The availability and quality of clean water in many regions of the world is more and more threatened by overuse, misuse and pollution. In this context, the relationship between forests and water must be accorded high priority. Forested catchments supply a high proportion of the water for…
Este informe presenta el seguimiento de la implementacion del plan de accion mundial para la conservación y utilización sostenible de los recursos fitogenéticos para la alimentación y la agricultura, es un análisis de la información aportada por técnicos y profesionales de diversas insittuciones…
El presente Acuerdo suscrito por los países que componen el ALBA contiene 10 artículos relacionados a la constitución de empresas grannacionales de alimentos.
To provide a quantitative spatial analysis of the riverscape (open-water bodies and their surrounding areas) of the Western Amazonian lowlands using a consistent surface of remotely sensed imagery. Taking into account the essential significance of fluvial environments for the Amazonian biota, we…
The conservation of individual plant and animal species has been advanced greatly by the World Conservation Union's (IUCN) development of objective, repeatable, and transparent criteria for assessing extinction risk, which explicitly separate the process of risk assessment from priority-…
A humanidade tem sido testemunha e participante nas múltiplas mudanças pelas quais a agricultura passou no decorrer dos séculos. Desde os primórdios desta antiga prática, o cultivo tem sido a espinha dorsal do desenvolvimento econômico de muitas sociedades e a principal fonte de preservação e…
Responsable de la investigación: Laura Soria. El acceso de las mujeres a los derechos democráticos no sólo trae consigo la posibilidad de elección de sus representantes, sino que tiende a modificar, o por lo menos cuestionar, las bases mismas del sistema democrático. Es aquí donde creemos que…
A Special Product (SP) is an agricultural product “out of the WTO” in that they are not subject to tariff reductions, i. e. Countries can keep the right to maintain protective tariffs on certain agricultural products that are essential for food security, rural development, and farmers’…
El año 2006 se caracterizó por la continuidad del ciclo expansivo de las economías andinas que continuaron beneficiándose de las favorables condiciones del escenario internacional, reveladas sobre todo en la creciente demanda de importaciones de la subregión. De acuerdo a estimaciones realizadas…
The present paper seeks to cover the key issues, trends, constraints, challenges, knowledge gaps and policy options on a range of dimensions of land access. Land access is broadly defined as the processes by which people individually or collectively gain rights and opportunities to occupy and…
To address the needs of individual regions, such as LAC, more detailed regional and sub regional strategies are needed to ensure that forestry contributes fully to the challenges of poverty, inequity, environmental degradation and sustainable development. This report presents such a strategy for…
The Parties have agreed to exchange experience and knowledge in territorial (land-use) planning in residential urban areas. Cooperation shall regard some cities in the Northern and Central parts of Venezuela and some suburban areas of Caracas.