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Book (stand-alone)The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Land Cover Atlas 2016
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No results found.This Atlas provides policy and strategic guidance to the rural sector on food security, which directly contributes to the overall objective of strengthening agricultural information and statistics services in the country. It includes an introduction text and the complete land cover mapping of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, organized in 34 Provinces and 5 Basins. Data tables and maps for each one of these districts. -
Book (stand-alone)The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. Agro-Ecological Zoning Atlas
Part 1: Agro-climatic indicators
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No results found.Agriculture is crucial for the national economy of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. Adoption of new strategies for agriculture monitoring, rural land use planning, and management are urgently required to reduce hunger and poverty and to assure sustainable food and feed production for future generations. The availability of reliable information on natural resources and agriculture for its monitoring and analysis is indispensable to the development and implementation of such strategies. For this purpose the project “Strengthening Afghanistan Institutions’ Capacity for the Assessment of Agriculture Production and Scenario Development” (GCP/AFG/087/EC), funded by the European Union (EU), is implemented by the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Within the context of this project, FAO and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) are developing a National Agro-Ecological Zoning activity (NAEZ) in Afghanistan. This Atlas is the first of two books and provides the collected information and maps of the country based on the agro-climatic Indicators. -
Book (stand-alone)Lesotho - Land Cover Atlas 2017
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No results found.The Lesotho Land Cover Database (LCDB) and ATLAS have been prepared in the framework of the FAO Emergency Program (OSRO/LES/401/EC): “Building Lesotho resilience through the upscale of Climate Smart Agriculture and functional DRR Land Resources Information”. The LCDB was developed in close collaboration with Lesotho Governmental Institutions including: Bureau of the Statistics (BOS), Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (MAFS), Ministry of Forestry, Range and Soil Conservation (MFRSC). The Lesotho Government supported the development of the Land Cover database providing valuable analogic and digital information. The very high resolution true color Ortho-photos of 2014 and 2004 that were provided by the Bureau of the Statistics (BOS) played a decisive role on the development of the database ensuring a very high and detailed quality and accuracy of the product. Furthermore, the Lesotho Government through, the Bureau of the Statistics and the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security , supported the field survey activities, development of the land cover classification legend and validation of the LCDB with skilled experts that provided important inputs for a reliable and accurate land cover database. The Land Cover Atlas of the Lesotho provides information on the land cover distribution by Administrative boundaries and River catchment areas. The administrative unit layer as well as the water basin layer and a number of ancillary datasets are provided by the Ministry of Fores try, Range and Soil Conservation (MFRSC), Ministry of Local Government and Chieftainship Affairs (MLGCA), Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (MAFS), Ministry of Tourism, Environment and Culture (MTEC), Ministry of Water Affairs (MWA) and Lesotho Land Administration Authority (LAA).
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