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  1. Library Resource
    Drought risk management: Practitioner's perspectives from Africa and Asia cover image
    Manuels et directives
    janvier, 2012
    Afrique, Asie

    The Africa–Asia Drought Risk Management Peer Assistance Project seeks to facilitate the sharing of knowledge and technical cooperation among drought-prone countries in Africa and Asia and thus to promote best practices in drought risk management (DRM) for development in the two regions. In order to establish a baseline to guide this activity, the United Nations Development Programme Drylands Development Centre (UNDP DDC) undertook a stocktaking exercise between March and June 2011 on drought impacts, causes, trends and solutions in Africa and Asia.


  2. Library Resource
    Gender and desertification cover image
    Documents de politique et mémoires
    janvier, 2012
    Global

    The range of measures often emphasized in gendered efforts to reverse desertification and land degradation and mitigate the effects of drought (DLDD) include improving the participation of women in decision-making, building the capacity of women’s organizations, eliminating illiteracy among women, minimizing the heavy workload on women and eliminating gender disparities in employment and in the access to and ownership of resources. This fact sheet draws attention to the complex and evolving nature of gender issues pertaining to drylands women.

  3. Library Resource
    Water scarcity and desertification cover image
    Documents de politique et mémoires
    janvier, 2012
    Global

    The challenges and threats of water scarcity to dryland populations are set to increase in magnitude and scope. As the world’s population has swollen to well over 6 billion people, some countries have already reached the limits of their water resources. With the existing climate change scenario, almost half the world’s population will be living in areas of high water stress by 2030, including between 75 million and 250 million people in Africa. In addition, water scarcity in some arid and semi-arid places will displace between 24 million and 700 million people (WWDR 2009).

  4. Library Resource
    Conserving Dryland Biodiversity cover image
    Articles et Livres
    Rapports et recherches
    janvier, 2012
    Global

    Dryland biodiversity is of tremendous global importance, being central to the well-being and development of millions of people in developing countries. In June 2012, at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (or “Rio+20”), global leaders from governments and civil society reaffirmed the intrinsic value of biological diversity and recognised the severity of global biodiversity loss and degradation of ecosystems. Although drylands were implicitly recognised, there continues to be inadequate attention to this major biome that covers such a vast part of our world’s terrestrial surface.

  5. Library Resource
    The Rio Conventions: Action on Gender cover image
    Rapports et recherches
    janvier, 2012
    Global

    The year 2012 marks the twentieth anniversary of the Rio Earth Summit, which resulted in the establishment of the three Rio Conventions: the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD ) and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC ).


  6. Library Resource
    The Rio Conventions: Action on Forests cover image
    Rapports et recherches
    janvier, 2012
    Global

    The importance of forests in climate change, biodiversity and desertification/land degradation


    Forests cover approximately 30 per cent of the Earth’s land surface and provide important ecosystem goods and services, including food, fodder, water, shelter, nutrient cycling, air purification, and cultural and recreational amenities. Forests also store carbon, provide habitat for a wide range of species and help alleviate land degradation and desertification.


  7. Library Resource
    The Rio Conventions: Action on Adaptation cover image
    Rapports et recherches
    janvier, 2012
    Global

    The earth’s climate is changing at a rate unprecedented in recent human history and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. The impacts and risks associated with this are global, geographically diverse and increasingly being felt across a range of systems and sectors essential for human livelihoods and well-being. The more severe and far-reaching the impacts of climate change are, the greater the loss of species will be, and the greater the deterioration of drylands and the risk of desertification and land degradation around the world will be.

  8. Library Resource
    Building a more sustainable world through education cover image
    Rapports et recherches
    janvier, 2012
    Global

    We can no longer turn a blind eye to urgent sustainable development challenges such as climate change, the food crisis, disappearing biodiversity and the depletion of natural resources. A way to rise to these challenges is through Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). ESD is a dynamic concept that aims to enable people of all ages and from all walks of life to pursue and benefit from a sustainable future.

  9. Library Resource
    Desertification: a visual synthesis 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.

  10. Library Resource
    Zero Net Land Degradation: A Sustainable Development Goal for Rio+20 (Full Paper) cover image

    To secure the contribution of our planet’s land and soil to sustainable development, including food security and poverty eradication

    Documents de politique et mémoires
    mai, 2012
    Global

    Land is our natural ally. But the natural conditions of land and soils are not eternal, and must be protected. Soil is the most significant geo-resource we have for ensuring water, energy and food security for present and future generations. Healthy soils are also vital for building resilience and adapting to climate change.


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