In North Africa, natural resource degradation and depletion, especially water, is an increasingly serious problem.

This interrelationship refers to natural resource depletion degradation and pollution of land, water and air.

This interrelationship refers to natural resource depletion degradation and pollution of land, air and water.

The presentations focused on agriculture and natural resource management land use and land degradation hydrology and water resource management environmental monitoring and assessment and food and human security.

Both trends can be associated with resource degradation.

Our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated.

23. Land degradation results from natural degradation hazards, direct causes and underlying causes.

Integrated natural resource management

including natural resource management

IFAD supported a workshop in March 2004 on innovations and participatory research in farming with emphasis on natural resource management and preventing land degradation.

In general, incorporation of space based solutions reduced the cost and time of map production and improved natural resource management and monitoring of land degradation.

Our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated. (A 59 2005, para.

Natural resource management and environmental monitoring

Since the poor are often most vulnerable to the impact of natural resource depletion and environmental degradation, promoting a more rational use of natural resources is also consistent with the goal of poverty alleviation.

including natural resource management ..... 132 136 44

What is your most precious natural resource?

While many executives have traditionally underappreciated the risks from climate change and resource degradation, understanding water risk and acting to minimize it is just one way that businesses are starting to incorporate natural resource management into their core strategy and operations.

Environmental degradation, lack of equitable water resource management, natural disasters, the technology divide and the difficulty of obtaining access to international markets were among the problems that needed to be tackled.

Efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if degradation and natural resource depletion, including loss of forests and illegal activities in the forest sector, continue unabated.

20. Under subprogramme 6, Natural resources and energy, emphasis will be given to natural resource management, sustainable resource development and appraisal of energy resources.

The degradation of natural resources and ecosystems poses a major threat to humankind.

But let us not forget the Secretary General's warning that our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated.

These issues contribute to environmental degradation through the unsustainable practices of utilizing natural resources.

Presented by the Network for Women in Natural Resource Management.

24. Natural degradation hazards are conditions of the natural environment which lead to high susceptibility to degradation, such as steep slopes, rains of high intensity, strong leaching in humid regions and drought in dry regions.

Efforts are under way to develop a large scale investment programme in sustainable mountain development that could have far reaching results in combating poverty and natural resource degradation in the country's poor mountainous areas.

(f) The heavy reliance of populations on natural resources for subsistence which, compounded by the effects of demographic trends and factors, a weak technological base and unsustainable production practices, contributes to serious resource degradation

(f) the heavy reliance of populations on natural resources for subsistence which, compounded by the effects of demographic trends and factors, a weak technological base and unsustainable production practices, contributes to serious resource degradation

Conscious of the particular vulnerability of the small Territories to natural disasters and environmental degradation,

Conscious of the particular vulnerability of the small Territories to natural disasters and environmental degradation,

Conscious of the particular vulnerability of the small Territories to natural disasters and environmental degradation,

Conscious of the particular vulnerability of the small Territories to natural disasters and environmental degradation,

There is, therefore, strong pressure on our natural resources and subsequent degradation of the environment.

Conscious of the particular vulnerability of the small Territories to natural disasters and environmental degradation,

Conscious of the particular vulnerability of the small Territories to natural disasters and environmental degradation,

(g) To protect our natural resource base in support of development.

And, despite Africa s huge natural resource deposits, heavy manufacturing remains elusive.

(g) To protect our natural resource base in support of development.

This has put greater pressure on the natural environment and increased the risks of land degradation.

(iii) Monitoring and assessing ecological degradation to provide reliable and timely information on the process and dynamics of resource degradation in order to facilitate better policy formulations and responses.

(iii) monitoring and assessing ecological degradation to provide reliable and timely information on the process and dynamics of resource degradation in order to facilitate better policy formulations and responses.

Second, natural resource prices are volatile, and managing this volatility is hard.

Market access, road services and natural resource management must also be developed.

Encourage a basin wide approach to natural resource conservation and management and

Environmental degradation perpetuates poverty, as the poorest attempt to survive on a diminishing resource base (see FAO, 1991).