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While aimed primarily at policy-makers in Kenya, the guide is also of use to decision-makers at institutional and policy levels in other countries of Eastern and Central Africa. It will help further the realisation of the potato's full potential as a high-value crop in response to emerging opportunities, such as changes in consumption pattern and the resulting need for value addition due to rapid urbanisation, and to potential threats.

The AQUASTAT Programme was initiated with a view to presenting a comprehensive picture of water resources and irrigation in the countries of Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean and providing systematic, up-to-date and reliable information on water for agriculture and rural development. This presents the results of the most recent survey carried out in the 22 countries of the Southern and Eastern Asia region, and analyses the changes ...

Through its disaster risk reduction (DRR) activities, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) seeks to protect livelihoods from shocks, to make food production systems more resilient and more capable of absorbing the impact of, and recovering from, disruptive events. Disaster risk reduction protects development investments in the agriculture, livestock, fisheries and forestry sectors, helping the world's most vulnerab...

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Following up on one of the recommendations of the 2009 FAO/WHO expert meeting, this report reviews national and international activities on the risk analysis of nanomaterials in the food and agriculture sectors that have been carried out since the meeting. It presents national and international risk assessment and risk management approaches that identify and implement strategies to address potential hazards associated with the use of nanotechn...

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The workshop achieved three objectives: created awareness and initiated capacity building through a technical seminar on basic concepts and emerging issues concerning spatial planning for marine capture fisheries and aquaculture, presented the results and analysis of the RECOFI regional spatial planning for marine capture fisheries and aquaculture questionnaire survey, and finalised a Proposal for a Regional programme for Implementing a Strate...

This Report presents the analytical framework developed by the BEFS project which examines the relationship between food security and bioenergy. The report also provides an overview of the BEFS tool box used to carry out the quantitative analysis on the dynamics of the bioenergy and food security interfaces.

The objective of this expert consultation was to exchange experiences with data collection and analysis for the assessment and monitoring of salinity and sodicity, with particular emphasis on practical applications at local, national, regional and global levels. Abstracts of the papers presented are included in this report, while full papers are included in the accompanying CD.

A manual for fisheries biologists in the field to use along with GIS software, explaining GIS in a way that is understandable to non-GIS users, has not been produced until now. This manual has been written to overcome this knowledge-gap, as a "do-it-yourself-manual” giving a short introduction to GIS software and its applications in fishery science.

This document contains the report of the session adopted by the Sub-Committee. - Ce document contient le rapport de la session tel qu'adopté par le Sous-Comité. - El presente documento contiene el informe de la sesión adoptado por el Subcomité.

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Assesses the nature and the extent of vulnerability among rural households in Tanzania with a particular focus on smallholder cash crop growers though exploring all risks, including the decline in commodity prices. It further explores the potential role for market based insurance schemes, such as commodity price and weather based insurance, to mitigate household vulnerability.

Contains the report of the session adopted by the Sub-Committee. They approved the draft terms of reference for an advisory working group on aquatic genetic resources and technologies and the draft evaluation framework assessing conformity of public and private certification schemes with the FAO technical guidelines on aquaculture certification.

Contains the report of the session adopted by the Sub-Committee. They approved the draft terms of reference for an advisory working group on aquatic genetic resources and technologies and the draft evaluation framework assessing conformity of public and private certification schemes with the FAO technical guidelines on aquaculture certification.

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Provides guidelines to improve understanding of the factors that facilitate and/or hamper the implementation of safety and quality improvements on the part of fruit and vegetable producers, especially small-scale ones, and also of the need to propose integrated solutions that take account of the producers' technical, administrative and economic capacities.

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