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This book provides an examination into the causes and prospects of desertification through a systematic review of 132 sub national case studies. It uses a meta-analytical model to determine whether proximate causes and underlying driving forces fall into any patterns, to identify mediating factors, feedbacks, cross-scalar dynamics and typical pathways. It shows a limited…

This publication aims to contribute to an understanding of traditional knowledge and how its application can minimize land degradation and desertification in arid and semi-arid zones and dry sub-humid zones. It is primarily intended to help those following the UNCCD process to take into account the development of traditional knowledge issues in the context of the work of the Committee on Science…

The women of this community suffer the structural problems that affect the rural indigenous sector, where poverty has increased in terms of spread and intensity. Inaddition, they suffer discrimination from other members of the same community, for example from one of the political civil employees concerning tasks such as the distribution of resources sent by the Neuquino State. The most common…

The importance of restoration continues to grow, and this book integrates the restoration of forest functions into landscape conservation plans. The global conservation organization WWF has made forest landscape restoration a key topic and priority for its environmental work. Due to the WWF’s extensive global reach, and together with its many partners and counterparts, it has acquired a…

Asia has large extent of dryland areas and also one of the highest affected populations at risk, due to desertification and large degradation. The progressing desertification and recurring drought have been affecting the livelihoods of the people living in the arid, semi arid and dry sub-humid areas of the region. Agroforestry is a farming system that integrates agricultural crops…

Desertification became an issue on the international agenda in the 1970s only. After a long and devastating drought period in Sub-Saharan Africa, more precisely in the Sahel, during the late 1960s and early 1970s, which caused the death of over 200 million people and several millions of animals, the Inter-State Permanent Committee on Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS) was established by nine…