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There is a need to devise manage ment strategies that control soil and water losses in agriculture land to allow the design of proper policies to achieve sustainability. It is the responsibility of scien tists to work with other actors to co-construct strategies that will lead to sustainable land-use policies. Using chipped pruned branches(CPB) as mulch can be a viable option be…

Highlights •Five modules provide a practical framework for implementing land degradation neutrality (LDN). •LDN aims to maintain the land-based natural capital. •LDN counterbalances expected losses with measures to achieve equivalent gains within the same land type. •The response hierarchy prioritises Avoid > Reduce > Reverse land degradation. •Indicators for…

The Convention recognizes the importance of women in the implementation of the Convention, and identifies critical areas for their engagement: (i) awareness-raising, and participation in the design and implementation of programmes; (ii) decision-making processes that men and women adopt at the local level in the governance of development, implementation and review of regional and national…

The Drought Monitor was started in spring 1999 in response to a need for improved information about the status of drought across the United States. It serves as an example of interagency cooperation in a time of limited resources. The Drought Monitor process also illustrates the creative use of Internet technologies to disseminate authoritative information about drought and to receive regional…

Recent severe drought events across the nation have raised our concerns over society’s changing and increasing vulnerability to droughts. All levels of governments have taken actions to plan for the slow-onset, long-lasting and spatially extensive drought hazard. The progress of drought planning at the state level is especially impressive over the past decade due to the dramatic growth of drought…

Highlights •A drought risk atlas was created housing over 3000 stations with a 70 year average period of record. •Over 1 billion drought indices records have been generated up through 2012 and are freely available. •When fully completed, will house a cache of more than 500,000 gridded drought indices maps. •A robust web interface allows for multiple data and display…