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Desertification projects and programmes

Multilaterals

 

Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Capacity building to combat land degradation

European Union

Concerted action to support the Northern Mediterranean regional action programme to combat desertification

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Land degradation assessment in drylands

Global Environment Facility (GEF)

Land degradation – project database

International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Projects related to desertification

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

Programmes

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Programme on success stories in land degradation/desertification control

The World Conservation Union (IUCN)

Drylands – projects

World Bank

 

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Bilaterals

Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
Projects on environment

 

Comite Scientifique Français de la Désertification (CSFD)

Projects

European Commission

DeSurvey: a surveillance system for assessing and monitoring of desertification

German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ)
Environment and management of natural resources

 

German Federal Ministry of Economic Co-operation and Development (BMZ)

Preserving soils

International Development Research Centre (IDRC)

Rural poverty and environment program initiative

Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA)

SAREC supported dryland research programmes in East Africa

 

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Research institutes

Centre for Arid Zone Research (CAZR)

Projects

Centre for Arid Zone Studies (CAZS)

Natural resources and farming systems research

Drylands Coordination Group (DCG)

Activities

FEWS Net (Famine Early Warning System Network)

Program to monitor impacts of desertification and climate change in Africa

International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)

Research programme

International Centre for Soil Fertility and Agricultural Development (IFDC)

Natural resource management programme

International Crops Research Institute for the Semi Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)

Projects undertaken by the global theme on agroecosystems

World Agroforestry Centre

West Africa drylands  project

 

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Foundations

Eden Foundation

Project

 

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Partnerships

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs)

Arid Lands Information Network (ALIN)

Activities

Both Ends

Projects

International Arid Land Consortium (IALC)

Projects

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Hot links

Deserts margin program

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Land degradation assessment in drylands

International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Projects related to desertification

Multi-partner platform

TerrrAfrica

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Drylands development centre