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...

Information on fruits and vegetables consumption in Brazil in the three levels of dietary data was analyzed and compared. Data about national supply came from Food Balance Sheets compiled by the FAO; household availability information was obtained from the Brazilian National Household Budget Survey (HBS); and actual intake information came from a large individual dietary intake survey that was ...

Enabling environments for agribusiness and agro-industries development Regional and country perspectives The designations employed and the presentation of material in this information product do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) concerning the legal or development status of any country, territory, ...

This paper examines and evaluates the integrated use of satellite remote sensing and meteorological data for estimating crop water requirements over agricultural areas of Cyprus. Intended purpose of this project is to estimate evapotranspiration using modeling techniques, satellite and meteorological data for monitoring irrigation demand. ETc was calculated with the FAO Penman-Monteith method b...

Turkey’s marine fisheries catches were estimated for the 1950-2010 time period using a reconstruction approach, which estimated all fisheries removals, including unreported landings, recreational landings and discards. We added these estimates to the ‘official’ data, as reported in TURKSTAT, which are also available from the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The total rec...

Remote sensing can assist in improving the estimation of the geographical distribution of evapotranspiration, and consequently water demand in large cultivated areas for irrigation purposes and sustainable water resources management. In the direction of these objectives, the daily actual evapotranspiration was calculated in this study during the summer season of 2001 over the Thessaly plain in ...

Tropical forests have been recognized to play a multi-functional role by providing both goods (timber, food, medicine, etc.) and services, including recreational and spiritual benefits and climate regulation, making human life better [1,2]. The international debate has paid high attention to the potential of NTFPs in supporting livelihoods and forest conservation. The article by Peters et al. [...