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

Jose Flores-Flores, Sunil Santha, David Thomas, Uriel Safriel, Hari Eswaran, Mahmoud Solh, Jon Davies, Sayyed Kowsar, Jean-Francois Bissonnette. (4/4/2008). Experts address the question: Are poverty and land degradation inevitable in desert-prone areas. Natural Resources Forum, 32 (1), pp. 77-80.

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?”