(6) Control of Land Degradation and Desertification processes in the insular Caribbean

Land Degradation 250 million Obtaining assistance Eligibility requirements GEF grants that are made available through the financial mechanisms of the conventions shall be in conformity with the eligibility criteria decided by the COPs under the agreement (i.e., the MOU) made with each convention.

Reintroduction of indigenous vegetation will help with the degradation of the land.

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

Poverty must be estimated as the result of a group of causes, of which land degradation is one.

The Global Environment Facility (GEF) attaches great importance to combating soil degradation.

At the regional and subregional levels, FAO has initiated and prepared the Land Degradation Assessment in the Drylands (LADA), used to develop tools and methods to assess and quantify the nature, extent and severity of land degradation.

It has made this one of its areas of activity and has adopted a specific operational programme for the purpose.

Projects have been launched with a view to developing appropriate tools to assess and quantify the impact and extent of land and ecosystem degradation.

It is caused primarily by human activities and climatic variations.

It is not possible in practice to develop a single methodology to measure the relationship between land degradation and poverty.

The theoretical principles developed from practice in the assessment of the degradation poverty relationship are important.

Land degradation is sometimes monitored under regional programmes or in cooperation with international agencies.

Disagreements among different levels of government have contributed to uncontrolled logging and degradation of forestlands.

at para. 21 see also Global Mechanism, Mobilizing Resources to Combat Land Degradation and Poverty (2000).

Coordination of ongoing projects relating to land degradation assessment and rehabilitation, with integrated ecosystem managements should take place.

Stressing the need for further diversification of funding sources to address land degradation, in accordance with articles 20 and 21 of the Convention,

Stressing the need for further diversification of funding sources to address land degradation, in accordance with articles 20 and 21 of the Convention,

As the GEF land degradation executing agency linked to the GM, IFAD has the opportunity to match land degradation to poverty reduction and development concerns.

They are keen to mobilize expertise available in universities, research institutes and institutions specializing in monitoring and assessing land degradation.

Global Mechanism website, Financial Information on Land Degradation Funders (2001), at http www.gm unccd.org FIELD Funds.htm.

Land degradation is a major threat, with some 73 per cent of the land being lightly to very severely degraded as the result of overgrazing, wind and water erosion, the inefficient use of water resources and political tensions.

The Parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands approved during the eighth session of its COP a series of resolutions relating to joint efforts to combat land degradation and drought.

Four reports emphasize the involvement of local people in monitoring and assessing initiatives to combat land degradation.

The GEF addresses land degradation as a cross cutting issue in the other GEF focal areas.

Global Mechanism of the UNCCD, Financial Information on Land Degradation Funders (2001), http www.gm unccd.org FIELD Funds.htm.

Vulnerability components, risk intensity and response capacity, with their particular indicators, form the basis for the integral assessment of land degradation and poverty.

Land degradation assessment projects are currently being implemented or pending in the NAPs and subregional action programmes (SRAPs).

LADA builds up national, regional and global assessment capacities in order to be able to design and plan interventions to mitigate land degradation.

Global Mechanism of the UNCCD, Mobilizing Resources to Combat Land Degradation and Poverty (2000), http www.gm unccd.org English DOCS GMe.pdf.

The Summit urged the international community to make use of the Convention in addressing land degradation and as a tool to assist in addressing, inter alia, poverty and hunger.

It was also observed that assisting the people who are experiencing land degradation and providing recommendations for action is the main task of the group.

Has the Financial Information Engine on Land Degradation (FIELD) of the Global Mechanism's (GM) been fully developed and can could it be used to generate new or updated reports in the future?

In addition to a worsening of socio economic conditions, that had led to the division of the occupied Palestinian territories into enclaves that were completely isolated from one another.

The overall goal of the WP activity is to identify conservation and rehabilitation case studies and technologies which address issues relating to the control of land degradation.

The participants from west Africa will develop capacities to reflect more critically on land degradation and rural livelihood issues.

A working paper on land degradation (Guidelines for Field Assessment) was made available at the UNU website for training purposes.

Fellowship programmes for postgraduate and young scientists to make fuller use of the various specialized academic institutions on land degradation and desertification should also be supported.

One report clearly states that land degradation is not monitored and assessed on account of a shortage of human and financial resources.

Halting land degradation and promoting environmental rehabilitation should, to the extent possible, involve vulnerable and marginalized groups by creating opportunities for alternative income generating activities.

Other significant environmental problems include land degradation caused by deforestation and inappropriate agricultural practices, water loss, and mangrove clearance for aquaculture.

Recognizing the need for the provision of adequate resources for Global Environment Facility focal areas, including a focus on land degradation, primarily desertification and deforestation,

In 2006, FAO will implement the Land Degradation Assessment in Drylands programme, which will provide and disseminate a number of information and awareness documents.

The GEF's Small Grants Programme (SGP) managed by UNDP was recently amended to include the focal area of land degradation.

The integration of measures to combat land degradation into specific mechanisms such as the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol should be encouraged, with the support of the secretariats of the three Rio conventions.