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Land degradation remains controversial because of the lack of scientifically objective and consistent methods for monitoring and assessing the problem. The lack of reliable data poses a fundamental bottleneck to sound development policy and for assessing progress towards goals throughout the developing world. Land health surveillance borrows many scientific concepts andprinciples from the public…

Humankind currently faces interconnected, worldwide challenges of feeding our rapidly growing population while simultaneously preserving our natural resource base, adapting to climate change, and creating or maintaining favourable living conditions for present and future generations. The world’s population is growing exponentially. It is expected to rise from seven to more than nine billion…

Good policy is sharp policy. It is policy that targets specific problems and bottlenecks. For this, we need a clear picture of what is happening and good data. This first World Atlas of Gender Equality in Education responds to this need on one of the most important questions for human rights and sustainable development today. Girls and women remain deprived of full and equal opportunities for…

The 2012 edition of Mediterra takes the mobilising potential of the Mediterranean Diet as a basis and proposes a multidimensional itinerary involving sociodemographics,health, ecology, enterprise, geo-economics and citizens’ initiative. Consumers in the countries of the Mediterranean Basin have progressively changed their dietary practices as they have gradually become caught up in…

The texts of the post-Rio conventions leave no doubt concerning the importance of environmental information to support the fight against both desertification and loss of biodiversity as well as adaptation to climate change by developing systems for the collection of data and the production of coordinated, integrated information. In this context, the dissemination of shared and mutually beneficial…

Adapting to climate change is not a new phenomenon for the Arab World. For thousands of years, the people in Arab countries have coped with the challenges of climate variability by adapting their survival strategies to changes in rainfall and temperature. Their experience has contributed significantly to the global knowledge on climate change and adaptation. But over the next…