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HIGH-LEVEL CONFERENCE ON WORLD FOOD SECURITY AND THE CHALLENGES OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND BIOENERGY
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March 2008 - FAO and its partners are being called upon to assist the international community in facing new global challenges that relate to the close inter-linkages among food security, climate change and bioenergy. Such challenges demand a more integrated and comprehensive response within broader strategies designed to address mitigation of and adaptation to the impacts of climate change and bioenergy, especially for the most vulnerable populations.
The recent thirty-fourth session of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Conference called for a series of expert meetings on climate change and bioenergy, to be held between February and April 2008 and two stakeholder consultations aimed at civil society organizations and the private sector, to be held in February 2008. The expert meetings and stakeholder consultations will be followed by a High-Level Conference on World Food Security and the Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy to take place 3 - 5 June 2008. The Conference web site contains information about all stages of the Conference.
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IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT TRANSFER
WORLDWIDE EFFORTS AND RESULTS
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April 2008 - FAO Water Reports 32. Agriculture is by far the largest user of the world’s water, soil and biodiversity. Today,
it finds itself at the centre of the debate on how to conserve the world’s environments.
It accounts for 70 percent of the total water withdrawals of the globe, a percentage
that is close to 85 percent when considering only the developing countries. As the
world’s welfare improves, demands from other water subsectors are increasing.
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IMPROVING TENURE SECURITY FOR THE POOR IN AFRICA. FRAMEWORK PAPER FOR THE LEGAL EMPOWERMENT WORKSHOP
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April 2008 - Legal Empowerment of the Poor Working Paper #1. Most of the world’s poor work in the "informal economy" – outside of recognized and enforceable rules. Thus, even though most have assets of some kind, they have no way to document their possessions because they lack formal access to legally recognized tools such as deeds, contracts and permits.
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IMPROVING TENURE SECURITY FOR THE POOR IN AFRICA
GHANA – COUNTRY CASE STUDY. TOWARDS THE IMPROVEMENT OF TENURE SECURITY FOR THE POOR
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March 2008 - Legal Empowerment of the Poor Working Paper #2. This paper provides an overview of the land tenure situation in Ghana. It focuses on the rural poor in terms of their access to natural resources, their vulnerability to major threats and the causes of their tenure insecurity.
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MAPPING OF MANGROVES FOR THE 2ND EDITION OF THE WORLD ATLAS
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April 2008 - A first systematic tentative to map the world mangroves ecosystem was completed by the International Society for Mangrove Ecosystem in collaboration with the International Tropical Timber Organization and the World Conservation Monitoring Centre and published in 1997. Ten years later, work on a 2nd edition atlas is underway.
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TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT TRAINING IN RIO GRANDE DO NORTE AND PARANÁ (BRAZIL)
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April 2008 - Press release. The Federal Delegation of the Ministry of Agrarian Development, through the Technical Cooperation Program TCP/BRA/3101, carried out a “Second Training Course for Technical Assistance and Rural Education Agents with a Territorial Perspective” 24–28 March 2008, which was held simultaneously in the states of Rio Grande do Norte and Paraná.
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WORKING TOGETHER TOWARDS THE BIODIVERSITY 2010 TARGET
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March 2008 - Cooperation between the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and The Ministry for Environment Land and Sea of the Government of Italy. The project web site, available in English, French, Spanish and Arabic, contains information about the FAO-Government of Italy project, related biodiversity news and events, external links and photographs.
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