In North Africa, natural resource degradation and depletion, especially water, is an increasingly serious problem.

Our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated.

IFAD supported a workshop in March 2004 on innovations and participatory research in farming with emphasis on natural resource management and preventing land degradation.

Our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated. (A 59 2005, para.

Integrated natural resource management

While many executives have traditionally underappreciated the risks from climate change and resource degradation, understanding water risk and acting to minimize it is just one way that businesses are starting to incorporate natural resource management into their core strategy and operations.

Environmental degradation, lack of equitable water resource management, natural disasters, the technology divide and the difficulty of obtaining access to international markets were among the problems that needed to be tackled.

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,

This has put greater pressure on the natural environment and increased the risks of land degradation.

(g) To protect our natural resource base in support of development.

And, despite Africa s huge natural resource deposits, heavy manufacturing remains elusive.

Second, natural resource prices are volatile, and managing this volatility is hard.

Market access, road services and natural resource management must also be developed.

In particular, there is a need to de link natural resource consumption from economic growth, so that growth in the economy does not lead to a concomitant growth in natural resource consumption.

Natural resource crisis conditions prevail, particularly with respect to water, land and energy.

Those are related to hunger, disease, natural resource management, environmental pollution and climate change.

The Plan encourages an accelerated shift towards sustainable consumption and production, where appropriate de linking economic growth and environmental degradation through improved efficiency and sustainability in the use of resources and reduced resource degradation, pollution and waste.

It recently found a new source of wealth, natural gas, but may become yet another victim of the so called natural resource curse.

If invested in infrastructure, education, and external financial assets, natural resource revenues can accelerate growth.

Employment is primarily in government and industries such as natural resource extraction, shipping, and transportation.

Climate change and variability, the sea level rise and susceptibility to natural disasters and other global environmental phenomena caused environmental degradation.

Revenue from natural resource exports represented 25 of total income in the public sector in 2008.

Mismanagement of natural resource wealth underpins an especially potent self limiting pattern of growth and development.

The title of both proposals is Human and natural resource poverty Connecting stakeholder and expert knowledge .

Decades of conflict have resulted in the deterioration of the country's human and natural resource endowments.

The inflation may be severe, implying massive unjust redistributions and at least a temporary grave degradation in the price system s capacity to guide resource allocation.

The natural resource industries that globalization promotes have limited capacity to absorb employment out of traditional sectors.

Of course, natural resource companies will push back, emphasize the sanctity of contracts, and threaten to leave.

The stocks of the Western and Central Pacific are a significant natural resource for Pacific coastal States.

All countries should promote sustainable consumption and production patterns with programmes addressing the de linking of economic growth and environmental degradation through improved efficiency and sustainability in the use of resources and production processes, and reduction in resource degradation, pollution and waste.

Such cooperative efforts were the vehicles that could effectively overcome the natural resource related challenges in the region.

In order to improve natural resource management strategies, some developed countries advocate adopting an approach based on decentralization.

In order to address environmental monitoring problems, the Russian Federation uses hydrometeorological and natural resource exploration space facilities.

All our efforts will be in vain if their results are reversed by continued degradation of the environment and depletion of our natural resources.

The UNU Institute for Natural Resources in Africa will organize a pilot multidisciplinary course in Ghana, Land degradation and management in a rural livelihoods context .

It's amazing when you meet a head of state, and you say, What is your most precious natural resource?

The obvious change is that economic growth opportunities mushroomed, owing to greater monetary stability, disinflation, and natural resource wealth.

For example, measurements of GDP currently neglect the costs of natural resource replacement, pollution, and the destruction of biodiversity.

After all, the majority of their population has benefited immensely from decades of rapid, natural resource based economic growth.

If Russia remains dependent on a natural resource economy, it will again become a colossus with feet of clay.

After all, the state determines the supply of fiat money and is responsible for energy and natural resource conservation.

Investment in environmental and natural resource sustainability has been proved to yield very high returns in the long term.