FAO has as its mandate the raising of levels of nutrition and standards of living and ensuring humanity's freedom from hunger by promoting sustainable agricultural development and alleviating poverty. FAO is dedicated to promoting agriculture, nutrition, forestry, fisheries and rural development to achieve the World Food Summit goal of eradicating hunger. FAO provides advice and assistance to o...

Investigation of food and feeding of fishes has traditionally been an important field of activity in fisheries biology, but it is one in which there are great difficulties in correlating the results with the research made in the other fields (FAO, 1974). Investigations of the food of the fish cannot be considered in isolation but have to be discussed in relation to the whole marine environment,...

A. Defining gender “Gender refers not to male and female, but to masculine and feminine that is, to qualities or characteristics that society ascribes to each sex. People are born female or male, but learn to be women and men. Perceptions of gender are deeply rooted, vary widely both within and between cultures, and change over time. But in all cultures, gender determines power and resources fo...

Email: [email protected] Let’s start with the deniable truth—at present sustainable forestry is rare or localized. This is apparent when looking at global scales but also at regional and local scales. Globally, deforestation and land conversion continue. There is less forest each year (-5.2 million ha yr-1), and conversion of frontier (primary, or ancient) forests to second growth forests of shorter ...

This study set out to analyses rice total factor productivity in Nigeria ecological zones and the growth trend from 1996 to 2010. Statistical information on domestic and imported quantities of rice was obtained for 15 years (1996 to 2010) from the AGROSTAT system of the statistical division of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Federal Ministry of Agriculture statistical bulletins, Ce...

Lysimeter experiments were conducted on rice during rainy season (July±October) and sun ̄ower during summer seasons (March±June) in a set of two electronic weighing type lysimeters of 2 m 2 m 2 m size to measure the hourly evapotranspiration of these crops from 1994 to 1995 at Karnal, India. The average weekly ET of rice varied from <3 mm per day in the early growing period to >6.6 mm per day at...

The World Bank, in collaboration with the e-Agriculture community and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), is holding a series of two week online forums. These e-forums stem from the launch of the World Bank’s ICT in Agriculture e-Sourcebook (2011) and the growing demand for knowledge on how to use ICT to improve agricultural productivity and raise smallholder inco...

Why a Special World Heritage Focus on Forests? Forest ecosystems hold the vast majority of the world's terrestrial species. Ironically, these same ecosystems are under the greatest chronic pressure from human activities. The most important threat comes from permanent conversion to non-forest uses – typically agriculture. The FAO (2005A) calculates that since 1990, an average of neary 12.3 milli...

At its Sixth Session, the Commission “agreed to postpone any further development of the draft Code until after the current negotiations for the revision of the International Undertaking were over”. This document is provided for information of the Commission in the interim period, in view of the very rapid developments in this sector. The study is the responsibility of the author, and does not n...