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The 16 papers in this volume grew out of questions posed by policymakers and 26 scientific papers and 44 posters presented at that 1999 workshop and were developed through an ongoing, multidesciplinary discussion initiated at that time. This multidisciplinary collaboration has aimed to bridge the gap within science. Landscape-level services arising from maintaining or increasing…

This discussion paper is about the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) - one of the multilateral agreements that came out of the UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. UNCCD is based on a conceptualization of international relations that transcends to a large extent the traditional notions of inter-governmental treaties. …

The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) plays a key role in the world’s efforts to eradicate poverty, achieve sustainable development and reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It is the only internationally recognized legally binding instrument that addresses the problem of land degradation in dryland rural areas. It enjoys a truly universal membership of 191…

As marginal drylands, all project sites share similar environmental constraints such as recurrent droughts, water shortages, shallow soils and the threat of land degradation. As they occur in different economic, political, social and cultural environments, it will be interesting to address similar bio-physical problems from different perspectives stemming from varying…

Despite increasing globalisation and liberalisation of trade production in some developing countries, the majority still depend on commodity exports as a main source of economic development. In order to achieve the the UN Millennium Development Goals, particularly that of reducing world poverty by half by 2015, major reform of commodity production and trade will be required, including broadening…

This Atlas emerged as a need to evaluate the conclusions drawn at the end of a stage in the development of Native Forests Project, and in response to a concern, if the majority of public opinion in Argentina continues to ignore the state of their native forest estate there is little hope of changing the trend toward its demise.