A severe drought in 1998 caused the displacement of approximately 100,000 nomadic people from the Registan desert region.

Some efforts have been made at regional level, and it has been decided in particular to set up an observatory on drought, desertification and natural disasters in countries of the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU) and the Permanent Inter State Committee on Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS).

Cooperation has continued with WMO in the context of enhancing the technical capacity of the UNCCD process and supporting drought preparedness in the Balkans.

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At the end of the dry season, their body mass may fall to half of what it was prior to the dry season.

(ii) Drought and desertification monitoring and assessment and

Drought and desertification monitoring and assessment

Severe to moderate droughts in mid 2005 affected Austria, the Balkan countries, France, Hungary, Italy, Portugal and Spain, leading to important agricultural losses.

Some efforts have been made at regional level, however, and it has been decided in particular to set up an observatory on drought and desertification in countries of the AMU and the CILSS.

In times of drought, there is lack of water in our villages.

The effects of drought are even felt in the rainforests.

We are now entering the peak of the lean season .

The discussion covered various issues, such as Convention synergies, drought management, governance, rural land use practices, and the integration of drought mitigation into investment planning and science and technology for drought mitigation.

This has been especially true in the 20th century, with the most severe drought on record beginning in the late 1960s and lasting, with one break, well into the 1980s.

When drought returned this year, these investments paid off.

and it provides shade and protects the soil against erosion

The climate is tropical with two seasons the dry season and the rainy season.

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Some Parties proposed developing national drought policies to mitigate the adverse impacts of periodic droughts and indicated their need for a warning system to monitor the effects of drought.

Drought, floods, and landslides have become commonplace.

Noting with concern the recurrent drought that affects Ethiopia, and its consequences,

Noting with concern the recurrent drought that affects Ethiopia, and its consequences,

Stocks of oral re hydration salts must be constantly replenished.

This area is very rarely affected by hurricanes or drought.

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

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The current drought covering much of East Africa far more severe than past droughts has been directly associated with climate change.

In recent months, massive droughts have struck the grain producing regions of Russia and Ukraine, and enormous floods have hit Brazil and Australia now, another drought is menacing northern China s grain belt.

But the severe dry spell parching croplands across the US is only the latest in a global cycle of increasingly frequent and damaging droughts.

Droughts and famines in Imperial Russia are known to have happened every 10 to 13 years, with average droughts happening every 5 to 7 years.

If true, China will never resolve droughts such as the current one in Guizhou by itself, regardless of how many large scale engineering projects the government undertakes, or how well organized remedial efforts are.

We see aerial photos of the Aral Sea drying up.

In contrast with the Mediterranean climate, the dry season extends beyond the summer.

The desertification problems predominantly stem from the severe times of drought in the country.

Stage 4 Butyric Fermentation The internal organs liquefy and the body begins to dry out.

Severe drought also threatened the lives of nearly 10 million people.

Most Parties reported on their participation in the observing and monitoring programme of the Comité permanent inter États de lutte contre la sécheresse au Sahel (CILSS), which is a programme established in 1975 to monitor agricultural, hydrological and meteorological phenomena within the CILSS member States.

This is Lake Lanier. My friend Heidi Cullen said that if we gave droughts names the way we give hurricanes names, we'd call the one in the southeast now Katrina, and we would say it's headed toward Atlanta.

They explained that the last three camps were set up to house people fleeing the effects of the droughts.

Droughts alone affected more than 20 million people worldwide.

A drought or pest that destroys a harvest turns subsistence into starvation.

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