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As part of UNDP's Global Development Imperative Challenge Paper Series, this publication challenges the current wisdom on the distribution and condition of drylands populations and offers more realistic scenarios that decision-makers can take seriously. The paper sets out this challenge and introduces some of the new evidence that is required.

The goal of development is to permanently improve the welfare of people everywhere. In a world where 1.2 billion people live on less than $1 a day, 10 million children under the age of five die each year, mostly from preventable diseases, and 113 million primary school age children do not attend school, we know we have not succeeded. But have we made progress? The World Bank eAtlas mapping…

Drought is one of the major natural hazards, resulting in significant economic, social, and environmental costs. In Europe, water shortage is an important problem in many regions. However, despite the increasing awareness of this hazard, there is no European drought policy and institutional frameworks to cope with drought situations are only weakly developed. This book is dedicated to…

The health impacts of desertification can be divided into malnutrition and famine, water borne diseases, other infectious diseases, respiratory diseases and burning injuries. Desertification and drought affect food production, resulting in malnutrition, hunger, and often famine. Although over the past three decades world food production has increased at a greater rate than has…

Overview, analysis, trends, strategic thrust and relevance of donor assistance to UNCCD with particular reference to the Asian region. The GM was requested by COP.3 (paragraph 11, Decision 9/COP.3) “in coordination with theUNCCD Secretariat, to organize during the year 2000 regional and/or subregional workshops inAfrica, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean on …

Desertification has occurred worldwide. The biophysical and socio-economic complexity of this phenomenon has challenged our ability to categorize, inventory, monitor and repair the condition of degraded lands. One of the most important distinctions to be made in relation to land degradation is between cultivated land used for annual crop production and `rangelands'. Grazing by free-roaming…