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Soil Resource Management and Conservation Service, FAO Land and Water Development Division

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome (Italy)

Land husbandry: Components and strategy

The author presents a personal and intentionally which a small rural community (a family, a ward, a confrontational point of view, offering a new and more constructive approach to the problems small farmers face in their battle with the degradation of their land. This is not a manual with clear-cut remedies for each and every erosion problem, but a work that should allow research experts, teachers and agronomists in the field to appreciate differences in situations, diagnose the causes of crises, and propose a range of technical solutions from village, a slope., a hillside or a micro-watershed) can choose the technological package best suited to its particular needs. Rather more instruction-oriented material for training extension agents

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Roose Eric, ORSTOM , Montepellier (France)

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome (Italy)

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World Food Summit

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome (Italy)

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Martin Herzog

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Sir M MacDonald and Partners Limited

Guidelines for Land-use Planning

Land-use planning is sometimes misunderstood as being a process where planners tell people what to do. In this publication, land-use planning means the systematic assessment of physical, social and economic factors in such a way as to encourage and assist land users in selecting options that increase their productivity, are sustainable and meet the needs of society.

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome (Italy)

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Steinfield, H., Haan S., Blackburn H.

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European Commission, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome (Italy)

Trocaire intervention on agriculture,environment and sustainable natural resource management in Bullahawa -Dolow, Gedo region, Somalia

This is a report on Trocaire international- Somalia Programme's interventions in Bullahawa-Doolow, Gedo Region Somalia. The report is an evaluation of the programme performance (1993 to May 1996) and an assessment of community needs and plan of action in management of land and water resources for the period between mid 1996 to 1998.

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Jalie, T.,H., UNEP

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Trocaire Somalia Programme

Agro-ecological Zoning; Guidelines

The procedures described in this publication are intended as optional guidelines to assist people throughout the world but particularly in developing countries to improve their own evaluations of their land and water resources and their own decisions on their use. Users' records and annotated experiences with the contents of the guidelines, comments on their usefulness and applicability and suggestions for improvements will be welcome to enable a future re-issue to be upgraded in the light of experience.

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome (Italy)

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Calabresi,G.,, ESA, Juerg Litchtenegger

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European Space Agency, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome (Italy)

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