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The concept of 'desertification' has been much publicised in the media and is widely taught in school and higher education geography syllabuses. Recent literature suggests there is a need at the theoretical level to define the concept more carefully, and at the empirical level to investigate more closely the relationships between food production systems and their environmental…

Desertification is being defined as the extension of desert-like conditions as a result of man's impact on the vulnerable ecosystem of the semiarid zone. It occurs along marginal regions of deserts and involves a complex of physical-geographical processes resulting in diminishing the natural potential of land. The natural preconditions for desertification and its determinig factors…

On May 25, 1986 millions of people all over the world including many in India expressed their concern over the drought, desertifica- tion and famine condition in Africa. On May 18, exactly one week before that, about 100 concerned professionals spent two days at a seminar on "Control of Drought Desertification and Famine" in New Delhi to look at the situation in India futurologically and to find…

WOCAT – The World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies with its unique methodology and global Sustainable Land Management (SLM) database - can help promote scaling out of SLM and thus contribute to land degradation neutrality. This paper focuses primarily on three Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) indicators: (i) land cover, (ii) land productivity and (iii) carbon…