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Acknowledgments
The preparation of this publication has been a collaborative effort involving professionals
from within several departments of FAO, under the coordination of Vincent Gitz, Alexandre
Meybeck, Leslie Lipper, Cassandra
De Young and Susan Braatz, and with contributions from
Philippe Ankers, Aslihan Arslan, Nadine Azzu, Stephan Baas, Caterina Batello,
Julie Belanger,
Agnes Bernis-Fonteneau, Shakeel Bhatti, Sarah Brunel, Sally Bunning, Andrea Cattaneo,
Romina Cavatassi,
Mona Chaya, Remi Cluset, Keith Cressman, Toufic El-Asmar, Aziz Elbehri,
Jean-Marc Faures, Irene Hoffmann, Hideki Kanamaru, Rodica Leahu, Dan Leskien, Damiano
Luchetti,
Chikelu Mba, Annie Monard, Stefano Mondovi, Anne Mottet, William Murray,
Nicolas Picard, Eran Raizman,
Natalia Winder Rossi, Federico Spano, Henning Steinfield,
Alvaro Toledo and Julia Wolf.
Suzanne Redfern provided editorial support for the text and tables, and design; Fabio Ricci
for the figures.
The coordinating authors thank the following reviewers for their valuable
review and comments
of a pre-final draft of this publication: Modadugu Vijay Gupta, Sheryl Hendriks, Erda Lin,
Gerald C. Nelson and Shivaji Pandey. Responsibility with the final content will lies with
the authors.