(c) Countries with arid and semi arid areas, forested areas and areas liable to forest decay

Parties expected an increase in hyper arid, arid or semi arid areas under all climate change scenarios.

But in actual fact, the society continues to countenance practices that are a form of physical and moral violence against women.

c) Countries with arid and semi arid areas, forested areas and areas liable to forest decay d) Countries with areas prone to natural disasters

Among the technology options for rural sanitation, for example, dry latrines conserve water, offering particular benefits in arid or drought prone areas.

It involves chiefly operations in arid and semi arid regions proper, where stockbreeding activities predominate.

(b) UNSO has undertaken a study of the population in dry areas, notably in Africa. Similar studies are planned for the Asian and Latin American regions.

ICARDA International Centre for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas

E. International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas

In many parts of sub Saharan Africa, the droughts are so much worse.

Dryland, mediterranean, arid, semi arid, grassland and savannah ecosystems

It has a total area of 318 million hectares which represents 6 per cent of the world apos s arid, semi arid and dry sub humid lands (ASALS) and 25 per cent of Africa apos s ASALS.

Impressive lists of projects related to arid and semi arid zones of the Africa region are available in all areas.

Here, in the drought...

Background The Desertification Convention Desertification is the degradation of land in arid, semi arid, and dry sub humid areas.

Dry areas cover more than one third of the Earth's land surfaces.

Desertification is defined by the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification as land degradation in arid, semi arid and dry sub humid areas resulting from various factors, including climatic variations and human activities .

The majority of the country area is desert and contains little or none of the land classified as arid, semi arid, or dry sub humid that makes up drylands.

E. International Center for Agricultural Research in

In the great majority of regions featuring arid, semi arid and dry sub humid areas, one of the major weaknesses of the monitoring evaluation systems is that they are not always designed to make optimum use of the existing equipment.

For example, in Argentina aridity could expand in subtropical areas (north of latitude 40 S) due to an increase in temperature and evaporation, whereas in Armenia and Kazakhstan the arid area could expand by 20 40 per cent.

A programme has been launched by one other country with the support of the International Crop Research Institute for the Semi Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and the International Programme for Arid Land Crops (IPALAC) in order to develop new farming methods and practices in arid areas.

Reasserting its commitment to promoting desertification control, eradicating extreme poverty, promoting sustainable development in arid, semi arid and dry sub humid areas and improving the livelihoods of people affected by drought and or desertification,

A later meeting in Damascus explored options for cooperation among such institutions as The Arab Centre for the Studies of Arid Zones and Dry Lands (ACSAD), International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) and Centre for Environment and Development for Arab Region and Europe (CEDARE).

Poverty is endemic in dryland areas of the world, which includes over one hundred developing countries in all regions.

(d) Signature of the cooperation agreement with the International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), by which this international agency specializing in research on dry areas undertakes to support the AMU with SRAP implementation.

More than 90 per cent of the land in the region is hyper arid or desert, while the remaining area is classified as dry .

A study on agricultural technology for semi arid areas in East Africa has been launched with a view to developing sustainable crop production in the drylands of the subregion.

While the first phase of the programme was devoted to the arid and semi arid areas recovering from drought through food for work activities, in 2003 166 community projects were carried out in the most food insecure districts.

AGRHYMET Regional Training Centre for Agrometeorology and Operational

Arab Center for the Studies of Arid Zones and Dry Lands

Last year the region was visited by the worst drought in 60 years.

(b) Integrated study on sustainable development in arid zone

(b) Integrated study on sustainable development in arid zones

More targeted initiatives are being carried out in some countries to develop unconventional varieties of cereals and other plant varieties suited to drought and the specific conditions of arid and semi arid areas.

In this regard, ICARDA established a Regional Facilitation Unit to facilitate implementation of the regional programme.

A joint publication has been issued with the UNCCD secretariat entitled Extractive Industries in Arid and Semi Arid Zones Planning and Management which gives details of the problems associated with extractive industries in arid and semi arid lands and suggestions as to how these activities could be managed in order to promote the maintenance of the ecosystems where they are taking place.

LADA Dryland Degradation Assessment Project

2.2.2 What is UNDP apos s experience in working with governments in dryland management?

Results of the work must have an impact for the people in the drylands.

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More than 40 Parties mentioned having arid and semi arid regions that would be affected by the adverse effects of climate change.

Recognizing that low lying and other small island countries, countries with low lying coastal, arid and semi arid areas or areas liable to floods, drought and desertification, and developing countries with fragile mountainous ecosystems, are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change,

Recognizing that low lying and other small island countries, countries with low lying coastal, arid and semi arid areas or areas liable to floods, drought and desertification, and developing countries with fragile mountainous ecosystems are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change,

Recognizing further that low lying and other small island countries, countries with low lying coastal, arid and semi arid areas or areas liable to floods, drought and desertification, and developing countries with fragile mountain ecosystems are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change.