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Desertification Links

  1. Factual links

    Some of the websites providing factual information on Desertification:

    • 1.1 Reports by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA)
    • 1.2 Other international institutions addressing desertification
    • 1.3 Other websites related to desertification
  2. Partner links

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1. Factual links

1.1 Reports by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA)

Besides the "Desertification Synthesis" Report (summarized by GreenFacts in this Biodiversity study) the MA has published a series of other relevant reports on its website: www.millenniumassessment.org 

See table of contents of MA reports

1.2 Other international institutions addressing desertification
1.3 Other websites related to desertification
  • The official website of the International Year of Deserts and Desertification – 2006: www.iydd2006.org 
  • The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences of the University of Arizona houses the UNCCD Information Network Project Database at: http://ag.arizona.edu/cgi-bin/cstccd.cgi 
  • Drylandscope provides a "platform for the accumulation and refinement of knowledge pertinent to the needs of primary stakeholders in affected drylands" at: www.drylandscope.org/index.html 
  • The Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) published on its website a report entitled "Desertification: A Tale of Two Feedbacks" which addresses different aspects of desertification at: www.icsu-scope.org/downloadpubs/scope45/chapter04.html 
  • Oasis, a "global agricultural research-for-development partnership against desertification", offers information on desertification at: www.oasisglobal.net/ 
  • The International Arid Lands Consortium (IALC), a nonprofit organization dedicated to exploring the problems and solutions unique to arid and semiarid regions, provides facts and maps on deserts and arid lands at: http://ag.arizona.edu/OALS/IALC/desertfacts.html 
 

2. Partner links

Web pages of GreenFacts' partners providing information relevant to desertification:

The World Conservation Union The World Conservation Union (IUCN) provides a webpage entitled "Desertification and land degradation "
The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) announces its contribution to the International Year of Deserts and Desertification at: www.sdc.admin.ch 

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