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As marginal drylands, all project sites share similar environmental constraints such as recurrent droughts, water shortages, shallow soils and the threat of land degradation. As they occur in different economic, political, social and cultural environments, it will be interesting to address similar bio-physical problems from different perspectives stemming from varying…

The goals and objectives of the workshop were: - Identifying dominant land degradation factors in the Mediterranean region, assessing their extent and intensity throughout the region and at each participating country of the Project; - Identifying major gaps in information and knowledge base to reach a proper regional understanding of sustainable land management; -…

Ever since its creation in 1948, under the auspices of UNESCO, the International Councilon Archives (ICA) has provided significant technical and professional assistance to archivists and archival institutions in the world. By way of studies, conferences, expert missions, elaboration of norms and standards and the sharing of information, the ICA has played an essential role in raising awareness of…

Bonn has succeeded over the past decade to shape for itself a new profile as the German United Nations City and a centre of international dialogue on key issues of the future. A visible symbol of this development is the UN Campus. In order to establish a unified approach for all our libraries at the campus we worked on a model presenting our needs and views. The model has been developed following…

Increasingly land tenure institutions are required to support the decentralization of services to local governments. One expectation of decentralization is improved delivery of services by the level of government that is closest to the beneficiaries of those services. While the scope of services being allocated to local governments has expanded, many rural local governments lack the revenues…

This is a unique publication relating to legal frameworks of natural resources management. Following the “Legal and Institutional Frameworks for Sustainable Soils” (EPLP 45), this publication contributes to the revision of existing, and drafting of new, legislation relating to soils. It highlights the need for national soil policy, and sets out a soil management plan. It proposes legal and…