Desertification
NDRD |
|
---|---|
Gulf Cooperation Council |
شبكة دول الأراضي القاحلة و التطوير |
Desertification
This page is under preparation and will be finished in October 2007
Let us concentrate on Sub-Saharan Africa
At present, major parts of Sub-Saharan Africa are seriously threatened by progressive desertification and in addition continue to face some of the world’s greatest development challenges. More than 200 million people are undernourished, thousands of displaced persons are accommodated in refugee camps and the quality of essential resources such as water, grazing- and arable land are seriously under threat. While income in these regions relies mainly on natural resources, desertification, caused by anthropogenic activities and enhanced by climatic changes, has massive and negative social, environmental and economic impacts. Once productive drylands are degraded, livelihoods are no longer secure, resources become overexploited, social tension increases, traditional cultural systems collapse and armed conflicts are increasingly driven by resource availability. |
|
Definition of Desertification In Art. 1 of the
"desertification" means land degradation in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas resulting from various factors, including climatic variations and human activities
PDF version (including Annex I-IV):
Desertification |
Drylands
Knowledge
Base