(c) Develop the land and combat absenteeism and under use.

The LADA project paves the way for country driven, worldwide land degradation assessment and monitoring of the success of actions taken to combat land degradation.

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

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

It was helping to introduce improved agricultural techniques in order to combat desertification and restore degraded land.

355. The following measures have been taken by the Federal and Land Governments to prevent and combat illiteracy

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

The United Nations Convention to Combat Diversification was a key instrument for highlighting the linkages between poverty and land degradation.

Accordingly, the coordination bodies rely on the existing legal framework when attempting to implement an integrated approach to combat land degradation.

Also facilitated was an inter regional conference in Tashkent (10 13 June 1997), which provided a fresh impetus for international cooperation to combat desertification and land degradation in the Eurasian land mass.

An interregional conference in Tashkent, covering the Eurasian land mass, provided fresh impetus for international cooperation to combat land degradation and identified a number of areas that could be incorporated in a forthcoming interregional action programme.

The LADA task force has also started to work informally with the China GEF Asian Development Bank project on Capacity Building to Combat Land Degradation.

In general, it is essential to integrate the NAPs into macro economic policy in order to ensure more efficient programmes to combat desertification and land degradation.

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.

In December 2003, the Government of Italy announced the launching of a special programme to combat land degradation and poverty in Africa in the framework of NEPAD.

All the subregions are firmly committed to ensuring the participation of the Parties concerned, and especially civil society, in the drive to combat desertification and land degradation.

To combat this aggressive invasion of their homeland... the Russian peasant chose to welcome the French... with nothing more than a destroyed storehouse... a widely desolated land.

Forests and terrestrial ecosystems Forest management and conservation were seen by several Parties as important to protect watersheds, combat land degradation and desertification, preserve species and sequester carbon.

21 1 Land degradation support for the implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and or Desertification, Particularly in Africa

Combat troops

combat desertification

Combat vehicles

Since the main objective of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification is to address land degradation, and considering the designation of GEF as a financial mechanism of the Convention, small island developing States should fully utilize available GEF resources to develop and implement projects to address land degradation through sustainable land management.

20. We commit ourselves to strengthening the implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and or Desertification, particularly in Africa and to addressing the causes of desertification and land degradation, in order to maintain and restore land, as well as poverty resulting from land degradation.

In order to establish priorities for investment and to design, apply and monitor policies to combat land degradation, at regional and global levels, including rehabilitation of degraded lands, it is important to have a global overview of the current state of the land.

Furthermore it addresses objectives of the Action Plan for Enhancing GEF Support to Land Degradation, adopted by the GEF Council in December 1999, by contributing to the creation of an enabling environment for addressing land degradation and identifying key stakeholders with capacity to combat land degradation from local, national and subregional to international levels.

(f) Combat desertification

IV. Combat aircraft

Combat rations (reserve)

Replacements, combat limits.

442nd Combat Team.

For combat duty?

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.

In plenary, discussions were held on the basis of some 20 presentations concerning the experience of countries and organizations with the implementation of activities to combat desertification and land degradation.

Despite the high level of mobilization of those involved, the efforts made in relation to NAP preparation have not always helped to lend new impetus to efforts to combat land degradation.

ACM Aerial Combat Simulator

Combat service support troops

Action to combat trafficking

Phase 6 Combat Assessment.

action to combat racism

Convention to Combat Desertification

II. Armoured combat vehicles

efforts to combat impunity

80. Field Combat Engineer

National defense mobilization is an important link in converting and transferring combat potential into combat competence.