| 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 |
| Biological diversity for food and agriculture |
| FAO's goal is to help build a food-secure world for present and future generations, through access of all people at all times to sufficient nutritionally adequate and safe food. This requires the conservation and utilization of biological diversity, particularly biological diversity for food and agriculture, within sustainable ecosystems. FAO assists in the implementation of biodiversity-related c... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/EPdirect/EPre0063.htm |
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| Environment - Conventions & agreements |
| Desertification, drought and their consequences |
| Desertification and drought are the subject of this article. It looks at the relationship between them, the effects of the climatic changes and the consequences at the local, national and global levels. |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/EPdirect/EPan0005.htm |
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| Environment - Conventions & agreements |
| Recent FAO activities to combat desertification |
| The main mechanism established within FAO to facilitate its contribution to the Convention to Combat Desertification (CCD) is the ad hoc interdepartmental working group (CCD IWG) created in 1993. This group comprises representatives of 15 FAO technical services which have activities with a direct link to the sustainable development of drylands. Its main activities are described in this text extrac... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/EPdirect/EPre0062.htm |
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| Environment - Conventions & agreements |
| FAO report for the Third Conference of Parties of the Convention to Combat Desertification (CCD) |
| This report to the conference, held in Recife, Brazil, 16-29 November 1999, reviews FAO's past and current activities in the fight against desertification, including monitoring and normative programmes as well as field projects. |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/EPdirect/EPre0090.htm |
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| Environment - Conventions & agreements |
| Conservation and use of biological diversity and genetic resources |
| The article examines various issues, including biodiversity and genetic resources, aquatic ecosystems, plant genetic resources, animal genetic resources and wildlife, tropical forests, and the role of FAO in these areas. |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/EPdirect/EPre0007.htm |
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