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Water Use and Management
The region is now experiencing significant degradation problems, including increased toxic algal blooms, salinisation of irrigated and dryland areas and water logging. The growing demands for water from the Basin's rivers have resulted in low flows and changes to the seasonal flow patterns. These have degraded many riverine environments. In order to ...
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books you should read - with reviews
"Strategies for an alternative global nation" which involves alternative legal, political and financial strategies for facilitating permaculture. ISBN 0-908228-01- ...
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Drylands
As a result, dryland populations on average lag far behind the rest of the world on human well-being and ... land cover change, and global climate change. UNU-INWEHs programme on drylands assists developing countries in dryland areas to better manage their land resources and to achieve sustainable use of their water ...
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Sanctuary Asia - Interviews
I was based at the zoo there, but my job was to look after all the protected areas in the Haroti region of the Chambal river catchment. I was given charge of more than 1, ... proliferation of exotics. Water hyacinth is choking the water bodies. Prosopis juliflora and lantana are invading the dryland areas. Uprooting the weeds is an uphill task. We need a whole programme with botanists, zoologists and ...
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Desertification
Many dryland areas face increasingly low and erratic rainfalls, coupled with soil erosion by wind and the drying ... most significantly in Africa and Asia, will probably be most at risk to climate change. These areas already experience low rainfall, and any that falls is usually in the form of short, ...
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FAO/AGL - TERRASTAT
(Sodicity, Shallowness, Erosion Risk) Human-induced land degradation due to agricultural activities Extent of soils without major constraints Land degradation severity and population distribution Deserts and dryland areas Actual and potential available arable land Population distribution in deserts and dryland areas Country Ranking Region(s) of interest Asia and Pacific Europe ...
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Directory of arid lands research institutions 1995
Status Ongoing Findings Hydrologic index of forests in dryland areas of China (Loess Plateau); methods of afforestation in drylands through water harvesting; methods and techniques of small watershed management; ecologic and economic benefits of small ...
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Urban Areas
Urban Areas Urban Areas The image of dryland regions as rural and agrarian is incomplete. Many of the world's largest cities are located in drylands. These urban areas are centers of commerce, manufacturing, government, and culture. Beijing is located in a dry sub-humid zone in northern China, and with a population of 10 ...
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Dryland Degradation
Dryland Degradation Dryland Degradation The Earth's drylands are found in more than 110 nations, and moderate to severe land degradation has reduced the productivity of more than 70% of these areas.
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New Rice for Africa
The higher-yielding Asian species has largely replaced its African cousin. But, West African farmers in rainfed (dryland) areas cant grow the semi-dwarf rice varieties from Asia, because they dont compete well with weeds, nor do they tolerate drought and local pests. And African farmers are too poor to buy herbicides, pesticides or ...
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