At the regional and subregional levels, FAO has initiated and prepared the Land Degradation Assessment in the Drylands (LADA), used to develop tools and methods to assess and quantify the nature, extent and severity of land degradation.

programme of work, and the provision of guidance to it

In 2006, FAO will implement the Land Degradation Assessment in Drylands programme, which will provide and disseminate a number of information and awareness documents.

The new kit, labelled A creative approach to environmental education in drylands and highlands , will be targeted at primary and secondary schools in dryland and mountainous countries.

6. Invites the donor community to increase its support to the Convention with a view to bringing greater international attention to bear on the issue of land degradation and desertification, which will contribute to the improvement of the sustainable development of drylands and the global environment

Invites the donor community to increase its support to the Convention with a view to bringing greater international attention to bear on the issue of land degradation and desertification, which will contribute to the improvement of the sustainable development of drylands and the global environment

4. Invites the donor community to increase its support to the Convention with a view to bringing greater international attention to bear on the issue of land degradation and desertification, which will contribute to the improvement of the sustainable development of drylands and the global environment

At the Forum, participants discussed aspects of environmental management in drylands from a community perspective, the management of water resources in drylands and the mobilization of financial resources to combat desertification.

4. Invites the donor community to increase its support to the implementation of the Convention with a view to bringing greater international attention to bear on the issue of land degradation and desertification, which will contribute to the improvement of the sustainable development of drylands and the global environment

Invites the donor community to increase its support to the implementation of the Convention with a view to bringing greater international attention to bear on the issue of land degradation and desertification, which will contribute to the improvement of the sustainable development of drylands and the global environment

Persistent, substantial reduction in the provision of ecosystem services as a result of water scarcity, intensive use of services and climate change is a much greater threat in drylands than in non dryland systems.

As such, Iit constitutes in that regard, a unique opportunity to bring across the message of the people of the drylands to the world while dully at the same time underlining the daily plight of the drylands' communities and their commitment of the drylands' communities to the objectives of sustainable development.

Even before the decision to make land degradation a focal area, the GEF informed on assistance provided to African countries in meeting the biodiversity conservation and climate change objectives through dryland management projects.

(6) Control of Land Degradation and Desertification processes in the insular Caribbean

Land Degradation 250 million Obtaining assistance Eligibility requirements GEF grants that are made available through the financial mechanisms of the conventions shall be in conformity with the eligibility criteria decided by the COPs under the agreement (i.e., the MOU) made with each convention.

The movies presented at the international film festival will portray day to day life in the drylands.

Reintroduction of indigenous vegetation will help with the degradation of the land.

Desertification (land degradation caused by aridity) and overgrazing are also problems.

Poverty must be estimated as the result of a group of causes, of which land degradation is one.

The Global Environment Facility (GEF) attaches great importance to combating soil degradation.

Dig a red lake of width 1 32 passing within 2 32 of all dry land.

Desertification takes place worldwide in drylands, and its effects are experienced locally, nationally, regionally and globally.

The films presented at the International Film Festival would portray a daydaily life in drylands.

Dig a green lake of width 1 33 passing within 2 33 of all dry land.

Second, by the creation of economic opportunities in urban centres and areas outside drylands.

UNDP is also preparing a paper entitled Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in the drylands .

Land degradation is in turn defined as the reduction or loss of the biological or economic productivity of drylands.

First, by the introduction of alternative livelihoods that have less of an impact on dryland resources.

Viable alternatives must be provided to dryland people to maintain their livelihoods without causing desertification.

In this regard, UNU will continue to support research, training and dissemination on the integrated management of water, soil and biodiversity in drylands for enhancing the well being of people in the drylands of Africa.

Promoting measures for revitalizing drylands agricultural sectors based on good local governance for sustainable agricultural farming systems.

TPN 2 on agroforestry has completed its draft manual on dryland agro forestry.

The secretariat has continued to promote a project targeting dryland rehabilitation through the provision of employment and resources to youth.

It has made this one of its areas of activity and has adopted a specific operational programme for the purpose.

Projects have been launched with a view to developing appropriate tools to assess and quantify the impact and extent of land and ecosystem degradation.

It is caused primarily by human activities and climatic variations.

Support to mobile pastoralism in the drylands should receive a higher level of priority under the UNCCD given pastoralists specific adaptive management practices and traditional knowledge of coping strategies in drylands conditions.

As floodwaters recede, crocodiles have been found in dry grounds looking for food.

Some 10 20 per cent of drylands are already degraded (medium certainty).

The aim of the project is to identify the peoples' adaptation techniques and traditional knowledge in coping with dryland conditions.

Extend the blue lake by a channel of width 1 34 passing within 2 34 of all dry land.

) Extend the red lake by a channel of width 1 35 passing within 2 35 of all dry land.

Closer cooperation has been sought with specialized organizations that deal with drought, agricultural production and productivity in drylands.

In particular, the projected intensification of freshwater scarcity as a result of climate change will cause greater stresses in drylands.

It is not possible in practice to develop a single methodology to measure the relationship between land degradation and poverty.