Small-scale capture fisheries: a global overview with emphasis on developing countries: a preliminary report of the Big Numbers Project

The report gives a summary of the results to-date of case studies carried out in a selected number of countries which provides a first analysis of the differences between marine and inland small and large scale fisheries in developing countries. It has been prepared for the conference ôSecuring Sustainable Small-scale Fisheries: Bringing together responsible fisheries and social developmentö in Bangkok, Thailand, on 13-17 October 2008 and is intended for policy and decision makers and others with an interest in sustainable fisheries and poverty alleviation.Artisanal fishing, Small scale fisheries

Exploitation Perspective of the Antarctic Krill Resources

Estimates of the magnitude and commercial viability of the Antarctic krill resource. Agenda item presented at TAC Seventh Meeting, February 1974

Forest Genetic Resources

FAO Forestry Department summary of the development of the Global Programme for Improved Use of Forest Genetic Resources, including a proposal for a CGIAR contribution to it and an illustrative IBPGR project. A covering TAC secretariat note solicits guidance for the IBPGR on the relative importance of these activities in the IBPGR program. Agenda document presented at the fifteenth meeting of TAC, January-February 1976

Commission on Plant Genetic Resources, Third Session, Rome, 17-21 April 1989: IBPGR Activities

FAO overview of the origins of IBPGR, its relationship with the FAO, and division of function between it and the Commission on Plant Genetic Resources. The paper describes IBPGR's mandate, its interaction with commodity-oriented IARCs, and the roles, organization, and supporting activities of IBPGR's field and research programs. Prepared for the third session of the Commission on Plant Genetic Resources in Rome, April 1989. One of three documents from the Commission meeting made available as background at the CGIAR meeting, May-June 1989

Genetically modified organisms, consumers, food safety and the environment

35 pages.Discusses the ethical issues of genetically-engineered foods with respect to consumer health, the food supply, and the environment

Report of the Commission on Plant Genetic Resources, Third Session, Rome, 17-21 April 1989

Report of the third session of the FAO Commission on Plant Genetic Resources (CPGR) held in Rome from April 17-21, 1989, including the report of the third meeting of the Working Group on Plant Genetic Resources held three days prior. Of particular interest to the CGIAR were the discussions of the role of IBPGR and its relationship to FAO in both the Working Group (pages 33-34) and the Commission (pages 14-17). One of three documents on the Commission meeting made available as background at the CGIAR meeting, May-June 1989. Appendix C containing the list of participants in the Commission meeting is omitted from the file

Discrimination at Work: The Americas

Fact sheet on discrimination in the Americas, prepared by the ILO

Comparison of Medicine Availability Measurements at Health Facilities: Evidence from Service Provision Assessment Surveys in Five Sub-Saharan African Countries.

With growing emphasis on health systems strengthening in global health, various health facility assessment methods have been used increasingly to measure medicine and commodity availability. However, few studies have systematically compared estimates of availability based on different definitions. The objective of this study was to compare estimates of medicine availability based on different definitions. A secondary data analysis was conducted using data from the Service Provision Assessment (SPA) - a nationally representative sample survey of health facilities - conducted in five countries: Kenya SPA 2010, Namibia SPA 2009, Rwanda SPA 2007, Tanzania SPA 2006, and Uganda SPA 2007. For 32 medicines, percent of facilities having the medicine were estimated using five definitions: four for current availability and one for six-month period availability. 'Observed availability of at least one valid unit' was used as a reference definition, and ratios between the reference and each of the other four estimates were calculated. Summary statistics of the ratios among the 32 medicines were calculated by country. The ratios were compared further between public and non-public facilities within each country. Across five countries, compared to current observed availability of at least one valid unit, 'reported availability without observation' was on average 6% higher (ranging from 3% in Rwanda to 8% in Namibia), 'observed availability where all units were valid' was 11% lower (ranging from 2% in Tanzania to 19% in Uganda), and 'six-month period availability' was 14% lower (ranging from 5% in Namibia to 25% in Uganda). Medicine availability estimates vary substantially across definitions, and need to be interpreted with careful consideration of the methods used

International Action on Discrimination

Timeline of action in support of fundamental right to non discrimination in the workplace, taken by international organizations such as the ILO and the United Nations between 1919 and 2001

Socioeconomic Aspects of International Agricultural Research

Document discussing the requirements for socioeconomic research at IARCs and how they might be fulfilled; identification of constraints to the adoption of the results of this research and how they may be addressed; criteria for priority setting and identification of existing research gaps; the possibility of establishing an international service to complement and coordinate socioeconomic research across institutions. Annex summarizing FAO's existing socioeconomic research activities. Agenda item presented at TAC Fifth Meeting, January - February 1973