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All provinces of the country in Pakistan are severely affected by floods after heavy monsoon rains, which started to come heavily in the last week of July 2010 in Pakistan. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has said that the disaster caus... [Plus]

Results and lessons learned from working together in 22 countries In three years the DRYNET programme (officially entitled ‘Strengthening civil society networks to address dryland degradation and poverty issues in the context of strategic development frameworks and ... [télécharger]

Le Sénégal, à l’instar de la communauté internationale, organise presque chaque année la journée du 17 juin, journée mondiale de lutte contre la désertification. Cette année 2010, des activités de sensibilisation ont été menées à Joal-Fadiouth et d’autres localités du ... [Plus]

June 17th marks the World Day to Combat Desertification, as on this day the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) was adopted in 1994 at Paris. Drought and desertification is a silent but serious environmental crisis which is affecting about 1 billi... [Plus]

Today it's World Day to Combat Desertification. This year's theme is "Enhancing soils anywhere enhances life everywhere", in line with the International Year dedicated to Biodiversity. With this theme, the UN Convention to Combat Desertification aims to sensitize the pub... [Plus]

A new Both ENDS briefing paper "Agriculture and Food Security in Africa's Drylands - Meeting the realities of Small-scale Farmers". This paper argues that marrying local practice and scientific knowledge and that ensuring the participation of CSO’s in linking local peop... [Plus]

The province of Baluchistan composes about 44% of the total geographical area of Pakistan and only 5% of its area is arable, the rest consisting of arid and semi-arid rangelands. About 80% of the population is rural and, for various reasons, economic development is lagg... [Plus]

Biochar accounts for an important source of carbon sequestration and is being high in the climate change discussion as a carbon-negative product. It results from a heat treatment of organic material in an oxygen-limited environment (pyrolyis) in the soils. The outcome ca... [Plus]

The International Land Coalition (ILC) stressed the importance of improved governance of land and natural resources to reduce land degradation and improve the livelihoods of the rural poor during a side event at COP-9, on 23 September 2009. The event, organized in collab... [Plus]

This week and the next, people who have an interest in drylands gather in Buenos Aires for the Conference of Parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, which is held there at the moment. A large delegation of Drynet members has also travelled to Argentina an... [Plus]

Saffron Flowers and Sunken Gardens: Inspiring Initiatives Reversing Dryland Degradation and Strengthening Livelihoods. Local initiatives often fall outside the scope and sight of policy makers, whereas so many inspiring initiatives to counter degradation and desertific... [Plus]

The 17th session of the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD), a two year cycle where among other issues agriculture, rural development, land, drought, desertification and Africa were discussed, is now finished and most delegates are simply satisfied with the fact ... [Plus]

Information and knowledge sharing, coordination, communication, lobbying, setting common positions, influence in decision making processes are sound reasons for networking around issues of common concern. It was to meet these needs in the context of the United Nations C... [Plus]

Responding to climate change in the drylands: EMG will be launching a knowledge sharing platform for adaptation in the South African drylands This month Drynet South Africa, the Environmental Monitoring Group and Indigo development & change will be hosting a workshop f... [Plus]

Today, June 17th, is the World Day to Combat Desertification. For this occasion we have put together the following images illustrating the beauty, diversity and strength of drylands and their inhabitants. Let yourself become inspired!(double click on the image and watch ... [Plus]

Today is Desertification Day, a day to focus on desertification problems around the world, and this year researchers are joining hands with farmers around the world to stand up to one of the greatest, yet most overlooked environmental problems.   As the global eco... [Plus]

The paradigm shift came about already some years ago at ICRISAT, the International Centre for Research in Semi-Arid tropics. In former times their main focus was to increase yield in agriculture to cope with an ever growing population on earth. This aim did not hold agai... [Plus]

As Lao Tsu noted millennia ago, “change is the only constant in the universe”. Recognition by the IPCC that the climate is rapidly changing and will affect the world’s most vulnerable communities most severely has put adaptation high on the global agenda. What does this ... [Plus]

Combating desertification and drought is one of the key thematic issues to be discussed during this years annual meeting of the Commission on Sustainable Development, which is held at the moment in New York, against the backdrop of interrelated issues such as agricultur... [Plus]

The UNCCD Secretariat has launched an initiative to revise the procedures for the participation of non- governmental organisations in UNCCD processes and events, including clear selection criteria and a mechanism to ensure a balance of participants from different regions... [Plus]

  A large part of earth's surface is covered by dry areas: some 40%, in fact, and over two thirds of Africa. Most of the poorest people on earth, some 70% of the undernourished - over 600 million people - live in these areas. Funding and initiatives to fight desertif... [Plus]

Comparing carbon emissions from milk production in peri-urban dairies versus drylands   Purpose: To collate arguments and convince policy makers of the rationale for investing in milk collection systems in drylands, as a means of alleviating poverty, conserving biodi... [Plus]

The African Drought Risk and Development Network is focused on promoting applied exchange of experience on key issues linking drought risk and development; providing a platform for the development and dissemination of good practice & tools; is a bridge to various resourc... [Plus]

The World Water Forum is the main water-related event in the world, aimed at putting water firmly on the international agenda. A stepping stone towards global collaboration on water problems, the Forum offers the water community and policy-and-decision-makers from all ov... [Plus]

Drynet partner LPPS from India has been interviewed for a programme of the BBC Radio World Service called "Return of the Nomad", by Susie Emmett. Follow the link and find out more about the work of LPPS, the Raika people and their camels:   http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer... [Plus]

DCG is searching for consultants who can conduct evaluations of our program in Ethiopia and Mali, respectively. The application deadline to submit a bid for the one of these assignments is March 23rd 2009.   [Plus]

February 23rd The term bioremediation of soils refers to a series of strategies used to “remedy” soils that have been contaminated and/or degraded by agricultural activities and other contaminants (agrochemicals, fertilisers, hydrocarbon spills, mining activities and ot... [Plus]

We are very pleased to announce that ITC was selected to be a European Partner in this so-called EMMA programme (Erasmus Mundus Mobility with Asia) ITC - the International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation - offers courses in Applied Earth Scien... [Plus]

The UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) Secretariat is conducting consultations on the draft communication strategy through an online discussion group. Based on the group’s input, the communication strategy will be redrafted in February 2009 and is expected t... [Plus]

This strong and to some people surprising conclusion comes from a recent research Drynet has commissioned SOS Sahel to do. The findings from this study, along with examples from India and Iran, were presented by Drynet partners during the recent CRIC7 in Istanbul. Drynet... [Plus]

In collaboration with partners from other networks, Drynet has called for action on how the UNCCD can more effectively build on a combination of the most recent, cutting edge research, and the wealth of evolving local knowledge from affected communities and CSOs, in a ne... [Plus]

The seventh session of the Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) is taking place in Istanbul simultaneously with the First Special Session of the Committee on Science and Technology (CST) from No... [Plus]

Drynet partner EMG and their Organic Rooibos initiative with the Heiveld Co-operative finalist for BBC World Challenge 08   Now in its fourth year, World Challenge 08 is a global competition aimed at finding projects or small businesses from around the world that ha... [Plus]

  Drynet wants to commission a research study on the following issue: Carbon Sequestration, Biofuels and Sahelian Pastoralism: A Threat or Opportunity? Background is the emerging nature of the biofuels threat and subsequent lack of credible literature on the subject... [télécharger]

Side Event IUCN World Congress, Barcelona IUCN Aliances Workshop 1055 [Plus]

In 2007, COP8 of the UNCCD adopted a 10-year strategic plan and framework to enhance the implementation of the UNCCD. The CSO networks eniD and Drynet wrote a position paper for COP8 which calls for more practical details and decisions relevant for civil society in this ... [Plus]

By: Ilse Köhler-Rollefson* - LIFE-Network   With the Olympics underway, the world's attention is focused on China and sports. However, here is a report about China in a completely different context. Ilse Köhler-Rollefson of the LPP spent a fortnight in the country... [Plus]

PROBIOMA receives a national distinction for its contribution, through technological innovation, to the fight against desertification.   [Plus]

India has to wait a while longer for its bio-fuel policy which was due in the second week of July. The national daily The Hindu (July 14 2008) has stated that political uncertainty over the India-US nuclear deal has delayed the announcement of the bio-fuel policy which ... [Plus]

The Society for Conservation and Protection of Environment (SCOPE), Pakistan, celebrated June 17th. the World Day to Combat Desertification (WDD), by organizing a walk at Mithi, District Tharparkar. The participants, who were carrying tree sapling in their hands, as a ... [Plus]

Drylands and deserts environments impart a certain spirit of resilience and hardiness among their inhabitants. If these qualities meet entrepreneurial zeal, it is interesting to see the results. When Nancy Abeiderrahmane arrived in Mauritania in 1970, she was surprised ... [Plus]

DRYNET's Latin American Partners (OLCA, Instituto Sertao, and PROBIOMA) together with Both ENDS, successfully held their first regional meeting in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. [Plus]

  Just Published: Drynet Global Newsletter no. 1 April 2008 [Plus]

German scientists met on an interdisciplinary workshop about pastoral land use management in drylands during a week-end in Leipzig, Feb 2/3 in 2008. The drynet initiative was very well received and lead to a discussion about a transdisciplinary approach. The report of th... [Plus]

An interview by Namitha Dipak (LPPS) with Shree Padre, farmer, water  journalist,  and rainwater harvesting "evangelist" based in Kerala, India. [télécharger]

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Vice-Minister of Environmental Protection of Kazakhstan opens GEF Evaluation Office Central Asia Regional Consultation on Evaluating Climate Change and Development [Plus]

The Third Annual Microinsurance Conference took place in Mumbai, India, from 13-15 November 2007. Drynet representative Namitha Dipak of LPPS-Drynet attended the proceedings of this conference and presents this report. [télécharger]

November 26 - December 1 [Plus]

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29-31 Octobre [Plus]

During COP8 in Madrid, on the 5th of September, Drynet organised an innovative side event during the eighth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). The open, participatory and interactive event bro... [Plus]

(extracted from Fact Sheet "Biofuels in the European Union: An Agricultural Perspective" by Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development), European Commission 2006. [Plus]

Dr. Mannava V.K. Sivakumar, Chief of the Agricultural Meteorology Division of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) speaks to Namitha Dipak of DRYNET on September 7th, 2007 at Madrid, Spain. Videography courtesy Silke Brehm. An edited version of the interview appe... [Plus]

Drynet will be present at the Conference of the Parties of the UN Convention to Combat desertification which will be held from 3-14 September in Madrid, Spain. They will be organising a side event in a whole new and interactive setting. The side event will take place on ... [Plus]

On June 17th, several Drynet partners organised a press conference to officially launch Drynet for the press. For each partner, the briefing to the press was focused on the regional situation. Click here to download the general press release. Or, click on the links bel... [Plus]

Ricardo Cifuentess, OLCA, Chile) With field trips to visit rural communities that are developing successful initiatives to fight desertification in Northern Brazil, the 14 Drynet partners inaugurated their joint participation in the project. [Plus]