31.08.2020
Launch of the AVACLIM project
The AVACLIM project was developed by Drynet member CARI in collaboration with Both ENDS, EMG and other members. Its full title is “Agroecology, ensuring food…
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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31.08.2020
The Drynet Podcast Series: “Good Food for a Better Normal”
The Drynet podcast series “Good Food for a Better Normal” is a series of conversations with visionary experts from around the world, exploring some of…
30.08.2020
UNCCD Science-Policy Interface launches a competition to design land-use planning software for Land Degradation Neutrality
This article is reproduced with thanks to the UNCCD, originally published here. Bonn, 20 July 2020 – An international technology competition to design software that…
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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
Identification, demonstration and adoption of appropriate eco-technologies to ensure sustainable resource management in Kwazulu Natal, Limpopo and Mpumalanga Provinces
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