y sus relaciones con el bienestar y la ética animal. Se examinan algunas concepciones éticas tradicionales sobre el cuidado de los animales para tratar de explicar por qué la intensificación de la producción animal se ha convertido en una cuestión ética y social tan importante. Se argumenta que algunas de las afirmaciones más comunes de quienes critican la producción animal intensiva están muy equivocadas, y se propone una interpretación alternativa para explicar algunos de los principales avances en la intensificación de la producción animal. Por último, se examina cómo esta interpretación, si fuese correcta, conduce a la adopción de diferentes de medidas que responden a las preocupaciones sobre el bienestar animal en los sistemas intensivos de producción
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Guidelines for the routine collection of capture fishery data (Chinese version)
FAO Fisheries Technical Paper No. 382 These guidelines are intended to help those who design routine data collection programmes, focusing on the relationship between typical questions asked by policy-makers and managers, and the data required for providing reliable answers. The guidelines are structured so that managers at all levels can use them directly for developing a data collection programme.
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