The State of the World's Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture
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The State of the World's Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture

Managing Systems at Risk

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eBook - ePub

The State of the World's Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture

Managing Systems at Risk

About this book

The State of the World's Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture is FAO's first flagship publication on the global status of land and water resources. It is an 'advocacy' report, to be published every three to five years, and targeted at senior level decision makers in agriculture as well as in other sectors. SOLAW is aimed at sensitizing its target audience on the status of land resources at global and regional levels and FAO's viewpoint on appropriate recommendations for policy formulation. SOLAW focuses on these key dimensions of analysis: (i) quantity, quality of land and water resources, (ii) the rate of use and sustainable management of these resources in the context of relevant socio-economic driving factors and concerns, including food security and poverty, and climate change.

This is the first time that a global, baseline status report on land and water resources has been made. It is based on several global spatial databases (e.g. land suitability for agriculture, land use and management, land and water degradation and depletion) for which FAO is the world-recognized data source. Topical and emerging issues on land and water are dealt with in an integrated rather than sectoral manner. The implications of the status and trends are used to advocate remedial interventions which are tailored to major farming systems within different geographic regions.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9781849713276
eBook ISBN
9781136498879
Topic
Law
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. List of abbreviations
  9. List of Tables
  10. List of Boxes
  11. List of Figures
  12. List of Maps
  13. What SOLAW Says
  14. Executive Summary
  15. 1. Status And Trends In Land And Water Resources
  16. 2. Socio-Economic Pressures And Institutional Set-Up
  17. 3. Land and Water Systems at Risk
  18. 4. Technical Options for Sustainable Land and Water Management
  19. 5. Institutional Responses for Sustainable Land and Water Management
  20. 6. Conclusions and Main Policy Recommendations
  21. Annexes
  22. Glossary of terms and definitions used in this report
  23. Explanatory note for the global maps presented in this report
  24. References
  25. Index