| Environment - Policy and management |
| Environment - Geoinformation, monitoring and assessment |
| Planning strategies against the effects of drought |
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| French: http://www.fao.org/sd/frdirect/EIan0005.htm |
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| Environment - Conventions & agreements |
| Desertification, drought and their consequences |
| Desertification and drought are the subject of this article. It looks at the relationship between them, the effects of the climatic changes and the consequences at the local, national and global levels. |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/EPdirect/EPan0005.htm |
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| Environment - Conventions & agreements |
| Recent FAO activities to combat desertification |
| The main mechanism established within FAO to facilitate its contribution to the Convention to Combat Desertification (CCD) is the ad hoc interdepartmental working group (CCD IWG) created in 1993. This group comprises representatives of 15 FAO technical services which have activities with a direct link to the sustainable development of drylands. Its main activities are described in this text extrac... more |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/EPdirect/EPre0062.htm |
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| Environment - Conventions & agreements |
| FAO report for the Third Conference of Parties of the Convention to Combat Desertification (CCD) |
| This report to the conference, held in Recife, Brazil, 16-29 November 1999, reviews FAO's past and current activities in the fight against desertification, including monitoring and normative programmes as well as field projects. |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/EPdirect/EPre0090.htm |
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| Environment - Conventions & agreements |
| Briefing on Desertification |
| The article includes general information on the issue, on the Desertification Convention and the role of FAO in combatting desertification. |
| English: http://www.fao.org/sd/EPdirect/EPre0008.htm |
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