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

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.

Drought!

AGRHYMET Regional Training Centre for Agrometeorology and Operational

Arab Center for the Studies of Arid Zones and Dry Lands

Drought

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

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Drought management.

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.

LADA Dryland Degradation Assessment Project

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

Permanent Inter State Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS)

Formally, the MA definition encompasses all lands where the climate is classified as dry sub humid, semi arid, arid or hyper arid.

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Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place and let the dry land appear.

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,

3. Permanent Inter State Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS).

And those are the dry land species.

LADA Dryland Degradation Assessment Project

mitigate the effects of drought

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.

IGAD CILSS UMA SADC ACSAD, etc.

Drought and desertification monitoring and assessment early

Committee on Science and Technology

Here, in the drought...

Mention is also made of partnership agreements with the major international agricultural research centres of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) specializing in arid and semi arid zones, such as the International Centre for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA) and the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi Arid Tropics (ICRISAT).

Closer cooperation has been sought with specialized organizations that deal with drought, agricultural production and productivity in drylands.

Statements were made by the representatives of the Asian Development Bank and the Arab Center for the Studies of Arid Zones and Dry Lands.

IPALAC International Programme for Arid Land Crops

The LADA approach

(g) Desertification and drought

Efforts in the field of genetic research are focused on the development of conventional cereal, tree and other plant varieties which are suited to drought and the special conditions found in arid and semi arid zones.

The establishment of the IUCN drylands specialists task force and the Arid Lands Initiative stimulated the realization of cross regional, subregional and national activities to improve dryland management and sustainable use of its biodiversity.

Drought and desertification monitoring and assessment early

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

Arab Center for the Study of Arid Zones and Drylands (ACSAD) databases of water resources, soils, plants, animals and climatology development of high yielding, drought tolerant and disease resistant wheat and barley varieties development of genepools of drought tolerant fruit trees establishment of genebanks for the collection of important sheep and goat strains.

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.

(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.

The Western Asia region has always experienced a low level of natural water availability, especially in arid or extremely arid climatic zones.

That's what drought does.

Item 10 of the provisional agenda

Freshwater Resources in Arid Lands

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

Others experienced prolonged droughts, while some suffered from both droughts and excessive rains.