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This Good Practice Guidance on Strategic Objective Three, to mitigate, adapt to, and manage the effects of drought in order to enhance resilience of vulnerable populations and ecosystems, was prepared to support Parties to report on the progress made towards Strategic Objective 3, which has the aim of mitigating, adapting to, and managing the effects of drought in order to enhance resilience…

The highlights: Land degradation is a most frequent driver of SDS from playa surfaces. Dust from playa sources can salinize and pollute down-wind soils, harm human health. Sustainable land and water management (SLWM) is key to mitigate SDS from playas.SLWM measures needs to be deployed synergistically in landscape. Sand and Dust Storms (SDS) are a natural phenomenon with important…

The highlights: Monitoring of land degradation and desertification over Thar Desert. Data integration at spatial scale for evaluation of ESA. Temporal observation of ESA indicators to measure the desertification. Study assist to concern authority for better land management. Globally, desertification is a challenging issue today. As per United Nations Convention to…

Pardee Rand FEW Index scores show that 41 countries in SSA face FEW insecurity. There is a strong spatial pattern in the distribution of FEW insecurity across SSA. The context and specificities of each country and sub-region must be taken into consideration to address FEW insecurity. Future research may seek to address the complex socio-economic and ecological factors driving…

Assessing the sensitivity of common plant species from historical data Authors: C. Picard, A. Kirkwood and J. Schwalbe Non-target terrestrial plant (NTTP) studies are used to assess the potential effects of crop protection agrochemicals, known as plant protection products (PPP), on seedling emergence and vegetative vigor grown under controlled greenhouse conditions. Seedling…

Sub-Saharan Africa is typically regarded as land abundant, and previous efforts to estimate the trueextent of potentially available cropland (PAC) have largely affirmed this perception. Such efforts, how-ever, have largely focused on production potential and have underemphasized economic profitabilityand other constraints to expansion. This paper re-estimates PAC for Africa in a more explicit…