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Acknowledgements...................................................................................3
Foreword..................................................................................................4
Monique Barbut, Executive Secretary, United Nations Convention
to Combat Desertification
Statement by Izabella Teixeira, Minister of the Environment, Brazil
and Tereza Campello, Minister of Social Development and Fight
against Hunger, Brazil...............................................................................7
Statment by Prof. Dr. Veysel Erog˘lu. Forestry
and Water Affairs Minister, Turkey............................................................8
Statement by Jorge Rescala Perez, Director General, National Forestry
Commission of Mexico.............................................................................9
Living Land: an introduction...................................................................10
Wagaki Wischnewski, Focal Point, United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force of
the United Nations Decade for Deserts and the Fight against Desertification
Reversing land degradation in the drylands: scaling out and monitoring
proven sustainable land management options.........................................14
Feras Ziadat, Nora Berrahmouni, Uwe Grewer Sally Bunning and Louis Bockel,
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and Theib Oweis,
International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas
Enhancing water resources management in irrigated agriculture
to cope with water scarcity in arid regions ..............................................18
Bakhodir Mirzaev, Shehzad Akram, Liban Ali Yusuf and Abdul Basit Jam,
Islamic Development Bank Group
Sustainable smallholder agriculture, food security, agricultural
policy and the role of smallholder farmers...............................................22
Umar I. Kamarah, Islamic Development Bank Group
Combating desertification: introducing integrated ecosystem
management in the People’s Republic of China.......................................25
Frank Radstake and Bruce Dunn, Asian Development Bank, Manila, Philippines
Reclamation and sustainable development of degraded lands
in the Niger basin...................................................................................29
Seyni Seydou, Project Coordinator, Niger Basin Authority and Laouali Garba,
Principal Environment Officer, African Development Bank
The right to water in the semi-arid region: managing Brazilian areas
susceptible to desertification...................................................................33
Ministry of the Environment & Ministry of Social Development and Fight
against Hunger, Brazil
The Afforestation and Erosion Control Mobilization Action Plan
in Turkey........................................................................................................ 37
M. Abdullah Yurtoglu, Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs, General
Directorate of Combating Desertification and Erosion, Department of
Combating Desertification, Turkey
Building on partnerships and strong stakeholder involvement to tackle
land degradation.....................................................................................40
Thorunn Petursdottir, Soil Conservation Service of Iceland and Hreinn
Oskarsson, Hekla Forest Project & Icelandic Forest Service
Sustainable land management in Mongolia ............................................44
Bayarbat Dashzeveg, Ministry of Environment, Green Development
and Tourism of Mongolia
Participatory saline soil management in Thailand ...................................48
Apichart Jongskul and Pranee Srihaban, Land Development Department; Worapong
Waramit and Wisit Ngamsom, Focal Point Office of Thailand to United Nations
Convention to Combat Desertification and Land Development Department
Securing the upper end of the water value chain in South Africa.............51
Christo Marais, Chief Director, Natural Resource Management Programmes,
Department of Environmental Affairs, South Africa
Translating policy into action — efforts to combat desertification,
land degradation and drought in Namibia...............................................55
Teofilus Nghitila and Bryn Canniffe, Department of Environmental Affairs,
Ministry of Environment and Tourism, Namibia
Networks to combat desertification in Portugal.......................................59
Maria José Roxo, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa; Eugénio Sequeira, Liga para
a Proteção da Natureza and Lúcio do Rosário, Institute for Nature Conservation
and Forests
Seizing opportunities for sustainable land management through targeted
policies and strategies — German engagement........................................63
Christina Seeberg-Elverfeldt, German Federal Ministry of Economic
Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
Combating desertification and land degradation in the forestry sector.....68
Mexico’s National Forestry Commission
Synergies in the fight against desertification for mitigation and
adaptation to climate change...................................................................72
Angelo Sartori, Chief & Wilfredo Alfaro, Forestry Engineer, ., Climate
Change and Environmental Services Unit, Forest Development and Support
Management Office, National Forestry Commission, Chile
The continuing fight for the rights of Pachamama — Mother Earth
— in Bolivia............................................................................................76
Ole Thonke, Ambassador and Camilla Lodberg Holck Madsen, Royal Danish
Embassy in La Paz, Bolivia
Controlling shifting sands in Kuwait: an approach for sustainable
development...........................................................................................80
Professor Doctor Raafat Misak, Environment and Life Sciences Research Center,
Kuwait Institute of Scientific Research; Member of the National Committee for
Combating Desertification at the Kuwait Environment Public Authority
Combating desertification under climate variability, climate change
and reduction of water resources in India ...............................................84
L. S. Rathore, N. Chattopadhyay and S. D. Attri, India Meteorological Department
Functional rehabilitation of desertified ecosystems in Israel:
ecological and socioecological perspectives.............................................88
David Brand, Chief Forester, Head of the Forest Department, Keren Kayemeth
LeIsrael — Jewish National Fund; Itshack Moshe, Deputy Director Southern
Region, Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael — Jewish National Fund; and Moshe
Shachak, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
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