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Two billion people live in drylands, where extraordinary biodiversity exists next to grinding poverty. Modern farming and climate change suggest that the future of drylands may be less stable than in the past.
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Opinions and Analysis
Agriculture can adapt to climate change
Innovative agricultural technologies can produce crops that meet climate change challenges, says ICRISAT head William Dar.
20 November 2009
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Scientific strategies can save dryland agriculture
Climate change will make Indian dryland agriculture harder, but a scientific strategy offers real hope, says ICRISAT head William D. Dar.
15 July 2009
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Dryland development needs science and sustainability
30 April 2009
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Policy Briefs
People, deserts and drylands in the developing world
Growing dryland populations are depleting their natural resources, while increasingly-settled agriculture ignores the traditional knowledge needed to tackle future uncertainties, says David Thomas.
1 October 2006
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The UN Convention to Combat Desertification
Ten years since the UNCCD came into force, the problems remain. Despite some successes, varying definitions and restricted finance limit the convention's effectiveness, as Lindsay Stringer explains.
1 October 2006
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News and Features
Saviour tree turns scourge in Kenya
Kenyan forestry specialists, acting on research by scientists, are trying to control a tree said to threaten up to 27 million hectares of land.
24 November 2009
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Uniting drylands research could halt looming crisis
Scientists have urged the UN's desertification convention to unite research on land degradation and so convince policymakers to take action.
Desert greening could slow climate change
16 September 2009
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Source: ScienceNOW
Arab environment 'under threat'
10 March 2009
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Information Services
Missed the Global Health Forum 2009?
Our blog, by SciDev.Net columnist Priya Shetty, will fill you in, as will our interview with the Global Forum's Gill Samuels
