| 301. FAO STATISTICAL DATABASE Development - Sustainability - Agriculture |
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| FAOSTAT is an on-line and multilingual databases currently containing over 1 million time-series records covering international statistics in the following areas: Production, Trade, Food Balance Sheets, fertilizer and pesticides, land use and irrigation, forest products, fishery products, population, agriculture machinery, food aid shipments http://apps.fao.org
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| Rainforest Action Network works to protect the Earth's rainforests and support the rights of their inhabitants through education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct action. Since it was founded in 1985, the Rainforest Action Network has been working to protect rainforests and the human rights of those living in and around those forests. From the beginning, RAN has played a key role in strengthening the worldwide rainforest conservation movement through supporting activists in rainforest countries as well as organizing and mobilizing consumers and community action groups throughout the United States. Our first challenge was to bring the plight of the rainforests to public attention through education, communication, and direct action. http://www.ran.org/
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| The Noise Pollution Clearinghouse is a national non-profit organization with extensive online noise related resources. The mission of the Noise Pollution Clearinghouse is to create more civil cities and more natural rural and wilderness areas by reducing noise pollution at the source. http://www.nonoise.org/
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| THE TECHNICAL Consultation on Decentralization (TCD) was sponsored by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ), the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and the World Bank (WB). The TCD brought together policy-makers, practitioners and academics from the developed and developing world to review and discuss the contribution of decentralized and participatory strategies to rural development. To achieve this goal the TCD was structured into working groups organized around selected themes. The TCD also included four presentations by key speakers and a poster session. http://www.fao.org/sd/rodirect/rofo0000.htm
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| The World Commission on Dams, comprising an international team of experts, is a focused, independent think tank set up and financed by aid agencies, industry, governments, and NGOs to look at the good, the bad and the ugly impacts of dams around the world. Established in 1998, the Commission's mandate is to research, peer review and write the most independent, authoritative and comprehensive cross-examination of dams and water and energy resource development ever undertaken http://www.dams.org/
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| Established in 1964 as a permanent intergovernmental body, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is the principal organ of the United Nations General Assembly dealing with trade, investment and development issues. http://www.unctad.org/
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| The International Labour Organization is the UN specialized agency which seeks the promotion of social justice and internationally recognized human and labour rights. It was founded in 1919 and is the only surviving major creation of the Treaty of Versailles, which brought the League of Nations into being; it became the first specialized agency of the UN in 1946. http://www.ilo.org/
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| The United Nations Volunteers programme (UNV) is the UN programme that supports human development globally by promoting volunteerism and by mobilizing volunteers. It is administered by UNDP and operates amidst growing recognition that volunteerism makes important contributions, economically and socially, to more cohesive societies by building trust and reciprocity among citizens. Every year some 5,000 UN Volunteers from more than 150 different nationalities actively support the programmes of the United Nations itself and almost all UN funds, programmes and specialized agencies. http://www.unv.org/
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| UNCHS (Habitat) was established in October 1978 as the lead agency within the United Nations system for coordinating activities in the field of human settlements. The mission of UNCHS (Habitat) is to promote socially and environmentally sustainable human settlements development and the achievement of adequate shelter for all. http://www.unchs.org/
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| The Foundation is a European Union body that was set up in 1975 to contribute to the planning and establishment of better living and working conditions. Achieving the European Union goal of improving living and working conditions will only be possible when the policy makers have good quality information. By monitoring, analysing and identifying the impact of changes in society, the Foundation aims to provide the data and knowledge needed to support action http://www.eurofound.ie/
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| This site is provided and maintained by the Secretariat of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, a Secretariat set up to undertake the implementation on the international level of the provisions of the CWC.
The Site is primarily intended for the National Authorities, which will be responsible for the national implementation of the CWC http://www.opcw.org/
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| The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) promotes women's empowerment and gender equality. It works to ensure the participation of women in all levels of development planning and practice, and acts as a catalyst within the UN system, supporting efforts that link the needs and concerns of women to all critical issues on the national, regional and global agenda. UNIFEM focuses its work at the country level within the context of the United Nations Resident Coordinator System. Playing a strong advocacy role, the Fund concentrates on fostering a multilateral policy dialogue on women's empowerment. http://www.unifem.undp.org/
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| Established in 1966 as a special purpose fund primarily for small-scale investment in the poorest countries, the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) has come in recent years through intense, necessary and far-reaching changes. Today, UNCDF works to help eradicate poverty through local development programmes and microfinance operations. Through its focus on two areas of concentration, UNCDF has strengthened its identity and competence. That was the principal conclusion of the 1999 external evaluation of the Fund, subsequently endorsed by its Executive Board in September 1999. http://www.uncdf.org/
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| This site is dedicated to providing information and resources on urban and regional planning and environmental issues. My objective is to contribute to our understanding of the world around us from a community planning perspective http://www3.sympatico.ca/david.macleod/HOME.HTM
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| The aim of the URGE project is to improve the provision of cities with green spaces, both qualitatively and quantitatively, thus enhancing the quality of life of the urban population and contributing to the sustainable development of European cities. One major objective is to increase the available knowledge of the complex interactions between nature, economy and social systems in urban environments, considering this as a premise to the development of modern strategies for the design and management of urban landscapes. http://www.urge-project.org/
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| The main objective of BUGS is to develop an assessment methodology for evaluating the use of green space and urban morphology as design tools in urban planning strategies. http://www.vito.be/bugs/index.htm
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| This is the electronic journal e design of "best practices" in building design, construction, and operation http://sustainable.state.fl.us/fdi/edesign/index.html
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| Tax World is provided as a public service to Internet users and its primary mission is providing links to tax information from state, federal, and international taxing authorities on the Internet. In addition to the practical tax information (tax forms, regulations, IRS code, etc.) Tax World provides users information regarding tax policy, history, and links to tax databases around the world. Tax World is funded by its creator and director, thus, the content of and links provided in Tax World are at the sole discretion of its creator and director. http://www.taxworld.org/
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| This site presents WHO's work to assist its Member States and their populations in achieving a sustainable basis for health for all by ensuring an environment that promotes health, and by making individuals and organizations aware of their responsibility for health and its environmental basis. This section contains information about health care waste management. http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/Environmental_sanit/health_care_waste.htm
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| Ecosustainable Hub's site is intended as our contribution towards ecology, environment and sustainability by providing a one-stop connection to resources and tools that are made available to visitors and researchers without charge. It is also intended to provide a means of introducing Eco Sustainable Developments to a broader audience. http://www.ecosustainable.com.au/
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| This is the site of Enviro-cure Medical services which contains information on indoor environmental conditions which can be the source for many, severe diseases. “It is also the link between the source and the cure”. http://www.aenvirocure.com/triggers.php
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| Habitat for Humanity International
is a nonprofit, nondenominational
Christian housing organization http://www.habitat.org/
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| This site presents WHO's work to assist its Member States and their populations in achieving a sustainable basis for health for all by ensuring an environment that promotes health, and by making individuals and organizations aware of their responsibility for health and its environmental basis. This section contains information about climate and health. http://www.who.int/peh/climate/climate_and_health.htm
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| This website Study of Architecture at CloseRange contains a lot of important and interesting links on architecture. http://www.closerange.com/links/eokarcht.htm
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| The National Soil Erosion Research Laboratory (NSERL) of the United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service is the focal point for the U.S. Government's national research program in soil erosion by water. http://topsoil.nserl.purdue.edu/nserlweb/
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