Desertification, drought, poverty and agriculture: Research lessons and opportunities
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2004
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Aleppo, Syria; Patancheru, India; and Rome, Italy: joint publication of the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), and the UNCCD Global Mechanism (GM)
Abstract
Desertification has been defined as the degradation of land in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas that results from a variety of factors including climate change and human activities such as deforestation, overgrazing of livestock, over cultivation, and irrigation practices. This report gives an historical overview of desertification, presents research priorities for reducing degradation of dryland areas, and relates progress that has been made in the drylands in the battle against desertification.
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Desertification, Dryland farming, Semiarid zones, Drought, Environmental impacts, Subhumid zones, Arid zones, Poverty, Over grazing, Livestock, Ecosystem Farm/Enterprise Scale