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.

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

During the dry season which fell for a long period of time in 1997, satellite data have a great role in detecting hot spots in various areas of Indonesia.

Drought!

AGRHYMET Regional Training Centre for Agrometeorology and Operational

Arab Center for the Studies of Arid Zones and Dry Lands

The Middle East, of which it was also a part, was one of the world apos s most extensive arid regions.

Drought

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

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.

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).

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The interlinkages can pose acute challenges for water and waste water management in arid and semi arid areas and also in small island developing States.

Drought management.

Biodiversity conservation programmes are supported by most organizations (UNEP, UNU, UNESCO, IUCN, Arab Centre for the Studies of Arid Zones and Dry Lands (ACSAD), etc.).

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

Persistent, substantial reduction in the provision of ecosystem services as a result of water scarcity, intensive use of services and climate change is a much greater threat in drylands than in non dryland systems.

Current activities of the Desert Net include the creation of a Dryland Research Center at the University of Hamburg.

Droughts impact substantially on the sector's output and result in negative growth rates.

Prices were also boosted by sharply reduced supplies from Kenya due to drought.

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)

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.

Their own precious mother, precious woman passed away July the 4th, Independence Day, 1955, the year of the drought.

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

Although like most disasters the impact of drought depends on the interplay between a natural event and socio economic policies, drought differs from most disasters in that it is slow in onset and may continue in cycles or for a prolonged period of time.

Committee on Science and Technology

Here, in the drought...

In the Democratic People s Republic of Korea, drought conditions led to a devastating famine.

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.

Conventional credit and input subsidy policies have been generally safeguarded, especially during years 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.

IPALAC International Programme for Arid Land Crops