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Science Document: Best Practices on National Drought Management Policy
Policy Document: National Drought Management Policy
Documento de política: Política nacional de gestión de sequías
Documento científico: Prácticas idóneas en materia de políticas nacionales para la gestión de la sequía
Document directif: politiques nationales de gestion de la sécheresse
Document scientifique: Mesures recommandées pour une politique nationale de gestion de la sécheresse
The forgotten billion: MDG achievement in the drylands
UNDP, 2011The purpose of this publication is to highlight the development challenges faced by people who live in drylands and to outline how these challenges can be tackled successfully. Covering about 40 percent of the world’s land surface, dryland is home to more than 2 billion people in nearly 100 countries, of which about half remains under poverty. It will be impossible to meet the Millennium Development Goals by 2015 if life does not improve for the poor people of the drylands. Together, they are the forgotten billion. The publication stresses that the policies designed to meet the needs of drylan ...
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Tenth Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 10) to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) - Summary report
IISD, 2011
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Global Drylands : a UN system-wide response
United Nations, 2011More than two billion people depend on the world’s arid and semi-arid lands. Preventing land degradation and supporting sustainable development in drylands has major implications for food security, climate change and human settlement. This report, issued at the beginning of the United Nations Decade for Deserts and the Fight against Desertification, sets out a shared strategy by UN agencies to rise to the challenge of addressing the special needs of these vital zones. Our focus is twofold: tackling the underlying causes of land degradation, and strengthening the capacity of dryland populations ...
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