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Reports & Research
March 2016

This paper summarizes the good practices by nine selected OECD countries that seek to promote responsible foreign investment in developing country agriculture, primarily by investors in their territory or jurisdiction. The study provides examples of the increasing trend of home countries in…

Legislation
March 2016

Cette ordonnance s’inscrit dans le chantier de simplification des procédures administratives entrepris par le Gouvernement pour faciliter la vie des entreprises. Elle comporte deux parties. La première renforce la coordination des procédures d’urbanisme, qui relèvent le plus souvent des…

Journal Articles & Books
February 2016

This guide explores the legal dimensions of responsible governance of tenure. It supports the application of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure for Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security at the national level. The guide addresses the…

Journal Articles & Books
February 2016

TTI disseminates current information on all aspects of tsetse and trypansomosis research and control to institutions and invididuals involved in the problems of African trypanosomosis. This services forms an integral part of the Programme Against African Trypanosomosis (PAAT).

Policy Papers & Briefs
February 2016

Four years since the Voluntary Guidelines were endorsed by the Committee on World Food Security as the global consensus on improving tenure, their principles and processes are inspiring people around the world to take action. With wide ownership by governments, civil society and the private…

Reports & Research
February 2016

L’agriculture française affiche des résultats insatisfaisants : un emploi qui diminue, des revenus faibles dans certaines activités, un environnement qui se dégrade de façon patente et une performance commerciale qui s’érode. Dans cette Note du CAE, les trois auteurs Jean‐Christophe Bureau,…

Journal Articles & Books
January 2016

The purpose of this paper is examine the notion of tenure in connection with water resources and to explore whether the concept of water tenure has the potential to make a useful contribution towards resolving the world’s water resources challenges. It seeks to provide answers to the following…

Journal Articles & Books
January 2016

The Land Tenure Journal is a peer-reviewed, open-access flagship journal of the Climate, Energy and Tenure Division (NRC) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The Land Tenure Journal, launched in early 2010, is a successor to the Land Reform, Land Settlement and…

Regulations
January 2016

Le présent décret fixe les conditions dans lesquelles les experts forestiers figurant sur la liste mentionnée à l’article L. 171-1 du code rural et de la pêche maritime, les organisations de producteurs du secteur forestier reconnues par l’autorité administrative dans les conditions prévues à l’…

Journal Articles & Books
December 2015

Artificial neural networks (ANN) are nonlinear models widely investigated in hydrology due to their properties of universal approximation and parsimony. Their performance during the training phase is very good, and their ability to generalize can be improved by using regularization methods such…