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3rd UNCCD Scientific Conference: Book of abstracts

… 26 ANALYSIS OF CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT BY MODELING HYDRIC EROSION TO SOILS OF AGUASCALIENTES, MEXICO LÓPEZ, SANTOS … APPROACH TO CHARACTERIZE AND UNDERSTAND THE NATURE OF WIND EROSION APPEARANCE UNDER UNTYPICAL CONDITIONS OF UKRAINE WEST … 45 WIND EROSION QUANTIFICATION AND MOVING DUNES IMPACTS IN THE SOUTH …
25 May 2026 Document in Climate and Atmosphere

What is Agrodiversity

… of the aquatic environment exacerbate the genetic erosion of agrobiodiversity. Fallow fields and wildlands can … aquatic biodiversity. The main cause of the genetic erosion of crops – as reported by almost all countries – is … or exotic varieties and species. Frequently, genetic erosion occurs as old varieties in farmers’ fields are …
25 May 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

Desertification - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… from land use or from processes such as water or wind erosion. The United Nations General Assembly coined the term … and sparsely covered by vegetation are susceptible to erosion. Infrequent rains are particularly erosive, … and reduce vegetation cover, thereby exposing land to erosion by rain and wind. Landslides also occur easily. …
25 May 2026 Course lesson in Climate and Atmosphere

Desertification and Climate Change

… land degradation owing to droughts and increased soil erosion owing to heavy rainfall events. CLIMATE CHANGE AND … land degradation owing to droughts and increased soil erosion owing to heavy rainfall events. CLIMATE CHANGE AND … land degradation owing to droughts and increased soil erosion owing to heavy rainfall events. CLIMATE CHANGE AND …
25 May 2026 Document in Climate and Atmosphere

United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Countries experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, particularly in Africa - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… and desertification would, for example, include soil erosion control measures, famine relief programmes, and … to the integrated development of land, control of soil erosion, deforestation, reclamation of degraded land and … the government of Burkina Faso to develop appropriate soil erosion control techniques. The government of Canada may …
25 May 2026 Course lesson in Climate and Atmosphere

Introduction to the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

… breeders were the first to start using the term ‘genetic erosion’, indicating the gradual but serious loss of crop … production systems.1 Recent research confirms that genetic erosion did indeed take place at the time of the shift from … 1. 8 FAO (2009a), p. 2. Key points to remember: l Genetic erosion describes the loss of genetic diversity – both the …
25 May 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

Conservation and Sustainable Use under the International Treaty

… in order to reduce crop vulnerability and genetic erosion. Box 1.1 below provides an example of genetic … Information regarding the threat from and rate of genetic erosion among various components of agricultural biodiversity … impacts of climate change, are main drivers of genetic erosion. l CWR provide genetic variability that can be …
25 May 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

The Land in Numbers

… one-third of the world’s arable land has been lost to erosion and continues to be lost at a rate of more than 10 … 9. Pimentel, David: Soil Erosion: A food and environmental threat, p.1. …
25 May 2026 Document in Climate and Atmosphere

Introduction to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands

… hundreds of kilometres inland, often lead to widespread erosion and thereby large increases in sediment load in … due to a combination of lack of sediment input, enhanced erosion and severe reduction in nutrient load. Such problems …
25 May 2026 Course lesson in Biological Diversity

Introductory Course to Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

… hundreds of kilometres inland, often lead to widespread erosion and thereby large increases in sediment load in … due to a combination of lack of sediment input, enhanced erosion and severe reduction in nutrient load. Such problems …
25 May 2026 Course lesson in Biological Diversity