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Given the unfortunate, frequent occurrence of droughts, practical actions are ever more critical to ensure achieving food security in this region [Africa]. Understanding what has previously worked can provide a guiding vision as we proactively address the current crisis. Food security and human security are inextricably linked, and innovative initiatives are needed to create…

This paper argues that a sustainable ecosystem management approach is vital to ensure the delivery of essential ‘life support’ ecosystem services and must be mainstreamed into societal conscience, political thinking and economic processes. Feeding the world at a time of climate change, environmental degradation, increasing human population and demand for finite resources requires…

Climate change has assumed a very large presence in the global debate in recent times. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has had an enormous influence over world thinking on climate change. In its latest publication (AR5), the IPCC notes that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions growth in the decade leading to 2010 has been larger, averaging an increase of 2.2% per year, than in the…

The objective of this study was to evaluate the desertification vulnerability of an approximately 1000‐ha area in Anatolia, Turkey, comprising semiarid oak (Quercus spp.) and pine (Pinus spp.) forests and the adjacent cultivated lands using the environmental sensitivity index (ESI). The authors calculated the ESI values for 632 randomly selected sites in the study area by entering…