UNIDO has also developed a programme to rehabilitate and recover degraded land.

The study shows that the highest net present value for palm oil is on land that's been degraded.

(i) Measures for the rehabilitation of degraded land and for early warning systems for mitigating the effects of drought

Successful case studies are sought which bring the already degraded land back into productive use for creating sustainable livelihoods.

Rehabilitation of degraded land Most countries have programmes for rehabilitation and also cite lack of funding as a primary hindrance.

It's degraded.

In Africa, the ongoing initiatives for rehabilitating degraded land are focused on reforestation, soil conservation and integrated management of water resources.

Their activities are mainly concerned with the recovery of degraded land, the rehabilitation of the natural environment, and water and soil conservation.

And the numbers of people living in an area that the land cannot support, who are too poor to buy food, who can't move away because the whole land is degraded.

It was also put forward that measures for the rehabilitation of degraded land should be further elaborated, as it was the case in the past.

It's muffled English. It's degraded Japanese.

Land degradation is a major threat, with some 73 per cent of the land being lightly to very severely degraded as the result of overgrazing, wind and water erosion, the inefficient use of water resources and political tensions.

There actually is something here, but it's degraded.

In Western Africa, FAO implemented the Italy funded project Forests and Food Security in Sahelian Africa , contributing to mitigate the effects of desertification through knowledge transfer and recovering degraded land.

There isn't time to go into it, but it's including things like tree nurseries, methods of farming most suitable to this now very degraded, almost desert like land up in these mountains.

Some are already deserts others are being seriously degraded by the sand.

We've returned more than four billion gallons of water to degraded ecosystems.

Some 10 20 per cent of drylands are already degraded (medium certainty).

Options include improved ecosystem management, rehabilitation of degraded ecosystems and wetlands protection.

The projects and programmes conducted in the area of the rehabilitation of degraded land do not always include appropriate mechanisms for evaluating the impact of the activities involved or for determining the area of land rehabilitated, for which figures are given in less than a quarter of the reports.

It its report, the FAO points out that the rehabilitation of degraded land is a long term battle, requiring an appropriate political and institutional framework to be put in place, able to ensure the support and participation of farmers, stockbreeders, forestry workers and other users of the land.

Much is known about how trees and agroforestry can benefit smallholders and farmers and there are well developed systems for using trees to help maintain and improve soil fertility, rehabilitate degraded land and protect water resources.

They've funded research that shows that we can double global palm oil production without cutting a single tree in the next 20 years, and do it all in Borneo alone by planting on land that's already degraded.

The initiatives aimed at rehabilitating degraded land are mainly focused on the regeneration of the natural environment, the management of water resources, the promotion of renewable energies, the strengthening of food security and awareness building among stakeholders.

This view of the world is a consequence of having studied degraded reefs.

And the native language for a child with such a brain is degraded.

As a result, the operational capacity of the LRA has been degraded tremendously.

Rehabilitation and restoration of degraded lands, and the promotion of natural and planted forests

It mentions support for the implementation of models aimed at the rehabilitation of severely degraded areas.

The IUCN Regional Office for West Africa resumed dialogues between the main actors in the implementation of the Convention so as to present the UNCCD as a more holistic organization in terms of conserving natural resources and not just working with degraded land.

The fish is degraded 20 percent, 50 percent and then the one I showed you, 70 percent.

What will we and all future generations lose if much of the living environment is thus degraded?

This is an area way outside the National Park, stretching out into all these very degraded lands.

And if He tests him and restricts his livelihood thereupon he says, My Lord has degraded me!

And if He tests him and restricts his livelihood thereupon he says, My Lord has degraded me!

(a) Environmental conservation and the recuperation of degraded ecosystems, for example, innovative programmes in reforestation and agroforestry

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) emphasizes the need to promote energy crops on degraded lands.

The UNIDO programme is designed to promote energy plantation on degraded land through family and cooperative farms, to support the transfer and adaptation of appropriate technologies and to create the suitable institutional environment, technical capacities and financial mechanisms needed to enhance bio diesel production.

Maybe our neural centers in our brain are degraded such that we're unable to process negative emotions anymore.

Economies of scale tend to favour uniform approaches in large scale centralised schemes for the restoration of degraded lands.

In Indonesia, efforts are focused on rehabilitating degraded natural forests and involve not only government agencies but also private companies.

Irrespective of whether the hazard is meteorological, such as a cyclone, epidemiological, such as a cholera outbreak, or hydrological, such as a drought, Southern Africa apos s most disaster prone communities are those already vulnerable due to poverty, isolation, and dependence on degraded land and location in crowded informal settlements.

What's amazing is that working with such highly degraded input, the baby, very quickly, is able to discover meaning in such input.

Furthermore, a degraded macroeconomic and financial environment increases the likelihood of bank failures, with immediate consequences for public finances and economic confidence.

And those who scored high on the ESP scale, tended to not only see more patterns in the degraded images but incorrect patterns.