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

Their objective is to avoid land degradation and desertification through improper agricultural practices, especially in arid, semi arid, and sub humid regions.

6. Desertification is defined by UNEP as land degradation in arid, semi arid and dry subhumid areas resulting from adverse human impact.

1. Arid semi arid

About 80 percent of Iran apos s total land area has an arid or semi arid climate and is thus vulnerable to desertification.

But the land was arid, and the work backbreaking, and it took hours..

(a) quot Desertification quot means land degradation in arid, semi arid and dry sub humid areas resulting from various factors, including climatic variations and human activities

(a) quot desertification quot means land degradation in arid, semi arid and dry sub humid areas resulting from various factors, including climatic variations and human activities

The degradation of the land in arid, semi arid and sub humid areas is the result of a number of factors, including climatic variations and human activity.

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.

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

34. The ESCWA countries are predominantly arid and semi arid.

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.

(b) quot Combating desertification quot includes activities which are part of the integrated development of land in arid, semi arid and dry sub humid areas for sustainable development which are aimed at

(b) quot combating desertification quot includes activities which are part of the integrated development of land in arid, semi arid and dry sub humid areas for sustainable development which are aimed at

Desertification is defined by the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification as land degradation in arid, semi arid and dry sub humid areas resulting from various factors, including climatic variations and human activities .

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

(a) The high proportion of arid, semi arid and dry sub humid areas

(a) the high proportion of arid, semi arid and dry sub humid areas

Another project was designed to protect super arid, arid and semi arid grassland ecosystems in Mongolia through developing a national biodiversity conservation area network.

It involves chiefly operations in arid and semi arid regions proper, where stockbreeding activities predominate.

In this context, the Convention to combat desertification brings hope to those populations whose daily lives are affected by the scourge of land degradation and natural resources in arid, semi arid and and dry sub humid areas.

National Committee for Arid Zones

Aware that arid, semi arid and dry sub humid areas together account for a significant proportion of the Earth apos s land area and are the habitat and source of livelihood for a large segment of its population,

The wilderness and the arid land shall be glad and the desert shall rejoice and blossom like the tulip. (Isaiah 35 1)

(iv) Addressing the special needs of countries with arid and semi arid areas due to water scarcity

Furthermore, in November 1994, an international workshop on arid land crops will take place in Israel at Ben Gurion University in the Negev.

More than 90 per cent of the land in the region is hyper arid or desert, while the remaining area is classified as dry .

Australia is investigating means of initiating a research programme on the ecological problems facing arid and semi arid regions.

Impressive lists of projects related to arid and semi arid zones of the Africa region are available in all areas.

(h) quot Affected areas quot means arid, semi arid and or dry sub humid areas affected or threatened by desertification

(h) quot affected areas quot means arid, semi arid and or dry sub humid areas affected or threatened by desertification

It incorporates two thirds of the continent 2,700,000 square kilometres of arid land including large parts of Western Australia, South Australia, and the Northern Territory.

Activities relevant to the Committee Currently engaged in a long term project examining aspects of desertification and arid land resource management in north east Jordan.

There is a need to educate the public and stimulate discussion about sustainable development of resources in arid and semi arid zones, so as to prompt greater awareness on the part of those involved and secure their commitment to efforts to rehabilitate degraded land.

Some 70 per cent of the Australian continent is arid or semi arid, receiving less than 500 millimetres of rainfall annually.

All that research and development activity, which represented the highest degree of water control in the world, was aimed at turning arid deserts into fertile land.

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

More than 40 Parties mentioned having arid and semi arid regions that would be affected by the adverse effects of climate change.

(o) Support regional and subregional arrangements, to protect water resources from pollution, addressing the specific needs of arid, semi arid and coastal countries

Drought and desertification threatened some 900 million of the planet apos s population, particularly in the arid and semi arid regions of Africa.

UNESCO has also launched a scientific flagship project entitled Sustainable Integrated Management and Development of Arid and Semi Arid Regions of Southern Africa (SIMDAS) .

The differences in governments and economies should not prevent us from doing together what can be done together combating the desert and offering fertility to an arid land.

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.

Water Programme for Africa and Arid and Water Scarce Zones