The discussion covered various issues, such as Convention synergies, drought management, governance, rural land use practices, and the integration of drought mitigation into investment planning and science and technology for drought mitigation.

For example water resources management and agriculture technologies that were introduced in West Africa after the 1972 drought.

Irrigation equipment testing Desertification and water management Water harvesting technologies Climate monitoring (Risk management) Strategies drought mitigation Refining analytical systems Strategies rehabilitation of degraded lands Efficient irrigation Water recycling

Because Mongolia was vulnerable to snowfall, drought, flash floods and earthquakes, it had adopted a new law to strengthen its disaster management system and created the National Disaster Management Agency.

In Europe, the secretariat is assisting South Eastern European countries in cooperation with WMO in the establishment of a subregional drought management centre.

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In the interests of sustainable development, Kenya had taken legislative and policy measures on environmental management, biodiversity, early warning systems, drought preparedness and monitoring, climate change and the ozone layer.

Drought and desertification monitoring and assessment

One more SRAP is under preparation in each of the aforementioned three regions. In Europe, South Eeast European countries are in the process of establishing a sub regional drought management centerre

6. Urges the international community to render its assistance to the drought victims and for setting up national, subregional, regional and international disaster prevention, preparedness and management mechanisms, including early warning systems

Drought, floods, and landslides have become commonplace.

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Drought and desertification monitoring and assessment early

Drought and desertification monitoring and assessment early

The meeting agreed on the need for the establishment of a Balkan subregional drought management centre and requested that a second workshop be organized in 2005 on the terms of reference of the centre.

(ii) Drought and desertification monitoring and assessment and

warning systems for mitigating the effects of drought

desertification and or mitigating the effects of drought

When drought returned this year, these investments paid off.

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The effects of drought are even felt in the rainforests.

This area is very rarely affected by hurricanes or drought.

Some Parties proposed developing national drought policies to mitigate the adverse impacts of periodic droughts and indicated their need for a warning system to monitor the effects of drought.

The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.

Development of early warning systems for food security and drought forecasting

Development of early warning systems for food security and drought forecasting

Severe drought also threatened the lives of nearly 10 million people.

Parties were called upon to integrate measures to prevent and combat desertification and to mitigate the effects of drought by means of relevant policies and programmes, such as forest management, as well as poverty eradication and sustainable development strategies.

Noting with concern the recurrent drought that affects Ethiopia, and its consequences,

In times of drought, there is lack of water in our villages.

Noting with concern the recurrent drought that affects Ethiopia, and its consequences,

And, fortunately, this year s drought appears unlikely to cause a food crisis.

I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.

A drought or pest that destroys a harvest turns subsistence into starvation.

A severe drought was reported in the south west of the country.

Gravely concerned at the magnitude of the recurrent drought, which affects millions owing to the serious crop failures in drought prone parts of the country that have weak infrastructures and low development capacities,

In 2004, aAt the request of concerned countries country Parties affected by drought, the UNCCD secretariat, organized in 2004 in cooperation with WMO, organized a technical workshop on drought preparedness in the Balkans.

These include human resource management, financial management, meeting management, IT management, and project management.

In contrast, other measures require research and development of new systems, e.g. new drought resistant varieties or improved systems of water management for efficient or extended irrigation which might not be feasible without financial support from outside sources and from the national government.

Meanwhile, drought alone was having a devastating impact on an additional nine regions.

I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.

Some Parties proposed measures to reduce mitigate the risks of floods and drought.

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