Status of Desertification and Implementation of the United Nations Plan of Action to Combat Desertification: Report of the Executive Director: Governing Council, Third Special Session, Nairobi, 3-5 February 1992 |
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Action to Combat affected by desertification Africa agricultural America annual anti-desertification campaign anti-desertification measures appropriate Area t.ha areas affected Arid Asia Assembly cent Centre combating desertification cooperation coordinated corrective measures Cost million crop degraded lands DESCON Desertification Control developing countries dry sub-humid ecological economic Environment environmental ESCWA established estimate Europe N funding Governing Council hyper-arid IAWGD IFAD implementing the PACD institutions irrigated irrigated croplands irrigated lands land degradation land resources land use systems Lomé Convention major Mauritania million hectares mobilization Monitoring national level national plans natural resources Network NPACDS Plan of Action policies population preventive priorities problem of desertification productive drylands projects prone to desertification rainfed croplands rangelands reclamation Recommendation recurrent droughts regional and international rural Sahel sand dune stabilization semi-arid soil degradation status of desertification Sudano-Sahelian Sudano-Sahelian region sustainable technologies total area UNCOD UNDP UNEP Unesco UNSO World Bank world's drylands