| Global Climate Maps |
| The Special contains information on methodology (how to interpret a map, how is built, how values are computed), raw data maps, and derived products, as well as free download of 53 georeferenced maps and image analysis software. |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/EIdirect/climate/EIsp0002.htm |
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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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| People - Participation |
| Monitoring and evaluating stakeholder participation in agriculture and rural development projects: a literature review |
| This article reviews the current literature on the subject, and also highlights three key methodological issues to be addressed: how to assess the degree and quality of participation; how to measure the costs and benefits of participation to the stakeholders involved; and how to assess the impact of that participation on desired project outputs, project performance and sustainability. An annotated... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/PPdirect/PPre0074.htm |
| French: http://www.fao.org/sd/FRdirect/PPre0074.htm |
| Spanish: http://www.fao.org/sd/SPdirect/PPre0074.htm |
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| Institutions - Social capital |
| Rural household income strategies and interactions with the local institutional environment: a methodological framework |
| This article reports on a research programme on rural household income strategies and interactions with the local institutional environment. Its focus on both the household and local institutions explores the income strategies of rural households and the manifold ways in which households - and members of the household - are linked to different institutional settings. The purpose of this pilot proj... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/ROdirect/ROan0021.htm |
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| Institutions - Public institutions |
| Pastoral institutions and approaches to risk management and poverty alleviation in Central Asian countries in transition |
| This report synthesises the results of work by three national teams - in Mongolia, China and Kyrgyzstan - working with FAO support on institutional approaches to pastoral risk management in Central Asia, within the wider context of poverty alleviation and food insecurity.
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| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/ROdirect/ROan0018.htm |
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| Institutions - Social capital |
| Participatory institutional development |
| Much emphasis has been paid in development literature to the importance of capital: natural, man-made and human capital. Yet little attention has been given to its fourth dimension: social capital. According to this article, social capital theory aims at developing propositions about the conditions under which governments and communities can cooperate to achieve common ends. It states that horizon... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/PPdirect/PPan0012.htm |
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