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Journal Articles & Books
December 2015
Pakistan

The Indus Basin Irrigation System suffers significant inequity in access to surface water across its millions of users. Information, i.e., monitoring and reporting of water availability, may be of value in improving conditions across the basin, and we investigated this via an experimental game of water distribution in Punjab, Pakistan.

Conference Papers & Reports
December 2015
Turkey
Pakistan
Latvia

In agrarian economies like Pakistan, agriculture structure especially, pattern of ownership of land and size distribution are crucial indicator and principal form of wealth and political power. The present study represents an attempt to look in current structure of land holdings, land tenure, and land fragmentation by using Pakistan agriculture census report 2010.

Conference Papers & Reports
December 2015
Pakistan
Southern Asia

Report on application of SWAT model for soil conservation planning. A study was undertaken to evaluate the soil erosion parameters using semi-distributed
basin scale SWAT model in different watersheds of Chakwal and Attock districts. The
model was calibrated and validated for a small watershed without any soil conservation

Journal Articles & Books
December 2015
Pakistan

This study was performed to investigate the potential health risk of heavy metals (HMs) through consumption of market food crops (MFCs) in the Sialkot and Gujranwala districts, Pakistan. Both study areas are located in industrialized regions of the country, where atmospheric pollution is a problem and irrigation of food crops is mostly practiced on the use of wastewater/contaminated water.

Reports & Research
December 2015
Algeria
Egypt
Mauritania
Cyprus
Iran
Ethiopia
Pakistan
Jordan
Morocco
Yemen
South Africa
Turkey
Oman
Italy
Tunisia
South Sudan
Sudan
Saudi Arabia
Lebanon

Meeting Name: Near East Forestry and Range Commission (NEFRC)
Meeting symbol/code: FO:NEFRC/2015/2/Rev.1 (English only)
Session: Sess. 22

Journal Articles & Books
December 2015
Kenya
Burkina Faso
Nicaragua
Vietnam
Somalia
Canada
India
Senegal
Pakistan
Niger

Questo libro racconta la storia dei sette decenni della FAO, i suoi protagonisti e i fatti salienti. Dall’archivio storico della FAO sono state selezionate fotografie inedite, in bianco e nero, dei primi anni dell'Organizzazione, con le quali è stato possibile realizzare un’avvincente raccolta di immagini.

Journal Articles & Books
December 2015
Nigeria
Ukraine
China
Belarus
Indonesia
Australia
Austria
Congo
Guinea
Pakistan
Kenya
Liberia
Uganda
South Sudan
Sudan
Sri Lanka

Este número doble de Unasylva busca desentrañar las complejas relaciones que median entre bosques, árboles y desastres, y examinar las mejores formas en que los bosques y árboles pueden gestionarse tanto para resistir a las conmociones como para proteger contra ellas.

Journal Articles & Books
December 2015
Mozambique
Americas
Grenada
Haiti
Jamaica
Saint Lucia
Guyana
United States of America
China
Japan
Malaysia
Nepal
Pakistan
Sri Lanka
Georgia
Denmark
Italy
Netherlands
Australia
New Zealand

This thematic issue on land tenure and disaster risk management (DRM) stems from the recent work done at FAO on normative aspects of land tenure governance that address natural disasters through the DRM framework.

Journal Articles & Books
December 2015
Egypt
Bangladesh
United States of America
Zambia
Turkey
Zimbabwe
China
Indonesia
Malawi
Pakistan
Morocco
Philippines
Mexico
Uganda
Madagascar
Uzbekistan
Myanmar
Argentina
India
Kazakhstan
Paraguay
Tajikistan
Brazil

FAO’s best-selling 2011 publication, <i>Save and Grow</i>, proposed a new paradigm of agriculture, one that is both highly productive and environmentally sustainable. This new book looks at the application of “Save and Grow” practices and technologies to production of the world’s key food security crops – maize, rice and wheat.