Land improvements and structures

The secretariat has continued to promote a project targeting dryland rehabilitation through the provision of employment and resources to youth.

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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 for mitigating the effects of drought

In the course of 2004, a 10 country project on the use of gum arabic for land rehabilitation and economic development in dryland areas in Africa was prepared.

Measures for the rehabilitation of degraded lands and the creation of early warning systems to mitigate the effects of drought

Measures for the rehabilitation of degraded lands and the creation of early warning systems to mitigate the effects of drought

Ways of reclaiming overused farmland, so that within two years they can again be productive.

In Egypt, IFAD is currently financing the reclamation of desert to improve the irrigation infrastructure, agricultural research and finance targeted to land labourers.

Projects and programmes in the area of rehabilitation of degraded land do not always provide for mechanisms for evaluating the impact of their activities and determining the area of the rehabilitated land.

In Venezuela, land reform and socialist rhetoric did not prevent chronic shortages of milk, sugar, and beef.

Thousands of deaths and injuries had been caused by those landmines and other explosive remnants of war, which had also prevented the reclamation and cultivation of extensive areas of Libyan land.

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.

In Africa, the ongoing initiatives for rehabilitating degraded land are focused on reforestation, soil conservation and integrated management of water resources.

Several reports stress the need for better water management for the rehabilitation of developed land, combined with the management of pastoral and agricultural forest pastoral lands.

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.

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The LADA approach

It its report, the FAO points out that the rehabilitation of degraded land is a long term battle, requiring an appropriate political and institutional framework to be put in place, able to ensure the support and participation of farmers, stockbreeders, forestry workers and other users of the land.

Land reclamation, religious donations, and building projects expanded slowly before 1050, increased to 1100, accelerated sharply with the opening of new lands between c. 1140 and c. 1210 and continued at a lower level from 1220 to 1300.

But the command of hydraulics, the use of water for irrigation, damming, land reclamation and, of course, sewage was extremely important for, for changing the nature of the relations between the country and the city.

Beginning in 1907 the German colonial administration began land reforms and required newly created owners to perform 15 days of labor per year for public works in lieu of taxes.

The initiatives aimed at restoring degraded land are principally structured around regeneration of the natural environment, management of water resources, promotion of renewable energies, strengthening of food security and awareness creation.

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

This does not necessarily mean that there was already a settlement then since reclamation of land may not have been for farming it may have been for peat, used as fuel.

There is a need to educate the public and stimulate discussion about sustainable development of resources in arid and semi arid zones, so as to prompt greater awareness on the part of those involved and secure their commitment to efforts to rehabilitate degraded land.

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

Amendments to the draft decision on land use, land use change and forestry (Text B in FCCC KP CMP 2005 3 Add.1)

The same Fund also financed a project to assess the rehabilitation prospects of a textile factory in Gulbahar, Afghanistan.

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.

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.

The Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development has taken the lead in disaster response management.

Land use, land use change and forestry

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

The draft resolution entitled UNIDO activities in the Palestinian territories was adopted for recommendation to the plenary.

Information dissemination and promotion of international

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

The Special Rapporteur is concerned to note that ceasefire groups have also allegedly insisted upon forced labour by the civilian population for tasks including clearing tracts through the jungle and preparing land for crop cultivation.

Grassland to forested land Cropland to forested land Wetland to forested land Settlement to forested land.

Agriculture When adjusting emissions from agricultural soils, preference should be given to tier 1.a methods as provided in the IPCC good practice guidance.

In the FAO's opinion, stockbreeders must be involved in rangeland rehabilitation measures.

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