Efforts in the field of genetic research are focused on the development of conventional cereal, tree and other plant varieties which are suited to drought and the special conditions found in arid and semi arid zones.

Dry China

It is not particularly sensitive to soil moisture, although it does not grow in desert or arid conditions.

(a) The high proportion of arid, semi arid and dry sub humid areas

(a) the high proportion of arid, semi arid and dry sub humid areas

Efforts in the field of genetic research are focused on the development of cereal, tree and other varieties which are suited to drought and the specific conditions found in arid and semi arid zones.

It is caused primarily by human activities and climatic variations.

(iv) Addressing the special needs of countries with arid and semi arid areas due to water scarcity

It involves chiefly operations in arid and semi arid regions proper, where stockbreeding activities predominate.

From barren rock and ash covered deserts

We are entering the barren lands of Las Hurdes.

Impressive lists of projects related to arid and semi arid zones of the Africa region are available in all areas.

Australia is investigating means of initiating a research programme on the ecological problems facing arid and semi arid regions.

A programme has been launched by one other country with the support of the International Crop Research Institute for the Semi Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and the International Programme for Arid Land Crops (IPALAC) in order to develop new farming methods and practices in arid areas.

The reports note scant involvement by the private sector, owing in particular to the fact that arid and semi arid zones are not perceived as areas of opportunity for investors.

Parties expected an increase in hyper arid, arid or semi arid areas under all climate change scenarios.

Further goals at national level should be to increase awareness and to stimulate public debate concerning the sustainable management of natural resources in arid and semi arid areas.49.

Drought and desertification threatened some 900 million of the planet apos s population, particularly in the arid and semi arid regions of Africa.

UNESCO has also launched a scientific flagship project entitled Sustainable Integrated Management and Development of Arid and Semi Arid Regions of Southern Africa (SIMDAS) .

(o) Support regional and subregional arrangements, to protect water resources from pollution, addressing the specific needs of arid, semi arid and coastal countries

Particular efforts should be devoted to agricultural development, agricultural extension, rural community development, development of arid and semi arid zones, environment and water and energy resources.

(h) quot Affected areas quot means arid, semi arid and or dry sub humid areas affected or threatened by desertification

(h) quot affected areas quot means arid, semi arid and or dry sub humid areas affected or threatened by desertification

clinging to rock, and eating it too ... transforming barren land.

Arab Center for the Studies of Arid Zones and Dry Lands

Fungi married algae ... clinging to rock, and eating it too ... transforming barren land.

Another project was designed to protect super arid, arid and semi arid grassland ecosystems in Mongolia through developing a national biodiversity conservation area network.

(c) Promote processes and activities relating to combating desertification and or mitigating the effects of drought within the arid, semi arid and dry sub humid areas of Africa.

(c) promote processes and activities relating to combating desertification and or mitigating the effects of drought within the arid, semi arid and dry sub humid areas of Africa.

The interlinkages can pose acute challenges for water and waste water management in arid and semi arid areas and also in small island developing States.

Their objective is to avoid land degradation and desertification through improper agricultural practices, especially in arid, semi arid, and sub humid regions.

6. Desertification is defined by UNEP as land degradation in arid, semi arid and dry subhumid areas resulting from adverse human impact.

The population growth rate far exceeds the rate of food production arid and semi arid lands are being marginalized or wasted and poverty and the displacement of people are on the increase.

It constrains the food production potential in the drylands.

(a) quot Desertification quot means land degradation in arid, semi arid and dry sub humid areas resulting from various factors, including climatic variations and human activities

Assuring adequate supplies of clean water for human and animal consumption and agricultural irrigation is essential to rural development and poses a major problem in semi arid and arid areas.

(a) quot desertification quot means land degradation in arid, semi arid and dry sub humid areas resulting from various factors, including climatic variations and human activities

Now you are told over and over, repeatedly, that desertification is only occurring in arid and semi arid areas of the world, and that tall grasslands like this one, in high rainfall, are of no consequence.

Water Programme for Africa and Arid and Water Scarce Zones

The stakeholders and institutions of the affected countries have not yet succeeded in adopting innovative and attractive approaches for medium and long term investments in their arid, semi arid and dry sub humid areas.

A study on agricultural technology for semi arid areas in East Africa has been launched with a view to developing sustainable crop production in the drylands of the subregion.

PARIS April is the cruelest month, wrote T.S. Eliot at the beginning of his great poem, The Waste Land.

South of these mountains lies a barren desert region known as the Hamad.

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Aware that arid, semi arid and dry sub humid areas together account for a significant proportion of the Earth apos s land area and are the habitat and source of livelihood for a large segment of its population,