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There are 686 content items of different types and languages related to desertification on the Land Portal.
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La sylviculture et la crise en Afrique

Journal Articles & Books
November, 1985

Le prsent numro d'Unasylva est principalement consacr l'Afrique. Une bonne partie du continent a t ravage par plusieurs annes successives de scheresse, et des millions d'tres humains souffrent de faim et de malnutrition. Dans de nombreux pays d'Afrique, les cultures empitent rapidement sur les forts et les zones arides cause de la famine.

Action contre la desertification: Déployer la grande muraille verte d'Afrique. Bannière II

Policy Papers & Briefs
June, 2016
Burkina Faso
Nigeria
Senegal
Gambia
Ethiopia
Niger
Africa

En 2016, Action contre la désertification se prépare à restaurer 10 000 hectares de terres et à planter des espèces d'arbres, d'arbustes et de graminées locales et bien adaptées localement dans six pays africains - le Burkina Faso, l'Éthiopie, la Gambie, le Niger, le Nigeria et le Sénégal.

FAO activities and Achievements and its Role in Combating Desertification in the Near East Region

Reports & Research
November, 1996
Algeria
Qatar
Egypt
Iran
Mauritania
Iraq
Afghanistan
Azerbaijan
Morocco
Malta
Pakistan
Jordan
Cyprus
Libya
Somalia
Oman
Syrian Arab Republic
Kuwait
Tunisia
Sudan
Bahrain
Saudi Arabia
Lebanon

This paper outlines FAO's past and present activities on combating desertification, with particular emphasis on the Near East Region, in an attempt to mobilise all the potential efforts towards the establishment of an adequate strategy to enable this particular part of the world to build efficient regional and national programmes to combat resource degradation, restore land productivity and achieve food security.

Restauration des terres: Action contre la désertification

Policy Papers & Briefs
May, 2016
Burkina Faso
Nigeria
Senegal
Gambia
Ethiopia
Mali
Niger
Africa

En 2016, Action contre la désertification se prépare à restaurer 10 000 hectares de terres et à planter des espèces d'arbres, d'arbustes et de graminées locales et bien adaptées localement dans six pays africains - le Burkina Faso, l'Éthiopie, la Gambie, le Niger, le Nigeria et le Sénégal.

Data sets, indicators and methods to assess land degradation in drylands

Reports & Research
November, 2003
Burkina Faso
United States of America
France
China
Pakistan
Australia
Republic of Korea
Morocco
Mexico
Uganda
Italy
Botswana
Netherlands
Tunisia
Argentina
India
Senegal
Vietnam

This report summarizes the findings of the e-mail conference that took place from 9 October to 4 November 2002 and which was organized by the Land Degradation Assessment in Drylands project (LADA). The report contains exchanges of views on data sets and methods that may be used to assess land degradation and a discussion on the biophysical, socio-economic and institutional indicators that explain the root causes, driving forces, status, impact and reponses to land degradation at various scales.

Tackling desertification in the Korqin Sandy Lands trough integrated afforestation

Journal Articles & Books
November, 2000
France
Belgium
Israel
China
Italy
Australia
Netherlands
New Zealand
Mongolia
Thailand
Canada

The Project was created as a result of an urgent need to protect cultivated land against the severe degradation caused by wind and water erosion in the Korqin Sandy Lands, to improve the socio-economic well being of the inhabitants of the region and for the need to sustainable produce wood for all sorts of uses.