desertification

FAO: Care Needed as Forests Used for Bio-fuel

Dinka — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:30:58 -0600

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization says using more energy from wood could cut greenhouse gases and reduce poverty.

Madrid Conference Seeks Ways To Stop Desertification

Dinka — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 09:51:41 -0500

More than 2,000 delegates from around the world have gathered in the Spanish capital to discuss ways to stop desertification, or the process that turns arable land into unusable desert.

Desertification Day

Anastvatz — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 01:36:43 -0500

Climate Risk Management Can Reduce Land Degradation

Drylands are not the same as badlands

harminka — Fri, 11 May 2007 04:10:53 -0500

Drylands, where 38 percent of the world's population lives, can be protected from the irreversible damage of desertification if local residents and managers at all levels would follow basic sustainability principles, according to a panel of experts writing in the May 11 issue of the journal Science.

How can desertification control and development be reconciled?

harminka — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 10:02:21 -0600