Series: FAO Estudios legislativos

Una considerable aceleración en la revisión de las leyes forestales ha tenido lugar durante los últimos años en todo el mundo. Este estudio pretende identificar, sobre una base regional, las principales tendencias existentes en la legislación forestal. En el presente volumen, se han revisado leyes forestales de América Latina, América del Norte, Asia y el Pacífico; las de Africa y Europa serán objeto de un segundo volumen.

Series: Estudios FAO Producción y Protección vegetal

Esta obra contiene un conjunto de estudios fundamentales en la literatura sobre el nopal, "Opuntia ficus-indica" y otras especies del mismo género. El nopal representa una alternativa ecológica productiva para las regiones áridas y semiáridas del mundo. Especialistas y científicos reconocidos mundialmente exponen los conocimientos relacionados con este nuevo cultivo y sus diversos usos. Los 19 capítulos del libro tratan de la historia, importancia económica, agroecología y botánica del nopal.

Series: FAO Pesticide Disposal Series

The guidelines do not set out to provide all the information necessary for management and disposal operations, but strict adherence to the principles that they outline will definitely minimize the further accumulation of unwanted pesticides and the subsequent need for disposal.

Series: Integrated Crop Management

This document presents concepts and strategies to be recommended when formulating and co-ordinating agricultural development programmes in hilly areas of Central America. The emphasis is on cropping systems and conservation-effective land management practices achieved through a farmer-led or farmer-participatory approach.

Series: Gestión integrada de cultivos

Este documento presenta conceptos y estrategias para ser considerados cuando se formulen y coordinen programas de desarrollo agrícola y agricultura sostenible en zonas de ladera en América Central. Se pone énfasis en los sistemas de cultivos y prácticas eficientes de manejo conservacionista de suelos a las que se ha llegado a través de un enfoque participatorio directo con los agricultores.

Series: FAO Plant Production and Protection Papers

Planned conservation and utilization of local crop genetic resources is of prime importance for food security, as it permits small-scale farmers of developing countries to have permanent access to seed and planting material adapted to their region. Conservation of and access to these resources are most important in disaster-prone areas, as farmers in these regions often lose all of their seed stocks during disasters, either man-made or natural.

Series: FAO Plant Production and Protection Papers

One of the major challenges facing most countries in sub-Saharan Africa is the need to invest significant resources into strengthening their capacity to increase the availability of good-quality seeds of a wider range of plant varieties, as well as to contribute to the maximisation of both agrobiodiversity and productivity, in order to achieve national food security while reducing environmental degradation and depletion of natural resources.

Series: FAO Plant Production and Protection Papers

This document was prepared to emphasize the importance of high-quality and true-to-type seedlings as a component of integrated production and pest management (IPPM) for increased crop productivity. The text reviews the current technologies for the production of healthy and vigorous transplants including the use of available local materials and substrates. The manual aims at disseminating vegetable seedlings production technology as a means of improving cost-effectiveness in vegetable nursery management and promoting the use of improved vegetable cultivars.

Series: FAO Documentos técnicos de Pesca

Este documento trata principalmente de la aplicación del sistema de Análisis de Peligros y Puntos Críticos de Control (HACCP) en la industria pesquera. El documento revisa en detalle los peligros potenciales relativos a la salud pública y a la alteración relacionados con el pescado y los productos pesqueros, y considera la utilización del HACCP en diversos tipos de industrias del pescado. Contiene un capítulo que clarifica las limitaciones de la inspección clásica de los productos pesqueros y de los métodos de control de la calidad basados únicamente en el análisis de las muestras del producto final.

Series: FAO Documents techniques sur les pêches

Series: FAO Fisheries Technical Papers

Series: FAO Fisheries Technical Papers

Sharks! Who may fish them? How is the production of sharks and the trade in shark products monitored? The two volumes making up this report describe the population biology and fishery management of elasmobranchs in various parts of the world. Among other topics, fisheries administration, management objectives and national fisheries policies and planning processes are described in depth. The first part contains the analyses for the fisheries in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, Malaysia and northern Australia.