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

The Arab Organization for Agricultural Development (AOAD) promotes and facilitates implementation of the UNCCD programmes relevant to the rehabilitation of degraded lands in the Arab countries.

UNIDO has also developed a programme to rehabilitate and recover degraded land.

Rehabilitation and restoration of degraded lands, and the promotion of natural and planted forests

Rehabilitation of degraded land in Africa is generally perceived as a long term process.

(i) Measures for the rehabilitation of degraded land and for early warning systems for mitigating the effects of drought

Their activities are mainly concerned with the recovery of degraded land, the rehabilitation of the natural environment, and water and soil conservation.

It was also put forward that measures for the rehabilitation of degraded land should be further elaborated, as it was the case in the past.

E. Measures for the rehabilitation of degraded land and for early warning systems

E. Measures for the rehabilitation of degraded land and for early

Article 3, paragraph 3 For the purposes of Article 3, paragraph 3, eligible activities are those direct human induced afforestation, reforestation and or deforestation activities that meet the requirements set forth in this annex and that started on or after 1 January 1990 and before 31 December of the last year of the commitment period.

Rehabilitation of degraded land Most countries have programmes for rehabilitation and also cite lack of funding as a primary hindrance.

Economies of scale tend to favour uniform approaches in large scale centralised schemes for the restoration of degraded lands.

A large part of agricultural land requires drainage.

Options include improved ecosystem management, rehabilitation of degraded ecosystems and wetlands protection.

Agricultural parcels continue to be fragmented and reduced.

Most of the benefit from land for investors has to be from the profit that agribusiness can make from their operations, not just from the appreciation of the price of land.

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The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) emphasizes the need to promote energy crops on degraded lands.

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

The projects and programmes conducted in the area of the rehabilitation of degraded land do not always include appropriate mechanisms for evaluating the impact of the activities involved or for determining the area of land rehabilitated, for which figures are given in less than a quarter of the reports.

This amounts to 1.7 of the world s agricultural land.

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

Angola is a potentially rich agricultural country, with fertile soils, a favourable climate, and about 57.4 million ha of agricultural land, including more than 5.0 million ha of arable land.

They cultivate very small plots of land, with very low agricultural productivity.

Of the agricultural land, 6.9 is used for growing crops and 6.0 is pastures.

Initiatives for the rehabilitation of degraded land in the context of reforestation, agricultural productivity, integrated farming and animal husbandry, rain water catchments, alternative renewable energies or the banning of slash and burn practices are reported to show positive results.

Measures of agricultural policy should encourage amalgamation of property to allow for application of updated agro techniques and higher yields.

Successful case studies are sought which bring the already degraded land back into productive use for creating sustainable livelihoods.

The imposition of a border zone has gobbled up 29 of the strip s agricultural land.

The price of farmland hasn t grown so fast as to make investors rich.

agricultural land in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The current spatial arrangement of agricultural land is unsustainable for the organization of modern market production.

Agricultural soils are currently a net source of atmospheric carbon dioxide.

It has three main objectives control of illegal logging, control of forest fire, and rehabilitation and reforestation of degraded lands.

The broad, cultivated valley lowlands contain about half of the country's richest farmlands.

But my favorite dark horse bubble candidate for the next decade or so is farmland and not just because there have been stories in recent months of booming farmland prices in the US and the United Kingdom.

By the second half the 13th century, Pagan had developed an enormous amount of cultivated lands.

The Israeli forces had also destroyed thousands of hectares of arable land and hundreds of wells and agricultural warehouses.

Moreover, growing urbanization and other non agricultural uses of land have reduced acreage available for food production, while agricultural land is increasingly used to produce commodities other than food, such as bio fuels.

This was reflected in the decision to suspend the set aside rule that requires a proportion of agricultural land to lie fallow.

Furthermore, less than 5 of agricultural land is irrigated, and improved crop varieties are rarely used.

While there is a land shortage on the urbanised main island of Tongatapu (where 70 of the population resides), there is farmland available in the outlying islands.

After the war, from 2003 to 2004 only 2.9 million ha of the available agricultural land was cultivated.

Support to the local communities and cities in subject of agrarian land management in coordination with the extension and the inquiry.