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Mediterra 2009, entitled "Rethinking rural development in the Mediterranean" is the fruit of cooperation between CIHEAM and Blue Plan. Awareness is growing in the Mediterranean, as in other parts of the world, of the fact that the future of the region will inevitably involve developing farming systems and rural areas.Climate change, responsible water resource management, lands…

Mediterra 2009, entitled "Rethinking rural development in the Mediterranean" is the fruit of cooperation between CIHEAM and Blue Plan. Awareness is growing in the Mediterranean, as in other parts of the world, of the fact that the future of the region will inevitably involve developing farming systems and rural areas.Climate change, responsible water resource management, lands dynamics,…

Linking the terms “environment” and “conflict” remains contentious in today’s international political arena. While most acknowledge that numerous conflicts have been fuelled by natural resources, UN Member States are divided on how to address the linkages. Some States express concern about protecting their sovereign right to use their resources according to their national interest. Many others…

Very large cuts in emissions of greenhouse gases are needed if we are to avoid the worst effects of global climate change. This report describes the vital contribution that ecosystems can and must make to these efforts. It is essential that climate mitigation policy is guided by the best available science concerning ecosystem carbon, and decisions should be informed by the overall costs and…

The international community pressed for a treaty to tackle the growing physical and human crisis of desertification at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. The Convention to Combat Desertification, the first legally binding international agreement on the problem, was agreed on in 1994. It promotes a bottom-up approach that starts with the people actually affected by the crisis and replaces…

The ESA DesertWatch project goal was to develop an Information System for assessing and monitoring desertification using EO technologies, in order to support local authorities in reporting to the UNCCD. The project has selected the most robust and reliable methodologies developed during the related research projects, integrating them into a unique environment, which is easy to use,…