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… THE LAND IN NUMBERS LIVELIHOODS AT A TIPPING POINT FOREWORD … the numbers highlight how much we rely on productive land. Amongst other valuable services, land feeds our … have the potential for land rehabilitation and forest restoration. 45 • The cost of land restoration ranges from …

… March 2015, Cancún, Mexico “Combating desertifi cation/land degradation and drought for poverty reduction and … Mexico http://3sc.unccd.int “Combating desertification/land degradation and drought for poverty reduction and … by way of reducing degradation processes and scaling up restoration activities, the objective is to maintain and …

… afghanistan were in before local conflicts over water or land turned into civil wars, sexual violence or genocide. nor … a billion inhabitants are rural, a majority lives off the land and desertification is a constant threat to their … drought effects 1975 2003 InvesTIng In large-scale resToraTIon InITIaTIves the climatic effects on land occur at …

… Development Bank AFOLU Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use AMCOW African Ministers’ Council on Water CBD … 6 Lao PDR Lao People’s Democratic Republic LULUCF Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry MDBA Murray-Darling … change, because forests can act as carbon sinks; their restoration and preservation is one of the feasible ways to …

… we face are complex. But by better implementing good land management practices, we can simultaneously help … and secure sustainable agricultural and energy production. Land truly is the glue that holds our societies together. … bodies to demonstrate the multiple benefits of land restoration by profiling successful interventions that offer …

… joint action to mitigate the impacts of pollution from land- based activities or from other sources. … Protection of the Mediterranean Sea against Pollution from Land- Based Sources was adopted on 17 May 1980 and entered into force on 17 July 1983. Land- based pollution presents 80% of harm done to the …

… a number of conventions dealing with matters related to land degradation, desertification and/or drought, such as the … focusing specifically on the problem of desertification, land degradation and drought is the United Nations Convention … objectives that relate to the integrated development of land, control of soil erosion, deforestation, reclamation of …

… damage to the oceans is caused by sea-based and land-based pollution, unsustainable exploitation of living … management derives from wildlife management, born on land, involving direct manipulation of the habitat and … of pollution including the protection, preservation, restoration and sustainable and rational use of the …

… impact; To ensure conservation and, where necessary, restoration of ecosystems. Actions designed to deal with … on the recognition that the hydrological linkage between land, freshwater river basins and coastal waters does not …

… grow within NOx emission inventories as emissions from land-based sources are reduced progressively. 52 UPDATED … This is a 157,000-km2 area consisting of a strip of land 1,100 km long and averaging 140 km in width stretching … as specified in tables 1 and 2. For the purposes of restoration and maintenance of buildings and vintage vehicles …