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Drying out
This fall, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) launched the Decade for Deserts and the Fight against Desertification, an effort to protect and preserve drylands, currently under threat from desertification, land degradation, and drought (DLDD).
Drylands, defined as arid, semiarid, and dry sub-humid areas, are home to one in three people, 90 percent of whom live in the developing world. These threatened areas support half the world’s livestock and make up 44 per cent of the world’s cultivated systems.
Food Security, Farming, and Climate Change to 2050
Time: 12:15 pm to 1:45 pm EST (Please join us for lunch beginning at 11:45 am); Live webcast coming up at the scheduled time.
Presenter(s): Mark Rosegrant, IFPRI; Sherman Robinson, Institute of Development Studies (IDS) Contact/RSVP:
RSVP to Simone Hill-Lee - s.hill-lee@cgiar.org 202-862-8107
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International Food Policy Research Institute
2033 K Street, NW, Washington, DC
Fourth Floor Conference Facility
Sourcebook offers practical guidance on property rights and collective action for resource management
Effective cooperation and secure property rights play key roles in improving agricultural productivity, food security, and rural livelihoods. They can also help to ensure that resources are available to meet future needs. All too often, however, their application evades the communities who stand to benefit most. A new book sets out to provide practical guidance that local groups and development agencies can use in enabling marginalized people to effectively and sustainably access and manage the farmland, forests, and water on which they rely.
Mera Declaration of the Global Gathering of Women Pastoralists
We, the women pastoralists gathered in Mera, India, from November 21-26, 2010, representing 32 countries, have met to strengthen alliances and forward practical solutions to issues that affect us.
One Summer, 1,564 Villages: A Picture of Chinese Agriculture at a Crossroads
What happens when you send 130 college students to thousands of villages in rural China, armed with pens and camera phones to ask farmers strange and sometimes awkward questions? In Landesa, we call it our 2010 nationwide sample survey on …
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