Experts address the question: Are poverty and land degradation inevitable in desert-prone areas?

Abstract

The Natural Resources Forum is running a special series over the 2007–2009 period on themes to be considered by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development in its 16th and 17th sessions: Africa, agriculture, desertification, drought, land and rural development. The Viewpoints in this issue will focus on the vulnerability of desert-prone areas. Experts address the question: “Are poverty and land degradation inevitable in desert-prone areas?”