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The Sahel is a region where the population has always faced a high degree of climate variability, manifested both in terms of time (unexpected dry spells can occur during the rainy season) and in terms of space (rainfall can vary greatly from one area to another). Soil and Water Conservation- and Soil Protection and Restoration-Techniques have helped people in the Sahel to manage their ecosystems…

Over the last 12 years water-spreading weirs have been introduced and improved as a new rehabilitation technique for degraded dry valleys in Burkina Faso, Niger and Chad. They complement the previously available, proven rehabilitation measures for drainage basins. As a result, a set of measures is now available for the future stabilisation of such basins – from the plateaus to the slopes to the…

The congress was organized by Ege University’s Department of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, (Agricultural Faculty), and The Soil Science Society of Turkey (SSST). The congress also hosted the 6th International Conference on Land Degradation (ICLD). This congress was organized to discuss issues in “land degradation and challenges in soil management”. Interactions among soils, land…

This report presents results and conclusions from a Pilot exercise undertaken to assess the experience of affected country Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) with reporting on impact indicators under the Convention’s Performance Review and Assessment of the Implementation System (PRAIS). The experiences and recommendations presented in…

This report suggests that a new and explicit goal of sustainable development to be agreed as a result of Rio+20 should be the reduction of the rate of land degradation to achieve land degradation neutrality, which we refer to as “Zero Net Land Degradation” or ZNLD. Such a goal is urgently required in order to save the world‟s lands from further degradation processes and thus to meet the…

Why is the General Assembly convening a high-level meeting? Taking place in the context of the UN Decade for Deserts and the Fights against Desertification (2010-2020), the high-level meeting aims to raise awareness of desertification, land degradation and drought at the highest level. The outcomes of the meeting will be transmitted to the tenth session of the Conference of the…