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The grass is greener: rehabilitating the Syrian BadiaThe Syrian steppe or ‘Badia’ covers 10 million hectares of central and eastern Syria. Characterized by poor soils and low rainfall, it is suitable only for grazing by small ruminants, equines and camels.

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 YANG Youlin
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Tel: +66 2 288 2559
Email: youlin.unescap@un.org

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23.05.2013
The International Workshop on Desertification Combating and Sustainable Socio-Economic Developments
Discussing about combating desertification experiecnces and lessons from a range of programmes > more
23.05.2013
The 2nd Training Course for Supporting Sand Source Control Programme
Focusing on improving 2nd phase of the SSCP by sharing experience of SGAP > more
22.05.2013
OCHA Report on Drought situation in Republic of the Marshall Islands
In order to cope with the emergency of drought, cooperations among related organizations have been established with insufficent information > more
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Addressing desertification, land degradation and drought in Asia

Desertification manifests itself in many different forms across the vast Asian continent. Out of a total land area of 4.3 billion hectares, Asia contains some 1.7 billion hectares of arid, semi-arid, and dry sub-humid land reaching from the Mediterranean coast to the shores of the Pacific.
 

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Asia: Regional cooperation

The Convention‘s Regional Implementation Annex for Asia recognizes these particular conditions. It calls for activities at the national, subregional, and regional level in the form of coordinated and integrated action programmes.

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