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   Rehabilitating degraded land

   January, 2008

   Nepal, Mauritania, Mali, China, Uzbekistan, India, Chad, Eastern Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Southern Asia

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   Land & Food Security

   food security

   climate change

   environment

   land

   rural development

   land degradation

   agriculture

   Across vast areas of the world, human activity has degraded once fertile and productive land. Deforestation, overgrazing, continuous farming and poor irrigation practices have affected almost 2 billion hectares worldwide, threatening the health and livelihoods of over one billion people. In this edition of New Agriculturist, a collection of articles explores some of the approaches and policies that can help to successfully rehabilitate degraded land.

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   CPWF Annual Report 2006

   Reports & Research

   December, 2007

   Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Burkina Faso, China, Colombia, Ecuador, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Honduras, India, Iran, Kenya, Laos, Mali, Mozambique, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Peru, South Africa, Sudan, Thailand, Togo, Uganda, Vietnam, Zimbabwe, South America, Western Africa, Middle Africa, Eastern Africa, Central America, Western Asia, Southern Asia, South-Eastern Asia, Southern Africa

   water management

   The CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF) is a multi-institutional research for development program

   that seeks to create and disseminate international public goods to improve the productivity of water in river basins in

   ways that are pro-poor, gender equitable and environmentally sustainable. In doing so, CPWF contributes to efforts by

   the global community to ensure that global diversions of water to agriculture are maintained at the level of the year

   2000.

3. Library Resource

   

   Negotiation and mediation techniques for natural resource management

   Journal Articles & Books

   December, 2007

   Angola, Nepal, United States of America, Zambia, South Africa, Gambia, Mali, Sweden, Zimbabwe, Italy, Botswana, Germany, Namibia

   natural resources management

   This publication is part of a series of training materials on natural resources conflict management developed by FAOs Livelihood Support Programme. It supports the discussions presented in Negotiation and mediation techniques for natural resource management (2005) a conceptual guide by sharing recent, real-life experiences of Africans who have used the processes and principles of consensual negotiation and mediation to address natural resource conflicts.