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Report of Lower Juba Valley Exploratory Mission

Objectives of Mission to Lower Juba Valley: 1.To visit critical flood prone areas along the Juba River, assess the present state of the flood protection structures and to explore and identify potential quick impact and high priority flood protection projects2.To meet with local communities, local authorities, political faction leaders, UN Agencies, NGOs and discuss priority needs as perceived by the local communities concerned3.To make report of findings available to donors, UN agencies and NGOs and try tomotivate them fund specific projects considered to be feasible.

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Elias Habte-Selassie, UNDOS, Marai, R., WFP, Gahnook, A. A., COSVADA

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United Nations Development Office for Somalia

Planning for Sustainable Use of Land Resources:Towards a new approach

This publication clarifies issues and emerging concepts relating to a new integrated and holistic approach to land use planning in line with the needs of Chapter 10 (Integrated Approach to the Planning and Management of Land Resources) of Agenda 21 of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). Definitions of land, natural resources and the various types of planning are presented and discussed. The paper introduced elements to be considered, such as land tenure issues, stakeholders, land qualities and sustainability indicators, together with the relationship between rural and urban planning. A planning sequence is briefly outlinedit begins with definition of objectives and includes the development of a framework for decision-making, the development of information databases and tools and multiple goal analysis. Finally the institutional aspects of planning and implementation are briefly discussed.

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

Flora of Somalia, Volume 4- Angiospermae (Hydrocharitaceae - Pandanaceae)

The aim of the project is to cover all vascular plants known to occur in Somalia, and establish a foundation for all future plant related work in the country. This fourth volume (The second one to appear in a planned series of four ) covers the monocotyledons. With this volume we get for the first time a detailed picture of those grasses, sedges, palms, sea grasses, lilies, e.t.c. that grow in Somalia. 585 species are treated, 50 of which have been described as new wthin the project. A number of species additional to volume 1 are also included in the project (extract from the books abstract)

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