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  1. Library Resource
    Manuels et directives
    juillet, 2009
    Kenya, Afrique orientale

    This paper describes a novel effort at developing index-based insurance for locationaveraged livestock mortality as a means to fill an important void in the risk management instruments available to protect the main asset of pastoralists in the arid and semi-arid lands of Kenya, where insurance markets are effectively absent and uninsured risk exposure is a main cause of the existence of poverty traps.

  2. Library Resource
    Manuels et directives
    septembre, 2012
    Cambodge, Asie

    Commune Agroecosystems Analysis (CAEA) is a participatory analysis methodology used by the Department of Agricultural Extension to identify and prioritize agricultural development needs at the commune level. This manual provides a step-by-step procedure to implement CAEA

  3. Library Resource
    Manuels et directives
    décembre, 2016
    Afrique, Afrique orientale, Kenya, Malawi, République-Unie de Tanzanie, Ghana

    This guide presents a step-by-step approach in using a participatory mapping method with community members to identify and map ecosystem services and changes in their supply across multiuse agricultural landscapes. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs), government agencies and researchers can use this approach to learn from communities about how they use and access natural resources.

  4. Library Resource
    Global Drylands: A UN system-wide response cover image
    Manuels et directives
    Rapports et recherches
    octobre, 2011
    Global

    More than two billion people depend on the world’s arid and semi-arid lands. Preventing land degradation and supporting sustainable development in drylands has major implications for food security, climate change and human settlement. This report, issued at the beginning of the United Nations Decade for Deserts and the Fight against Desertification, sets out a shared strategy by UN agencies to rise to the challenge of addressing the special needs of these vital zones.


  5. Library Resource
    The Forgotten Billion: MDG achievement in the Drylands cover image
    Manuels et directives
    Articles et Livres
    août, 2011
    Global

    As the world reviews its progress in tackling global poverty and achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), drylands can no longer be ignored. Drylands account for more than a third of the world’s land surface and more than 2 billion of its people. Yet for too long, drylands and their inhabitants have been neglected in development processes.


  6. Library Resource
    Combating Desertification and Land Degradation: Proven Practices from Asia and the Pacific cover image
    Manuels et directives
    Articles et Livres
    octobre, 2011
    Asie

    Asia and the Pacific, for the purposes of this book, encompasses a vast territory extending from Mongolia in the north to New Zealand in the south; from the Cook Islands in the east to Kuwait in the west (Map 1). The environmental diversity of Asia and the Pacific is therefore vast, and is contrasted by the region’s coldest and hottest deserts, verdant tropical rainforests, extensive steppe, desert steppe, grassland and rangelands, mountains and plains.

  7. Library Resource
    Highlands and Drylands Mountains, a source of resilience in arid regions cover image
    Manuels et directives
    Articles et Livres
    janvier, 2011
    Global

    Dryland mountains are among the least-known environments in the world, and certainly one of the most overlooked by decision- and policy-makers.


    Dryland mountains have an outstanding strategic value. They act as water towers for surrounding dry lowland areas, as shown by the examples of the Rocky Mountains of North America, the Central Andes, the mountains of the Mediterranean Basin, the Sahara and Sub-Saharan Africa, West Asia, and Central Asia


  8. Library Resource
    Desertification: une synthèse visuelle cover image
    Manuels et directives
    Articles et Livres
    janvier, 2012
    Global

    This book is intended as a basic information kit that tells “the story” of desertification, land degradation and drought at the global scale, together with a comprehensive set of graphics. The book indicates trends as they have taken place over the last decades, combining and connecting issues, and present priorities.

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