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… land degradation to support decision making in land and water management ” and in 2013 in Bonn on “Economic … Workshop 2.2: Agro-ecosystems Workshop 2.3: Soil and water issues Workshop 2.4: Knowledge and knowledge transfer … 49 LAND-USE IMPACTS ON PLANT DIVERSITY AND CARBON STORAGE AT …

… some neighbors claimed our trees were drawing too much water from the ground. We cut them down. Our harvests fell. … chad or afghanistan were in before local conflicts over water or land turned into civil wars, sexual violence or … sustainably. Granting users the rights to own and use the resources they depend on can reverse trends, pull the …

… O TO S: W O RL D B A N K period results from fossil fuel use, with land use change providing another signifi cant but … of feedbacks between land degradation and precipitation. Water resources are inextricably linked with climate. Annual average river runoff and water availability are projected to increase by 10-40% at …

… natural resource governance, and to strengthen the use of indicators for monitoring desertification and land … their livelihoods. As a consequence it undermines food, water and livelihood security, human health, and energy … value as well as productive value, providing food and water, fuel and fibre, employment, waste purification, and …

… or economic productivity of land resulting from land use or from processes such as water or wind erosion. The United Nations General Assembly … Dryland areas are conventionally defined in terms of water stress so that the ratio of mean annual precipitation …

… them to create appropriate institutional mechanisms and to use existing bilateral and multilateral financial mechanisms … the Convention places an obligation on all parties to make use of such existing and future arrangements of a similar … through remote sensing, atmospheric weather monitoring and water conservation monitoring, among others. …