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  1. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2016
    Argentina, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, China, Cameroon, Algeria, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Sudan, Senegal, South Sudan, Chad, Central Asia

    It took scientists more than three decades to transform a perceived desertification crisis in the Sahel into a non-event. Looking beyond the Sahel, the chapters in this book provide case studies from around the world that examine the use and relevance of the desertification concept.

  2. Library Resource

    Land Use Policy Volume 59

    Peer-reviewed publication
    December, 2016
    Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Algeria, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Sudan, Senegal, South Sudan, Chad

    After the severe droughts in the 1970s and 1980s, and subsequent debates about desertification, analyses of satellite images reveal that the West African Sahel has become greener again. In this paper we report a study on changes in tree cover and tree species composition in three village landscapes in northern Burkina Faso, based on a combination of methods: tree density change detection using aerial photos and satellite images, a tree species inventory including size class distribution analysis, and interviews with local farmers about woody vegetation changes.

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    Reports & Research
    December, 2016
    Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya, Niger, Tanzania, Western Africa, Eastern Africa

    We created a matrix of restoration options for each country, including potential benefits of the technologies and possible constraints.

  4. Library Resource
    Institutional & promotional materials
    January, 2016
    Eastern Africa, Ethiopia, Kenya, Western Africa, Mali, Niger

    The present document is a brief technical report highlighting activities relating to the options by context approach. The IFAD- funded project, “Restoration of degraded land for food security and poverty reduction in East Africa and the
    Sahel: taking successes in land restoration to scale” was launched in March 2015 and runs until March 2018. The project
    action countries include: Niger, Mali, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Kenya. This report will focus on activities carried out in the first

  5. Library Resource
    Institutional & promotional materials
    August, 2016
    Eastern Africa, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Western Africa, Mali, Niger

    Project goal is to reduce food insecurity and improve livelihoods of poor people living in African
    drylands by restoring degraded land
    and returning it to effective and sustainable
    tree, crop and livestock production, thereby
    increasing land profitability as well as landscape
    and livelihood resilience.

  6. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2016
    Mali, Niger, Africa

    Large-scale agricultural land investments in Africa are often considered solely from the land perspective. Yet land, water and other natural resources are closely interlinked in agricultural production and in sustaining rural livelihoods. Such investments involving irrigation will potentially have implications for water availability and utilization by other users, making it imperative to regard water as an economic rather than a free good.

  7. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    August, 2016
    Congo, Ghana, Guinea, Niger, Argentina, Pakistan, Czech Republic, Romania, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Serbia, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland, Papua New Guinea

    This issue of the Land Tenure Journal includes a geographically and technically diverse range of papers covering Europe, Africa, and Asia.

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