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The technology is a system of integrated runoff water and drainage management that allows cultivation in a swampy valley bottom. The system divides the land into raised beds which are separated by furrows, acting as drainage channels. The furrows can also distribute runoff water from upslope to the valley bottom if required.

Chapter 1: Meaning Of Land

Global Land Outlook

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09 November 2017

Our perceptions of land are not only a response to the outside world, but also a cause and an effect of cultural filtering, by which certain phenomena feature prominently, while others recede into the background. In other words, the less visible the elements of land are to a particular stakeholder, the less meaning they have for that person and perhaps result in a lack of awareness as to their possible critical functions.

Members of the new Intergovernmental Working Group on Drought announced

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Bonn, Germany – The COP Bureau has confirmed the members of the new Intergovernmental Working Group (IWG) on effective policy and implementation measures for addressing drought under UNCCD. They will be working together with the experts appointed by the Parties to form recommendations that will be…

Auditors examine European Union strategy to combat desertification-The audit will examine whether the risk of desertification in the EU is being effectively and efficiently addressed.

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01-02-2018

The European Court of Auditors (ECA) is conducting an audit on the EU’s strategic framework for combating desertification – where previously fertile land becomes increasingly dry and unproductive. The audit will examine whether the risk of desertification in the EU is being effectively and…

Impacts of Sand storms/Dust storms on Agriculture (M. V.K. Sivakumar) Chapter Natural Disasters and Extreme Events in Agriculture pp 159-177.

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29-09-2016

The drylands of the world are affected by moderate to severe land degradation from wind erosion and there is evidence that the frequency of sand storms/dust storms in increasing.

Salinization in Drylands

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18-05-2020

Most commonly in drylands the salinity levels are always high and evenly dispersed due to this salinity levels the plant cultivated are usually tremendously affected. Normal plants cannot grow in soils with high salinity levels. In this book the authors would like to analyze the effects of human…

Land degradation neutrality for water security and combatting drought

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18 March 2020

Water scarcity is already widespread and remains on the rise: it is found in nearly every region in the world. Around 36% of the world’s population is currently living in water-scarce regions. This publication shows that avoiding, reducing and reversing land degradation have positive long-term gains in water security. As land degradation and water scarcity are closely linked, and water is the most disruptive element in the on-going climate change crisis, how land is managed plays a major role in taming this disruption.

Species diversity throughout the food chain maintains multiple ecosystem services more effectively

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26-01-2017

Biodiversity’s contribution to ecosystem services in grasslands — at different levels of the food chain (known as trophic levels1) — has been assessed in a new study. Higher species diversity across trophic levels — particularly for plants, insects and soil microbial decomposers — is important for…

"Ma terre, héritage pour mes enfants" video showcases Madagascar's efforts reforestation efforts

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Video "Ma terre, héritage pour mes enfants" ("My land, a heritage for my children") has been produced by the Ministry of the Environment, Ecology and Forests, Madagascar, and the Global Mechanism of the UNCCD. Madagascar, known as the Green Island, committed to achieve Land Degradation Neutrality…

Living Planet: "We need to be optimizing"

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The IPCC's report on land use and climate change adds another perspective, or piece of the puzzle, to understanding what humans are doing to the planet and how we might be able to limit our damage to the Earth. Barron Josef Orr is a lead scientist for the United Nations Convention to Combat…

GLO survey – your help is needed!

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The first edition of the Global Land Outlook (GLO) was published in September 2017, receiving warm welcome from focal points and plenty of attention in global media channels. To guide the next steps, UNCCD secretariat has launched an independent external evaluation focusing on the relevance and…

COP14: Belarus brings experience in peatland restoration

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Minsk, Belarus – The development of measures to protect and restore forests and peatlands as key resources in the fight against climate change, loss of biodiversity and land degradation will be of major importance for Belarus at UNCCD COP14, BELTA news agency reports. According to the UNCCD national…

COP14 hosts the first Gender Caucus

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New Delhi, India – “How can a country and its economy progress when close to half of it work-force is constantly pulled down? This is the fundamental issue of development”, said Mr. Ibrahim Thiaw, UNCCD, Executive Secretary, at the opening of the Gender Caucus, which took place on the sidelines of…

Vulnerability (Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment)

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04-10-2016

Like the baboon, or that woman who made flour so long ago, we depend ultimately on Nature. We can dream that we are managing our world and its ecosystems, but in reality it is Nature that manages us.

The Intergovernmental Working Group on Drought meets online

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The international community is developing policy measures and actions to help the people most vulnerable to drought to take early action to avoid loss of life, and the heavy and growing losses of livelihoods and damage to property and ecosystems following droughts. The Intergovernmental Working…

IWG meeting provides actionable recommendations to Parties

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The online meeting of the Intergovernmental Working Group (IWG) on drought on 13-15 December 2021 brought together 30 regional representatives, scientists, international organizations and members of civil society, to review new policy and institutional measures that can help address drought…

Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine

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http://eng.menr.gov.ua/

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Ukraine

The Natural Resources Inventory (NRI)

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http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/main/me/technical/dma/nri/

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Natural climate solutions-the paper offers a comprehensive roadmap for reducing carbon emissions through nature

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23-10-2017

Better stewardship of land is needed to achieve the Paris Climate Agreement goal of holding warming to below 2 °C; however, confusion persists about the specific set of land stewardship options available and their mitigation potential. To address this, we identify and quantify “natural climate…

The Global Symposium on Soil Erosion (GSER19)‘Stop soil erosion, Save our future’ will be held from 15-17 May 2019

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17-04-2019

The Global Symposium on Soil Erosion (GSER19), ‘Stop soil erosion, Save our future’ will be held from 15-17 May 2019, at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Headquarters in Rome, Italy. This science-policy meeting is co-organized by the UN FAO and its Global Soil Partnership (GSP), the…

New Article:Technologically achievable soil organic carbon sequestration in world croplands and grasslands

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15-11-2018

Reported potentials for sequestration of carbon in soils of agricultural lands are overly optimistic because they assume that all degraded cropland and grassland can be subjected to best management practices. Two approaches for estimating this potential are presented.

The UN gender study: Women ‘far from having an equal voice to men’

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17-02-2021

The COVID-19 pandemic is “interrupting efforts” to achieve gender equality and threatening to “reverse hard-won gains” over the past decades

National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA)

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http://www.nepa.gov.jm/nsp/Project%20Overview.ppt

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UNCCD COP11: Windhoek, Namibia

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The eleventh session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification convened under the theme “A stronger UNCCD for a Land-Degradation Neutral World” in September 2013 in Windhoek, Namibia. COP11 considered the results of the second UNCCD scientific…

There are vast forests in the world's deserts and drylands—about 1.8 million square miles of them (467 million hectares), an area larger than the size of India!

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24-05-2017

A group of scientists announced a surprising discovery in Science magazine: There are vast forests in the world's deserts and drylands—about 1.8 million square miles of them (467 million hectares), an area larger than the size of India! Researchers at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, WRI…