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The Regional Office for European and Central Asia (REU) together with the Subregional Office for Central and Eastern Europe (SEU) and the Subregional Office for Central Asia (SEC) organized successful informal consultation meetings in March 2010 in Budapest, in October 2010 in Almaty for Central Asia and in March 2011...

Challenges for gender equality in governing land and natural resources – The role of voluntary guidelinesFriday, 20th January 2012 The  negative impacts of gender inequalities on the governance of land and other natural resources have been demonstrated by various studies. Empirical research from different developing regions has shown that the...

The workshop was organized by the REU Plant Production and Protection Officer in close collaboration with IPPC Secretariat and FAOR in the Republic of Armenia. Senior experts from the National Plant Protection Organizations (NPPO) from 12 countries, mainly representing plant quarantine services, participated in the workshopThe main objectives of the...

The intent is to establish priority areas of action as well as a sustainable, overarching  mechanism for FAO collaboration with civil society in the Europe and Central Asia region.The potentially interested organizations and networks will initiate the process through the organization of a civil society consultation (16/17 April 2012 at...

Functioning institutions are a key ingredient to development, sustainable resource management, and societal adaptation to social, economic, and environmental change. In the forestry context, sector development depends on a functioning institutional framework which includes an appropriate policy and legal environment as well as public forest administrations. The latter play key...