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  1. Library Resource
    Climate change in the African drylands: Options and opportunities for adaptation and mitigation cover image
    Manuals & Guidelines
    Reports & Research
    November, 2009
    Global

    The drylands of Africa, exclusive of hyper-arid zones, occupy about 43 per cent of the continent, and are home to a rapidly growing population that currently stands at about 325 million people. Dry zones, inclusive of hyper-arid lands, cover over 70 per cent of the continent’s terrestrial surface. Outside of the cities many dryland inhabitants are either pastoralists, sedentary or nomadic, or agro-pastoralists, combining livestock-rearing and crop production where conditions allow.

  2. Library Resource
    Revertir la degradación de la tierra cover image

    Compedio Para Responsables de Politicas

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2009
    Global

    Esto es un Compedio Para Responsables de Politicas "Revertir la degradación de la tierra"

  3. Library Resource
    De la dégradation à la santé des sols cover image

    Adresse Aux Décideurs

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2009
    Global

    C'est une adresse aux Décideurs "De la dégradation à la santé des sols"

  4. Library Resource
    From Land Degradation to Land Health cover image

    Brief for Policy Makers

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2009
    Global

    This is a brief for Policy Makers titled "From Land Degradation to Land Health"

  5. Library Resource
    Seguritizar La Tierra Y Atterizar La Seguridad cover image
    Reports & Research
    January, 2009
    Global

    En la no tan larga historia de la Humanidad, nuestros antepasados han luchado con demasiada frecuencia por la tierra y el agua. Aquellos tiempos están nuevamente de actualidad.


  6. Library Resource
    The Forgotten Billion: MDG achievement in the Drylands cover image
    Manuals & Guidelines
    Journal Articles & Books
    August, 2011
    Global

    As the world reviews its progress in tackling global poverty and achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), drylands can no longer be ignored. Drylands account for more than a third of the world’s land surface and more than 2 billion of its people. Yet for too long, drylands and their inhabitants have been neglected in development processes.


  7. Library Resource
    La escasez de agua y la desertificación cover image
    Reports & Research
    January, 2012
    Global

    Los desafíos y retos que supone la escasez de agua para las poblaciones de las tierras secas se van a ver incrementados tanto en magnitud como en alcance. Dado que la población mundial es ya superior a los 6.000 millones de personas, algunos países han superado los límites de sus recursos acuíferos. Con el escenario actual de cambio climático, casi la mitad de la población mundial habitará áreas con grandes problemas de agua antes del 2030, lo que incluye a una población de entre 75 y 250 millones de personas en África.

  8. Library Resource
    Water scarcity and desertification cover image
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2012
    Global

    The challenges and threats of water scarcity to dryland populations are set to increase in magnitude and scope. As the world’s population has swollen to well over 6 billion people, some countries have already reached the limits of their water resources. With the existing climate change scenario, almost half the world’s population will be living in areas of high water stress by 2030, including between 75 million and 250 million people in Africa. In addition, water scarcity in some arid and semi-arid places will displace between 24 million and 700 million people (WWDR 2009).

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