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The FAO Statistical Yearbook presents a visual synthesis of the major trends and factors shaping the global food and agricultural landscape and their interplay with broader environmental, social and economic dimensions. It aims to be a unique reference point on the state of world food and agriculture for policy-makers, donor agencies, researchers and analysts, as well as the general public:The…

Bonn has succeeded over the past decade to shape for itself a new profile as the German United Nations City and a centre of international dialogue on key issues of the future. A visible symbol of this development is the UN Campus. In order to establish a unified approach for all our libraries at the campus we worked on a model presenting our needs and views. The model has been developed following…

The goals and objectives of the workshop were: - Identifying dominant land degradation factors in the Mediterranean region, assessing their extent and intensity throughout the region and at each participating country of the Project; - Identifying major gaps in information and knowledge base to reach a proper regional understanding of sustainable land management; -…

A case is made in this paper for investing in tropical and sub-tropical drylands, in poor or middle-income countries. These environments, their people, and their production systems have long been regarded as risky investments. This is because rural people in drylands face many challenges: •Low agricultural productivity is caused by low rainfall, high evaporation and…

Does desertification impact differently upon women than upon men? Would strategies to combat desertification and mitigate the impact of drought look differently if developed by women than if developed by men alone? Or would strategies developed by men and women together be more effective than strategies developed by men only? The Inter-Governmental Negotiating Committee (INCD)…

In West Africa, desertification threatens the living conditions of over 250 million people. The results of projects to combat desertification undertaken over the last 40 years or so have been mixed. One reason for this is probably that technical or technological approaches have taken precedence over the sociological approach. This manual is intended to bring the reader back to the social…