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Combating Land Degradation in Sub-Saharan Africa Summary Proceedings of the International Planning Workshop for a Desert Margins Initiative 23 - 26 Jan 1995, Nairobi , Kenya

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Title Combating Land Degradation in Sub-Saharan Africa Summary Proceedings of the International Planning Workshop for a Desert Margins Initiative 23 - 26 Jan 1995, Nairobi , Kenya
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description Ov e r 80 par t icipant s i n thi s Wo r k s h o p f r o m internat ional , regional , nat ional , and
nongovernmental organizat ions me t to discuss a Deser t Margins Ini t iat ive aimed at
developing sustainable natural resource management opt ions t o ar rest land degradat
i o n i n the deser t margins of sub-Saharan Af r i ca. Thi s i s a proposed addi t ion t o other
ecoregional ini t iat ives under the auspices of the Technical Advisor y Commi t t e e of
the Consul tat i ve Gr o u p on Internat ional Research. De v e l o pme n t const raint s i n the
deser t margins of Botswana, Burkina Faso, Kenya, Ma l i , Namibia, and Niger are
o u t l i n e d . Fol lowing a statement of the goal and st rategy, nine speci f ic object ives and
e x p e c t e d outcomes are given i n detai l . Agreed organizat ion and management proposals
for the Ini t iat ive are descr ibed.
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Contributor Sivakumar, M V K
Wills, J B
 
Date 1995
 
Type Book
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/2426/1/RA00285.pdf
Sivakumar, M V K and Wills, J B, eds. (1995) Combating Land Degradation in Sub-Saharan Africa Summary Proceedings of the International Planning Workshop for a Desert Margins Initiative 23 - 26 Jan 1995, Nairobi , Kenya. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics. ISBN 92906228X