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Born into the Zaghawa tribe in the Sudanese desert, Halima Bashir received a good education away from her rural surroundings (thanks to her doting, politically astute father) and at twenty-four became her village’s first formal doctor. Yet not even Bashir’s degree could protect her from the encroaching conflict that would consume her homeland. Janjaweed Arab militias savagely assaulted the…

Many drylands in the world suffer problems of land degradation and desertification derived from human activities and exacerbated by drought. Too often these degradation processes have been endured by the ecosystems for a long time, and, according to forecasts of climate change, are likely to worsen in the future. Ecological restoration combined with adaptive management can be effective tools in…

To some extent, the international development community has already recognised the importance of establishing funding mechanisms that allow countries to decide their own priorities, and to promote better national ownership. Promoting ownership, alignment, harmonisation of aid, managing for results and mutual accountability in addition to increasing the amount of funds available in the global…

Land is the foundation for all life-sustaining processes on Earth. Land supports the vast proportion of Earth’s biodiversity and, through its physical, chemical, and biological attributes, underpins a wide range of ecosystem goods and services that humanity depends on for survival. This includes provisioning services such as food and water; regulating services such as regulation…

In a majority of countries affected by desertification, commodity production is the main source of income.Primary agricultural production involves a large majority of active populations. In general, farm productivity in many Least Developed Countries(LDCs) with dryland conditions has remained low, and occasional growth has been achieved mainly from increasing the area under cultivation. The…

Facilitated by WWF, the Lower Danube Green Corridor Agreement was signed in 2000 by the governments of Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine and Moldova, recognizing a need and shared responsibility to protect and manage in a sustainable way one of the most outstanding biodiversity regions in the world. The Lower Danube Green Corridor Declaration pledged to boost protection for 775,000 ha of existing…