Résultats de la recherche

1. Library Resource

   

   Climate change in the African drylands: Options and opportunities for adaptation and mitigation

   Manuels et directives

   Rapports et recherches

   novembre, 2009

   Global

   Terres, changement climatique et environnement

   Pâturages, terres arides et pastoralisme

   changement climatique

   environnement

   espace foncier

   dégradation des terres

   pauvreté

   développement rural

   population rurale

   Gestion foncière durable

   utilisation durable des terres

   The drylands of Africa, exclusive of hyper-arid zones, occupy about 43 per cent of the continent, and are home to a rapidly growing population that currently stands at about 325 million people. Dry zones, inclusive of hyper-arid lands, cover over 70 per cent of the continent’s terrestrial surface. Outside of the cities many dryland inhabitants are either pastoralists, sedentary or nomadic, or agro-pastoralists, combining livestock-rearing and crop production where conditions allow.