Drynet

A global initiative, giving future to drylands.

Today 70% of the victims of serious and permanent undernourishment – an estimated 600 million people – live in semi-arid and arid ecosystems or “drylands”. Examples of drylands are deserts, grasslands and savannahs, which currently cover 41% of the global land area. Natural resources, cultivation and livestock-rearing remain centrally important to the economies and livelihoods of the majority of people who live in drylands.

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Latest drynet news:

05.12.2022

Drynet welcomes Indigo as the incoming host organisation for the Network Coordinator

29.04.2022

CBD Geneva Negotiations

By Ana Di Pangracio, environmental lawyer. She works at FARN, a Drynet member. From March 14 to 29 in Geneva, Switzerland, the Convention on Biological…

19.04.2022

Iran’s Nature Lost a Loving and Kind Mother!

Dr. Khadija Catherine Razavi passed away on April 15 2022. Defenders of the environment, nature conservation and indigenous and local communities of Iran, have lost…

Latest drynet initiatives:

14.06.2018

30 anos por el Manejo Forestal Comunitario

This article looks at developments during the last 30 years at the Manejo Communal Forest in Peru, where AIDER has been active. Initiatives are centred on…

Namibia 15.10.2015

Development of sustainable rangeland management practises in the communal lands of Namibia

Degradation of rangelands in drylands is occurring at an alarming rate worldwide both in developed and developing countries. Conventional rangeland management assumes overstocking to be the main cause of degradation and thus frequently recommends reducing stock numbers to fixed stocking rates as the primary management intervention. However, …

EMGSouth Africa 15.10.2015

Identification, demonstration and adoption of appropriate eco-technologies to ensure sustainable resource management in Kwazulu Natal, Limpopo and Mpumalanga Provinces

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