Tools
A tool is a resource that supports and guides the implementation of SFM. This section includes all the tools available in the SFM Toolbox, which can be in form of publications, e-learning videos, software etc.
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A potent argument for bioenergy development lies in the ability of the sector to unlock agricultural potential by bringing in much needed investments to raise agricultural productivity to spur food security and poverty reduction. This document presents the BEFS Analytical Framework (AF) developed to test this argument. Agriculture lies at...
The BEFS Approach supports countries in the design and implementation of sustainable bioenergy policies and strategies, by ensuring that bioenergy development fosters both food and energy security and that it contributes to agricultural and rural development in a climate-smart way.
This manual provides an overview of the BEFS Rapid Appraisal...
The BEFS Approach supports countries in the design and implementation of sustainable bioenergy policies and strategies, by ensuring that bioenergy development fosters both food and energy security and that it contributes to agricultural and rural development in a climate-smart way.
This manual provides an overview of the BEFS Rapid Appraisal...
The Bioenergy Impact Assessment (BIAS) framework summarizes the major issues related to impact and process based environmental assessments related to bioenergy development and attempts to bring together and evaluate the best available, tested and untested methodologies. It is part of a larger effort of FAO to facilitate decisions at various...
This Guide describes a methodology consisting of a preparation stage and six subsequent stages for restructuring biomass governance, each stage, consisting of several steps and having its own objectives and output.
The methodology works towards the formulation of a biomass energy strategy. It should however be noted that a strategy is...
This policy brief illustrates the recent scientific technological advances so as the business trends related with the implications of ABS and the Nagoya Protocol.
The global pharmaceutical industry is in a time of dramatic transition. Downward pressure on prices from many governments has increased due to the global economic crisis. At the same time, the “patent cliff” has arrived, with patents on many of the most profitable products in all the major companies recently...
In the last decade, the botanical medicine market has grown significantly, as has the range of products containing botanicals. No longer sold primarily as single ingredients,
botanicals are now often found as mixtures, in sports drinks, functional foods, cosmetics, and as natural alternatives to animal ingredients like fish oils, or artificial...
“Biosecurity” in food and agriculture describes the concept and process of managing biological risks associated with food and agriculture (in its broadest sense, i.e. including forestry). Biosecurity is emerging as one of the most important issues facing the international community. There is a growing need for countries to establish biosecurity...
The Financial Model is an Excel spreadsheet, which asks you a series of questions designed for inputting data about your orchard. Following are instructions and a description of how to answer the Input questions when you open the spreadsheet and begin entering your data. Please read these instructions first before...