Farming Mattters | 28.4 | December 2012
Sustainable agriculture in dry and degraded areas is about the resilience of farmers and ecosystems. With examples from different parts of the world, issue 28.4 of Farming Matters shows the importance of local knowledge and appropriate policies.
Desertification and land degradation are not just natural phenomena. They are the outcomes of a long-term over-exploitation and mismanagement of fragile ecosystems. Eighteen years after the creation of the UNCCD, the world's deserts would seem to be growing. Yet "we know what to do and how to do it" - and we can see many positive examples, and many efforts to scale up the results.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial – From desertification to vibrant communities by Edith van Walsum
Drynet’s 18th birthday present to the UNCCD by Nathalie van Haren, Patrice Burger, Duygu Kutluay, Nahid Naghizadeh, Khadija Razavi
Dams and alpacas by Fernando Camiloaga Jiménez
A pathway to change by Patti Kristjanson, Ewen Le Borgne
Opinion: Land sovereignty by Eric Holt-Giménez
Tackling degradation together by Mohammed El Hassan Ali
Kaluchi Thakarwadi: Rejuvenated landscape, rejuvenated lives by Watershed Organisation Trust
Opinion: Grass for carbon by David Millar
UNCCD: Striving for a land-degradation neutral world by Mia Rowan
Roles and regulations for trees on farmland by Frank van Schoubroeck, Mamadou Fall
Evidence of success by Jorge Chavez-Tafur
Development 3.0: Development practice in transition by Cees Leeuwis, Todd Crane, Stephen Sherwood
True champions by Joy Daniel
Farmers in focus: Retiring to dairy farming by Linda Moono