FAO activities and Achievements and its Role in Combating Desertification in the Near East Region
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November 1996
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FAODOCREP:10c6ab0d-81e5-4e98-9edb-05e0f4505e75
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32
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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.
