Agriculture influences and shapes the world’s ecosystems, but not always in a positive way. More than 2.5 billion people are globally involved as stewards of land and water ecosystems that constitute the natural resource base for feeding the current and future world population. Yet, conventional agronomic interventions based on ‘hard’ agricultural engineering compromise various eco-services that are required for sustainable agricultural development.
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresdécembre, 2018Égypte, Soudan, Kenya, République-Unie de Tanzanie, Afrique australe, Afrique du Sud, Nigéria, Mexique, Brésil, Colombie, Équateur, Pérou, États-Unis d'Amérique, Japon, Philippines, Iran, Népal
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Library ResourceDocuments et rapports de conférencedécembre, 2015Afrique septentrionale, Égypte, Maroc, Soudan, Tunisie, Afrique orientale, Burundi, Djibouti, Érythrée, Éthiopie, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Soudan du Sud, République-Unie de Tanzanie, Zambie, Zimbabwe, Afrique centrale, Angola, Cameroun, République centrafricaine, Tchad, Congo, République démocratique du Congo, Gabon, Afrique australe, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibie, Afrique du Sud, Eswatini, Afrique occidentale, Bénin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Guinée, Côte d'Ivoire, Libéria, Mali, Mauritanie, Niger, Nigéria, Sénégal, Sierra Leone, Togo
Land degradation and desertification are among the biggest environmental challenges of our time. In the last 40 years, we lost nearly a third of the world’s arable farmland due to erosion, just as the number of people to be fed from it almost doubled. That’s why the UN General Assembly declared 2015 as the International Year of Soils. And the good news is that this new report shows that while Africa remains the most severely a«ected region, the benefit of taking action across the continent outweighs the cost of implementing it: not just by a little, but by a factor of seven.
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Library ResourceRapports et recherchesdécembre, 2017Inde, Népal, Maroc, Afrique du Sud
With current rates of land degradation reaching ten to twelve million ha per year, there is an urgent need to scale up and out successful, profitable and resource-efficient sustainable land management practices to maintain the health and resilience of the land that humans depend on. As much as 500 million out of two billion ha of degraded land, mainly in developing countries, have restoration potential, offering an immediate target for restoration and rehabilitation initiatives.1 In the past, piecemeal approaches to achieving sustainable land management have had limited impact.
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Library ResourceRapports et recherchesseptembre, 2015Kenya, République-Unie de Tanzanie, Éthiopie, Soudan, Afrique, Afrique orientale, Afrique australe
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresdécembre, 2018Népal, Égypte, Nigéria, Rwanda, Afrique du Sud, El Salvador, Japon, Burundi, Pérou, Mexique, République-Unie de Tanzanie, Équateur, Colombie, Iran, Soudan du Sud, Soudan, Ouganda, Kenya
Accessibility to clean and sufficient water resources for agriculture is key in feeding the steadily increasing world population in a sustainable manner. Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) offer a promising contribution to enhance availability and quality of water for productive purposes and human consumption, while simultaneously striving to preserve the integrity and intrinsic value of the ecosystems. Implementing successful NBS for water management, however, is not an easy task since many ecosystems are already severely degraded, and exploited beyond their regenerative capacity.
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresfévrier, 2019Algérie, Angola, Guinée équatoriale, Bénin, Maurice, Namibie, Malawi, Niger, République centrafricaine, Cap-Vert, Madagascar, Cameroun, Botswana, Tchad, Burkina Faso, Mauritanie, Mali, Burundi, Guinée, Mozambique, Maroc, Italie
The AQUASTAT Programme was initiated with a view to presenting a comprehensive picture of water resources and irrigation in developing countries and providing systematic, upto-date and reliable information on water for agriculture and rural development. This report presents the results of the most recent survey carried out in the 53 countries of Africa, and it analyses the changes that have occurred in the ten years since the first survey. Following the AQUASTAT methodology, the survey relied as much as possible on country-based statistics and information.
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresjanvier, 2019Algérie, États-Unis d'Amérique, Samoa, Pérou, Indonésie, Tonga, Côte d'Ivoire, Congo, Guyana, Cameroun, Chypre, Malaisie, Belize, République-Unie de Tanzanie, Botswana, Éthiopie, Gabon, Rwanda, Uruguay, Népal, Italie, Soudan
The present study, by the Chief of the Agrarian and Water Law Section of the FAO Legislation Branch, is intended to explore in greater depth the value of legislation to the land use planning process. It is, on the one hand, an exploration of the ways in which legislation serves to provide the structural underpinnings for and connections between the technical disciplines which have long been associated with the land use planning effort.
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresjanvier, 2019Angola, Mozambique, Égypte, Botswana, Malawi, Rwanda, Mauritanie, Somalie, Ouganda, Mali, Burundi, Italie, République-Unie de Tanzanie, Soudan, Congo, Sénégal, Tchad, Namibie, Niger, Érythrée, Kenya
The habitat of tsetse fly (Glossina spp.) depends upon climatic conditions, host availability and land cover characteristics. In this paper, the Land Cover Classification System (LCCS), developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), is proposed as a tool to harmonize land cover mapping exercises carried out in the context of tsetse and trypanosomiasis (T&T) research and control.
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresjanvier, 2019Mozambique, Burkina Faso, Bénin, Nigéria, États-Unis d'Amérique, Kenya, Zambie, Somalie, Ouganda, Mali, Éthiopie, Italie, République-Unie de Tanzanie, Botswana, Ghana, Congo, Sénégal, Guinée, Soudan, Cameroun, République centrafricaine
Geospatial datasets and analysis techniques based on geographic information systems (GIS) have become indispensable tools in the planning, implementation and evaluation of a wide range of development programmes, including actions addressing sustainable agriculture and rural development. The growing volume of spatially explicit environmental information, combined with the widening utilization of GIS, allows ecological and socioeconomic factors to be integrated more fully into the decision-making process, thus laying the foundation for a holistic approach to development.
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresmai, 2018Rwanda, Égypte, Kenya, Afrique du Sud, Ouganda, Burundi, Italie, République-Unie de Tanzanie, République démocratique du Congo, Congo, Soudan du Sud, Soudan
This country profile describes the state of the water resources and water use, as well as the state of agricultural water management in Uganda. The aim of this report is to describe the particularities of the country and the problems met in the development of the water resources, and irrigation in particular.
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