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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    November, 2008
    Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay

    Comercio e Integración Regional Influyen en la dimensión Ambiental. Recursos naturales bordean el 60% del total de exportación de la subregión. Documento revelador sobre el mercado de la soya y otros. Documento completo se puede bajar de http://www.pnuma.org/raiz/GeoMercosurFinal.pdf Aquí le ofrecemos un summary de prensa.

  2. Library Resource
     The environmental food crisis: the environment's role in averting future food crises cover image

    A UNEP rapid response assessment

    Reports & Research
    September, 2010
    Global

    The surge in food prices in the last years, following a century of decline, has been the most marked of the past century in its magnitude, duration and the number of commodity groups whose prices have increased. The ensuing crisis has resulted in a 50–200% increase in selected commodity prices, driven 110 million people into poverty and added 44 million more to the undernourished.

  3. Library Resource
    Framework and Guiding Principles for a Land Degradation Indicator cover image
    Manuals & Guidelines
    April, 2016
    Global

    Framework and Guiding Principles for a Land Degradation Indicator to monitor and report on progress towards target 15.3 of the Sustainable Development Goals, the strategic objectives of the Rio Conventions and other relevant targets and commitments

  4. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2016
  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2012
    Mali, Africa, Western Africa

    Part 1 of this publication presents scientific concepts of land health surveillance and the methods and analytical approaches that are used to make surveillance operational. Part 2 presents a regional application of land health surveillance with a synoptic screening study of land degradation in the Sahel using historical changes in vegetation growth and rainfall patterns, based on remote sensing.

  6. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2012
    Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

    The atlas provides a pictorial overview of the application of land degradation surveillance a science-based approach to land health monitoring and assessment. Systematic sampling and observation of ground conditions are combined with new technology for rapid soil characterization and with fine to moderate resolution satellite imagery to provide powerful inference about soil, vegetation and socioeconomic conditions at local to regional scales.

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