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The 1994 Report introduces a new concept of human security, which equates security with people rather than territories, with development rather than arms. It examines both the national and the global concerns of human security. The Report seeks to deal with these concerns through a new paradigm of sustainable human development, capturing the potential peace dividend, a new form of…

International communities recognize that desertification is harmful to economic, social and environment of many countries in all regions of the world. In 1977 the United Nations Conference on Desertification ( UNCOD) adopted a Plan of Action to Combat Desertification (PACD). Unfortunately, despite this, the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) concluded in 1991 that the problem of land…

The African Crop Science Journal, a quarterly publication, publishes original research papers dealing with all aspects of crop agronomy, production, genetics and breeding, germplasm, crop protection, post harvest systems and utilisation, agro-forestry, crop-animal interactions, information science, environmental science and soil science. It also publishes authoritative reviews on crop science and…

The 1993 Report examines how and how much people participate in the events and processes that shape their lives. The democratic transition in many developing countries, the collapse of many socialist regimes, and the worldwide emergence of people's organizations - these are all part of a historic change, not just isolated events. People's participation is becoming the central issue of our time…

This book was first started in 1940, and it was finally published in 1984. In ways this collection of essays resembles the "Meditations" of Marcus Aurelius. There is a certain "summing up" of his experiences, and the spectrum of topics covered is broad, from strictly scientific treatises on, for example, the geology and paleontology of the Adrar region of Mauritania, to exploration of the Libyan…

The Atlas includes information and many maps derived from the Global Assessment of Human-Induced Soil Degradation (GLASOD), as conducted in 1990 by the International Soil Reference and Information Centre (ISRIC) at Wageningen, The Netherlands, on behalf of UNEP. Aside from GLASOD's data on soil degradation, and in order to capture the multi-dimensional nature of global desertification processes,…