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Over the last 12 years water-spreading weirs have been introduced and improved as a new rehabilitation technique for degraded dry valleys in Burkina Faso, Niger and Chad. They complement the previously available, proven rehabilitation measures for drainage basins. As a result, a set of measures is now available for the future stabilisation of such basins – from the plateaus to the slopes to the…

The congress was organized by Ege University’s Department of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, (Agricultural Faculty), and The Soil Science Society of Turkey (SSST). The congress also hosted the 6th International Conference on Land Degradation (ICLD). This congress was organized to discuss issues in “land degradation and challenges in soil management”. Interactions among soils, land…

This report presents results and conclusions from a Pilot exercise undertaken to assess the experience of affected country Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) with reporting on impact indicators under the Convention’s Performance Review and Assessment of the Implementation System (PRAIS). The experiences and recommendations presented in…

This report suggests that a new and explicit goal of sustainable development to be agreed as a result of Rio+20 should be the reduction of the rate of land degradation to achieve land degradation neutrality, which we refer to as “Zero Net Land Degradation” or ZNLD. Such a goal is urgently required in order to save the world‟s lands from further degradation processes and thus to meet the…

The Atlas provides a pictorial overview of the application of land health surveillance science in the Sahel at multiple scales from regional to local levels. It illustrates unprecedented advances in earth observation using remote sensing from space, in the field and on the laboratory bench, combined with geographical information systems, and hierarchical statistical methods. The landscapes,…

In this synthesis report, the issue of tenure security is addressed and assessed in several countries where government, civil society, the private sector and development cooperation initiatives have been implemented for decades. The selected case studies from fifteen (15) countries ensure not only a geographic balance but they also represent countries with different socio-economic and land…