This paper was prepared under contract with the Food and Agricutlrue Organisation of the United Nations (FAO). The positions and opinions presented are those of the author alone, and are not intended to represent the views of FAO.

Aquaculture is equated with the reduction of poverty in discourse advanced by intergovernmental agencies such as FAO. This discourse demands support for the promotion small-scale aquaculture through project-based interventions. There is a lack of convincing empirical evidence to support the efficacy of development interventions of this type however. Meanwhile, huge increases in cultured freshwa...

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This paper explores the linkages between gender, local knowledge systems and agrobiodiversity for food security by using the case study of LinKS, a regional FAO project in Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Tanzania over a period of eight years and now concluded. The project aimed to raise awareness on how rural men and women use and manage agrobiodiversity, and to promote the importance of lo...

At the global level there is a huge challenge ahead to provide food for the increase in the world’s population which is projected by the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO, 2006) to rise from 6.5 billion in 2007 to 8.1 billion by 2025. Over the same time period it is projected that increasing wealth per capita will hasten further the current rapid transition to eating meat. ...

PROGRESSIVE CONTROL PATHWAY AND REGIONAL ROADMAPS TOWARDS A COMMON FRAMEWORK FOR LONG-TERM ACTION AGAINST FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE AT NATIONAL AND REGIONAL LEVELS Keith Sumption(1), Juan Lubroth(2), Giancarlo Ferrari(2), Carsten Potszch(1) & Joseph Domenech (2) (1) European Commission for the Control of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (EuFMD), FAO, Rome, Italy (2) EMPRES Animal Health, AGAH, FAO, Rome, I...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the performance of the FAO-AquaCrop model in winter wheat in the southern Loess Plateau of China. Multi-year field experimental data from 2004 and 2011 were used to calibrate and validate the model for simulating biomass, canopy cover (CC), soil water content, and grain yield under rainfed conditions. The model performance was evaluated using root mea...

ed from data published by the Fisheries and Aquaculture Department, FAO (2016)2 Genetic Resources...

OBJECTIVE The study is part of a project financed by the United Nations (FAO) and the Ministry of Education of Brazil (Fundação de Assistência ao Escolar) which intends to evaluate the nutritional status of public schools students in order to estimate, giving emphasis to geographical aspects, the magnitude and distribution of statural deficit of this population in the Paraíba State, Northeaster...