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This publication is created to move the practice of drought mitigation beyond disaster management and into sustainable development and practice. It outlines terms and concepts in drought mitigation and discusses perceptions of risk and common meanings of drought, explains drought vulnerability and risk assessment, outlines methods for planning and implementing drought mitigation, and lists…

The study synthesizes the experience of the Bank, in drylands management, with special emphasis on Africa. The struggle to protect dryland resources from degradation, has to a large extent, been considered a defensive battle against desertification. However, this study points at the many possibilities - not problems - for increasing the productivity of drylands, such as doubling yields in many…

These are the proceedings from the World Bank Round Table meetings on dry-land degradation, and poverty, which brought together political, technical, and socioeconomic experts working in combating land degradation, to provide advice to the Bank on ways of translating the Convention to Combat Desertification (CCD), into the development assistance agenda. The document contains the papers presented…

Space-based sensors are giving us an ever-closer and more comprehensive look at the earth's surface; they also have the potential to tell us about human activity. This volume examines the possibilities for using remote sensing technology to improve understanding of social processes and human-environment interactions. Examples include deforestation and regrowth in Brazil, population…

The Regional workshop on the promotion of renewable energies and appropriate eco-technologies within the framework of the Convention to combat desertification in Africa, was held at El Mechtel Hotel in Tunis, Tunisia, October 26-29. This workshop is the fifth of a series of seven thematic consultations coming within the framework of the process of elaborating the Regional Action Programme to…

Land tenure issues are becoming increasingly important worldwide. Problems such as high population pressure, increases in resource degradation, food shortages, transformations of political systems and regional and supra-regional resource conflicts have brought the land issue to the public's attention. Land tenure and land tenure systems are of fundamental importance for efficient…