| Environment - Conventions & agreements |
| Environment - Policy and management |
| Sustainable Development - General |
| Challenges and opportunities for the World Summit on Sustainable Development |
| "Challenges and opportunities for the World Summit on Sustainable Development: FAO's perspective" was prepared
as a contribution to the World Summit on Sustainable
Development, Johannesburg, 26 August-4 September 2002. |
| English: http://www.fao.org/wssd/docs/ChallengesandOpportunityfinal.doc |
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| Environment - Conventions & agreements |
| Environment - Geoinformation, monitoring and assessment |
| Technical Support Services of FAO to the Italian project CLIMAGRI |
| This document details a financial contribution to FAO to provide technical support for the implementation of the national project CLIMAGRI – Climate Change and Agriculture.
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| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/2002/EN0501_en.htm |
| French: http://www.fao.org/sd/2002/EN0501_fr.htm |
| Spanish: http://www.fao.org/sd/2002/EN0501_es.htm |
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| Environment - Geoinformation, monitoring and assessment |
| TEMS (Terrestrial Ecosystem Monitoring Sites database) |
| The New TEMS database is now on line. The Terrestrial Ecosystem Monitoring Sites database (TEMS) is an international directory of sites (T.Sites) and networks that carry out long-term terrestrial monitoring and research activities. Based on a core list of 110 variables, the database provides information on the "who, what and where" of long term terrestrial monitoring for use by both the scientific... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/2001/EN0501_en.htm |
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| Environment - Policy and management |
| Environment - Geoinformation, monitoring and assessment |
| The ICAMS Initiative: Development and implementation of an integrated coastal analysis and monitoring system |
| The objective of ICAMS is to develop, demonstrate and evaluate an operational system to monitor temperature, sediment, and chlorophyll concentration from multiple EO data sources and coincident standard surface measurements.
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| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/EIdirect/EIre0066.htm |
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| Environment - Policy and management |
| Environment - Geoinformation, monitoring and assessment |
| Regional Workshop for Decision-makers on Remote Sensing/GIS Applications in Agricultural and Environmental Management |
| Summary report of the Regional Workshop for Decision-makers on Remote Sensing/GIS Applications in Agricultural and Environmental Management held in Santiago, Chile (7-11 December 1998). Workshop topics included remote sensing and GIS and their applications in forestry, water resources, agriculture and environment. |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/EIdirect/EIre0067.htm |
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| Organic agriculture and FAO |
| Organic agriculture is an increasingly important part of the agriculture sector and consequently in FAO sustainable agriculture programmes aimed at assisting member countries in their efforts to respond to farmer and consumer demand, and giving information on the potential of organic agriculture to contribute to sustainability in order to direct research, extension efforts, and tap national and in... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/epdirect/epre0055.htm |
| French: http://www.fao.org/sd/frdirect/epre0055.htm |
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| Environment - Policy and management |
| Status of environment and natural resources in Small Island Developing States |
| This article reviews the status of the environment and natural resources in small island developing states. The information has been extracted from "Environment and Natural Resources in Small Island Developing States", prepared for the Special Ministerial Conference On Agriculture In Small Island Developing States (Rome, 12 March 1999). |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/EPdirect/EPan0015.htm |
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| Environment - Policy and management |
| Environmental Monitoring in China's Hubei Province |
| This article reports on FAO assistance to Hubei Province in Central China to enhance its environmental data acquisition and management capacity by strengthening the Hubei Agro-Environmental Protection Station, in order to identify, analyze, monitor and report on the levels of pollutants in water, soil and crops in the province. |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/EPdirect/EPan0011.htm |
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| Environment - Policy and management |
| Agricultural sustainability in rapidly industrializing Asian economies |
| Extracted from "Integration of Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development in Agricultural Policy" (FAO/Winrock International, 1996), this article looks at both the technology and the market aspects of the marginalization of agriculture in East Asian countries. |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/EPdirect/EPan0007.htm |
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| Environment - Policy and management |
| Water resources issues in the Arabic States Region |
| This article has been extracted from "Population Change-Natural Resources-Environment Linkages in the Arab States Region" (FAO, April 1996). A short country profile on Egypt illustrates many of the population-environment problems of the region, especially those arising from population pressure on natural resources. |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/EPdirect/EPan0006.htm |
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