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World food summit follow up draft strategy for agricultural development horizon 2010, Somalia

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World Food Summit

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

Irrigation scheme operation and maintenance

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Bart Snellen, W. (International Inst. for Land Reclamation and Improvement, Wageningen (Netherlands))

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FAO, Rome (Italy). Land and Water Development Div., International Inst. for Land Reclamation and Improvement, Wageningen (Netherlands

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)

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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Drainage of irrigated lands

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Ritzema, H., P.; Ksielik, R.,A.,L., International Institute for Land Reclamation and Improvement, Chanduvi F., FAO Land and Water Development Division

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome (Italy), International Institute for Land Reclamation and Improvement

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)

Statistics and Stochastic Processes in Hydrology

This publication is actually a series of lecture notes handouts in Statistics and stochastic proceses in hydrology. They were prepared by the author for presentation of lectures for the international course for hydrologists at the international Institute for Infrastructural, Hydraulic and Enviromental Engineering (IIIHEE) at Delft in the Netherlands.

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Hall, M. J.

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International Institute for Infrastructural, Hydraulic and Enviromental Engineering

Our land our future: A new approach to land use planning and management

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Sim D., Thomas G.

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

ERS radar data for operational land cover maping; An ESA/ESRIN-FAO pilot study for AFRICOVER

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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)

Bari water rehabilitation study Volume I Final report

This study to the rehabilitation of water supply in the Bari region was held by 2 ConsultantsSAWA (Netherlands) and 4 consultants, contracted by SPDS (Somalia). The study was on request of the European Union Somalia Unit. The main purpose of the study was to come to the formulation of two feasible urban and one rural water rehabilitation programme in the region, which can be financed through the EU NGO rehabilitation programme. The report gives a draft of the methodology used (Chapter 1), the context of Bari Region (Chapter 2), the available water resources (Chapter 3) and the economic feasibility (Chapter 4). Based on this information it comes to a philosophy and a plan for further water development (Chapter 5), and a selection of short term and long term projects. For these projects a general outline of the approach (Chapter 6) and the institutional aspects (Chapter 7) are given. Site reports and sketches of the villages and towns visited by the team are collected in a separate report, volume II.

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Lieshout R., SAWA, Bouman D., SAWA, Saleh S., SPDS, Habash M. S. A., Eng. Samanter, Ali M. A., Agriculture and Community Services, Mohamed S., SPDS

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SAWA, SPDS

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