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Drylands and Mission Critical Research Areas for the CGIAR. A report to the CGIAR Fund Council from the Dryland Systems Task Force.

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Title Drylands and Mission Critical Research Areas for the CGIAR. A report to the CGIAR Fund Council from the Dryland Systems Task Force.
 
Creator Stringer, Lindsay
 
Contributor Reed, Mark
Faye, Bernard
de Leeuw, Jan
Whitbread, Anthony
Robinson, Lance W.
Mapedza, Everisto
Fleskens, Luuk
Thomas, Richard
 
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Description Drylands occupy 41% of global land surface and are inhabited by more than 2.5 billion people,
living mainly in developing countries with about 16% living in chronic poverty. Shockingly 42% of
children less than 5 years of age in drylands of Asia and 27% in drylands of Africa are
malnourished leading to stunted growth1.These are the poorest, hungriest, least healthy and
most marginalized people in the world2. Converging factors including poverty and unemployment
related to high population growth rates, weak governance, low inherent agricultural productivity,
low levels of investment, climate change and land degradation, result in resource scarcity and
the undermining of agricultural livelihoods.
Dryland systems research can in the medium-long term improve agricultural livelihoods, nutrition
and the environment of over 100 million dryland inhabitants and enable the wise use of
ecosystem services valued at several hundred $/ha 8,9 on up to 300 million ha (10% of drylands)
or 190 million ha of degraded drylands. The value proposition is based on integrated systems
research, which develops and tests, with farming households and development partners, feasible
combinations of technical, market, governance and policy options. Together these options
improve agricultural livelihood systems.
 
Date 2016-02-16T10:46:53Z
2016-02-16T10:46:53Z
 
Type Report
 
Identifier http://cgiarweb.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/CRP-DS_MissionCriticalResearchAreas_Final.pdf
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Lindsay Stringer, Mark Reed, Bernard Faye, Jan de Leeuw, Anthony Whitbread, Lance W. Robinson, Everisto Mapedza, Luuk Fleskens, Richard Thomas. (4/4/2015). Drylands and Mission Critical Research Areas for the CGIAR. A report to the CGIAR Fund Council from the Dryland Systems Task Force. Amman, Jordan: CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Systems (DS).
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766/4505
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Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-4.0
 
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Publisher CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Systems (DS)