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This video explores innovative agricultural methods - supported and promoted by the UNCCD - to prevent land degradation and maintain fertile soil. It highlights desertification’s effects on biodiversity loss, food security and hunger for the global community. Created: 2011 Credits: UNCCD, GEF, Good Planet Foundation

Report of the Conference of the Parties on its eighth session, held in Madrid from 3 to 14 September 2007 Addendum Part two: Action taken by the Conference of the Parties at its eighth session

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Attached is the final text of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa, following completion of the verification processes as requested by the INCD upon adoption of the Convention at its fifth session, on 17 June 1994.

Ermias Betemariam, UNCCD SPI member provides his expertise as the Land Health Scientist of the World Agroforestry Centre. He also answers some of the questions that the audience might have on land and the involvement of the World Agroforestry Centre in helping and learning from farmers, governments, and civil organizations. More episodes coming soon. …

This Report provides a critical assessment of the full range of issues facing decision makers, including the importance, status, trends and threats to biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people, as well as policy and management response options. Establishing the underlying causes of land degradation provides policymakers with the information needed to develop appropriate response…