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The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) plays a key role in the world’s efforts to eradicate poverty, achieve sustainable development and reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It is the only internationally recognized legally binding instrument that addresses the problem of land degradation in dryland rural areas. It enjoys a truly universal membership of 191…

In the last decades of the 20th century drought and desertification processes have particularly affected temperate climate areas worldwide. Northern Mediterranean countries, who had never faced with these problems, are observing events and states related to loss of land fertility and social consequences which may arise. This Conference aims to create a dialogue/discourse on such events,…

Accommodating people’s growing demands for their inclusion in society, for respect of their ethnicity, religion, and language, takes more than democracy and equitable growth. Also needed are multicultural policies that recognize differences, champion diversity and promote cultural freedoms, so that all people can choose to speak their language, practice their religion, and participate in shaping…

Despite increasing globalisation and liberalisation of trade production in some developing countries, the majority still depend on commodity exports as a main source of economic development. In order to achieve the the UN Millennium Development Goals, particularly that of reducing world poverty by half by 2015, major reform of commodity production and trade will be required, including broadening…

This Atlas emerged as a need to evaluate the conclusions drawn at the end of a stage in the development of Native Forests Project, and in response to a concern, if the majority of public opinion in Argentina continues to ignore the state of their native forest estate there is little hope of changing the trend toward its demise.

The handbook is a useful resource on issues related to National Action Programmes, Capacity Building, Education and Outreach, Reporting, Technology Transfer and Impacts and Adaptation covered by the three conventions : UNCCD, UNFCCC and CBD