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A new strategy to bind the international community and to build international cooperation to combat DLDD must emerge from this context, in order to prevent negative impacts on the poorest countries and to improve food security and access to water. Bringing together the strengths of both international human rights and environmental law will better protect people, whose lives and livelihoods are…

This is a report on the High-Level Policy Dialogue that was held in Bonn on May 27, 2008, under the official title “Coping with Today’s Global Challenges in the Context of the Strategy of the Unites Nations Convention to Combat Desertification.” The speeches and remarks made by participants have been edited for reasons of space.The conference was organised by the UNCCD Secretariat in…

Considering that the world’s drylands is home to more than 2 billion people and being concerned that many drylands are subject to desertification as a result of extended droughts, climate change and human activities, new scientific challenges and opportunities for research and development have emerged. The recent scientific results need to be addressed in order to promote sustainable development…

Smallholder farming systems in Sub-Saharan Africa are often nutrient-limited systems that depend largely on the use of land resources for their subsistence. Crop-livestock integration is an effective means by which nutrients can be rapidly recycled within and between farms. However, there is great uncertainty over which are the critical stages of nutrient transfer through crop-livestock systems…

Under the present conditions of climate change and the growing scarcity of productive natural capital such as arable land and water, The strategy aims to rally a global coalition to deliver benefits for people and ecosystems everywhere and generate downto-earth responses to some of the major international challenges of our time. The protection of land and soil is essential both for…

This is a timely and comparative assessment of initiatives to promote renewable electricity sources (RES-E) in eight European countries. Carried out by the ProSus research programme at the University of Oslo in cooperation with leading research institutions in each country, the book focuses on the promotional schemes used to foster RES-E in Austria, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands,…