Drylands issues are supported through the worldwide activities of the Drylands Development Centre.

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programme of work, and the provision of guidance to it

The LADA approach

The LADA project will produce a GLADA. A study to develop a methodology for land degradation assessment at global level was carried out by ISRIC in the Shaanxi Province, North China, using the remote sensing NDVI and other biophysical parameters.

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.

LADA also cooperates with UNEP in the Global Environment Outlook (GEO 4) assessment and with Desertlink and MEDCOASTLAND.

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.

The request for an assessment of the extent of land degradation in drylands came from the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), out of which the Land Degradation Assessment in Drylands (LADA) project was conceived.

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.

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

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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.

Background

To respond to the need for up to date and comparable land degradation information, the GEF has funded the LADA project to be implemented by the UNEP and executed by the FAO.

C. Achievements of the LADA project from 2002 2005

Parties may also make available data on land degradation and drylands, including the results of surveys, desertification maps, land degradation perceptions, hot spots and bright spots identified by previous assessments or through other methodologies and statistics, and related biophysical and socio economic data.

They concluded that land degradation trends pose a serious hazard to the food security, health and safety of the people located in the country's drylands.

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

Review and synthesis of data and information of relevance to the development of land degradation assessment in drylands Development, testing and revision of integration of land degradation assessment approaches and methods

Many efforts to understand, assess and monitor land degradation have been carried out in recent decades, although to date there is no mechanism in place to collect and disseminate information within countries, across regions and at international level for comparison.

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.

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.

Information dissemination and promotion of international

However, irrigated land in desert areas does come under the umbrella of LADA.

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.

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.

The majority of the country area is desert and contains little or none of the land classified as arid, semi arid, or dry sub humid that makes up drylands.

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.

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