We're going to the dry season now.

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

Gravely concerned at the magnitude of the current drought, which may affect up to fifteen million people owing to the serious crop failures in drought prone parts of the country that have weak infrastructures and low development capacities,

My inability to swim has been one of my greatest humiliations and embarrassments.

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!

This report evaluates the condition of desertification in drylands, including hyper arid areas, by asking pointed questions and providing answers based exclusively on the reports generated for the MA.

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.

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.

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,

Scientists have linked the El Niño that began in 1997, for example, to extraordinarily dry conditions that withered crops and caused widespread forest fires in Indonesia, Malaysia and parts of Brazil, not because people were less cautious than usual, but because of extreme drought.

Drought also affects the urban population, with Djibouti ville facing severe water shortages, especially in the summer months.

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.

In addition to ensuring a complex post conflict situation, Afghanistan was also vulnerable to natural disasters, such as drought and earthquakes.

20. Droughts, floods and storms accounted for emergency situations among vulnerable rural populations in many countries.

Drought and desertification monitoring and assessment early

Committee on Science and Technology

Here, in the drought...

Noting with concern the prevailing serious drought situation in the Horn of Africa, in particular the affected areas of Somalia,

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).

(ii) Identify, as appropriate, new scientific and technological approaches with particular reference to the multidisciplinary aspects of combating desertification and mitigating the effects of drought.

(ii) Identify, as appropriate, new scientific and technological approaches with particular reference to the multidisciplinary aspects of combating desertification and mitigating the effects of drought.

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.

In 1996, FAO established an ad hoc Interdepartmental Working Group on Desertification (IDWG) with the aim of facilitating the coordination of relevant FAO programmes and other mechanisms in the area of dryland development, desertification control and drought mitigation.

IPALAC International Programme for Arid Land Crops

The LADA approach

(g) Desertification and drought