Blogs about: Drylands
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Setting up a Drylands and Desert Restoration Hub (The University of Greenwich)
COST Action ES1104 ‘Arid Lands Restoration and Combat of Desertification: Setting up a Drylands and Desert Restoration Hub’ Please find attached a flyer announcing funding opportunities… more →
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Setting up a Drylands and Desert Restoration Hub (The University of Greenwich)
wrote 1 day ago: COST Action ES1104 ‘Arid Lands Restoration and Combat of Desertification: Setting up a Dryland … more →
Spineless nopales (Opuntia ficus-indica var. inermis) to be used at the global level to combat desertification (Google / Food and Nutrition Research)
wrote 1 day ago: Read at : Google Alerts – Opuntia ficus-indica http://www.foodandnutritionresearch.net/index.p … more →
Finding Solutions for Desertification and Drought (Google / Sudan Vision)
wrote 2 days ago: Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://news.sudanvisiondaily.com/details.html?rsnpid … more →
Research to boost agriculture productivity in dryland areas (CGIAR / IISD)
wrote 2 days ago: Read at : http://land-l.iisd.org/news/cgiar-research-partnership-focuses-on-dryland-agriculture/ CGI … more →
Migratory Species and Drylands (IISD)
wrote 4 days ago: Read at : http://land-l.iisd.org/news/unccd-fact-sheet-highlights-relationship-of-migratory-species- … more →
New Drylands Ambassador (IISD)
wrote 4 days ago: Read at : http://land-l.iisd.org/news/unccd-names-new-drylands-ambassador/ UNCCD Names New Drylands … more →
Celebrating achievement: Julie Ojango and Tadelle Dessie promoted
wrote 4 days ago: Julie and Tadelle cut the cake marking their promotions announced on the same day. Both were employe … more →
Reframing the pastoral narrative: Ancient mobile herding strategies to make a comeback in a hotter world
wrote 1 week ago: Fulani boy in Niger herds his family’s animals (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). Mobility to u … more →
Pastoralists in the Media: Three 'E's please
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wrote 1 week ago: Once upon a time, not so long ago, we were all mobile. Movement was what enabled our ancestors to tr … more →
Bitter Root - Lotus of the Drylands - A Root of Mother's Day
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wrote 1 week ago: . Majesty out of Stone One of the Majestic generosities of our drylands… These growing in the … more →
Kenya ministry asked to allocate greater resources to the livestock sector, particularly in arid areas
wrote 2 weeks ago: Sheep and goats in northern Kenya (photo on Flickr by gordontour). ‘The Inter-African Bureau f … more →
Promises
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wrote 2 weeks ago: Photo Source: http://nature.desktopnexus.com/wallpaper/791737/ The Sun had gone down and the evenin … more →
Extrêmement résistant à la sécheresse (IRD) - French
wrote 2 weeks ago: Lu au : http://www.france-nord.ird.fr/la-mediatheque/selection-de-media/fiches-d-actualite-scientifi … more →
Extremely drought-resistant Sahara olive tree against drought and desertification (Science Daily)
wrote 2 weeks ago: Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130503094711.htm Sahara Olive Tree: Genetic H … more →
Land degradation source of environmental concern in India (Google / Postnoon)
wrote 3 weeks ago: Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://postnoon.com/2013/04/29/desertification-india … more →
Don't let our future dry up (Google / Terra Primus)
wrote 3 weeks ago: Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://terraprimus.org/?p=612 World Day to Combat De … more →
We transform degraded land in lush savannas (Deserto Verde Burkinabe)
wrote 1 month ago: Read more: http://www.desertoverde.ch/ We transform degraded land (bare, with a few bushes and some … more →
Tiffin: dry regions, China's guidelines, permaculture, GM crops, valuing drylands, FAO saves money
wrote 1 month ago: (1) The International Instititute for Environment and Development (IIED) says that current policy na … more →
Sustainable management of dry forests (Google / UN News Centre)
wrote 1 month ago: Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=44640 … more →
