Changes occurring in environmental processes are better understood if due account is taken of the interactions between climate, biological diversity and land degradation.

These include the integration of the global economy, financial markets and trade, access to media and communication technology, as well as environmental degradation due to the irresponsible use of resources.

Household subsistence strategies and local mobilization in response to new vulnerability relating to land degradation under a scenario of climate change will fail to cope without due legislative and developmental measures.

As a result, the International Meeting agreed that most small island developing States face serious challenges of land degradation due, inter alia, to inappropriate land use and poor irrigation management systems.

But the poorer countries pay much of the costs losing up to 8 of their GDP per year due to environmental degradation, as well as suffering devastating effects on health and human welfare.

As the GEF land degradation executing agency linked to the GM, IFAD has the opportunity to match land degradation to poverty reduction and development concerns.

The environmental degradation is obvious even to casual observers.

Conversely, deforestation can contribute to land degradation and desertification.

Combating deforestation and forest degradation

LADA Dryland Degradation Assessment Project

Certain projects currently in progress in countries or pilot areas are endeavouring to produce vulnerability maps of degradation or the risk of land degradation.

Other challenges facing our region include high levels of poverty and income inequality, a persistent food shortage and an emerging water shortage both due largely to drought and environmental degradation as well as to institutional, policy and resource constraints.

Theft, extortion, destruction, degradation and damage

Other negative impacts predicted included increased demand from agriculture, saltwater intrusion into coastal water resources caused by sea level rise (e.g. Cook Islands, Egypt, Vanuatu), and the degradation of water quality due to pollution, saltwater intrusion and sedimentation.

We also have to confront the serious degradation of the environment.

FIELD Financial Information Engine on Land Degradation

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

In response to questions about the anaerobic degradation of appliances in landfills, Mr. Ashford said that research was only in its early stages and that it was important to establish the nature of the degradation products before looking at what could be done to look at enhancing the process of anaerobic degradation.

Syria states that samples were collected to evaluate the degradation of each artefact.

Through conservation agriculture practices, farmers contribute to reducing emissions while combating land degradation.

The problems of poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy and environmental degradation continue to haunt us.

This contribution was provided to undertake land degradation projects in some African country Parties.

It was created before the land degradation focal area was added to the GEF.

Three different kinds of situation, all of which relate to environmental degradation, need to be distinguished.

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.

Meanwhile, the economic consequences of environmental degradation can be severe.

Dealing with deforestation and forest degradation cannot wait until 2020.

Conscious of the particular vulnerability of the small Territories to natural disasters and environmental degradation,

Conscious of the particular vulnerability of the small Territories to natural disasters and environmental degradation,

Conscious of the particular vulnerability of the small Territories to natural disasters and environmental degradation,

Conscious of the particular vulnerability of the small Territories to natural disasters and environmental degradation,

If the war on environmental degradation is to be won, we need a major turnaround.

Disagreements among different levels of government have contributed to uncontrolled logging and degradation of forestlands.

Those areas are also prone to environmental degradation and tensions between host communities and newcomers.

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

(g) Perverse subsidies and their impact on deforestation and forest degradation

The key question is are we able to combat poverty, disease, environmental degradation, terrorism and violence?

at para. 21 see also Global Mechanism, Mobilizing Resources to Combat Land Degradation and Poverty (2000).

Now my goal in showing you that is to show you that music is not robust to degradation.

It has regularly provided comments to project proposals that are to be submitted to the GEF, in order to ensure that the specific provisions and requirements advocated by the UNCCD process receive due attention in projects under the focal area on land degradation, and particularly under the GEF operational programme on sustainable land management.

Environmental degradation in Asia not only harms its population s health, but will become an impediment to growth.

This has also led to environmental degradation, and loss of resources that could otherwise benefit local communities.

Conversely, land degradation, desertification, pollution and unequal access to water and productive ecosystems diminished human well being.

Four reports emphasize the involvement of local people in monitoring and assessing initiatives to combat land degradation.

Invites the Global Environment Facility to strengthen the focal area of land degradation, primarily desertification and deforestation