The year 2006 was declared the International Year of Deserts and Desertification by the United Nations General Assembly. The Year aims to raise $20 million...

Poverty 2003 – International Year of Deserts and Desertification (IYDD) 2002 – Land Degradation "UN Convention to Combat Desertification: World Day to...

was declared "International Year of Deserts and Desertification" but debates have ensued regarding how effective the International Year was in practice...

3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 7th year of the 2000s decade. 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. January...

development of deserts has occurred naturally over long intervals of time. The modern study of desertification emerged from the study of the 1980s drought...

12 December 2023. "Beaver Day (7th April)". Days Of The Year. Retrieved 7 April 2020. "International Beaver Day - April 7". National Day Calendar. Retrieved...

Deserts and xeric shrublands are a biome defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature. Deserts and xeric (ancient Greek xērós, “dry") shrublands form the...

The deserts of Australia or the Australian deserts cover about 2,700,000 km2 (1,000,000 sq mi), or 18% of the Australian mainland, but about 35% of the...

of international interest or concern; examples include World Tuberculosis Day, Earth Day, and the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. The...

of desertification or by their geographical location. Deserts are formed by weathering processes as large variations in temperature between day and night...

of afforestation or revegetation of deserts for ecological restoration (biodiversity), sustainable farming and forestry, but also for reclamation of natural...

reforestation and soil conservation. A 10.3 million km2 area, or 34.2% of the continent's surface, is at risk of desertification. If the deserts (Sahara and Kalahari)...

the International Year of Deserts and Desertification by the United Nations General Assembly. The free 2h25m concert, sponsored by the Kingdom of Morocco...

through desertification, most rapidly on the southern edge into China, which is seeing 3,600 km2 (1,390 sq mi) of grassland overtaken every year. Dust storms...

address at Connecticut College. She supported the International Year of Deserts and Desertification program. In November 2006, she spearheaded the United...

(2011). Desertification: A visual Synthesis. GRAPHI 4 Press, Bresson France. pp. 1-52. Lester RB (2006). The Earth is shrinking: Advancing Deserts and Rising...

Nuclear Weapons International Dance Day International Year of Deserts and Desertification International Day of Disabled Persons Year of the Dolphin World...

supplies of potable water. As for the land, two main issues of Yemen are overgrazing and desertification. Yemen has signed several international agreements:...

Semi-Deserts: 14% (381,486 km2) Steppes: 26% (708,474 km2) Forests: only 5.5% (149,870 km2) Deserts + Semi-Deserts: 58% (1,580,442 km2) Deserts + Semi-Deserts...

greatly among the towns of the eastern and western coastal areas, the densely populated interior oases, and the vast, almost empty deserts. Saudi Arabia is bounded...

Special Report on Climate Change and Land (SRCCL), also known as the "Special Report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land...

2006: International Year of Deserts and Desertification 2007–2009: International Year of Planet Earth United Nations International Years Year of the Dolphin:...

one of 56 artists from Bergamo to donate works for an exhibition and auction in recognition of the International Year of Deserts and Desertification, to...

and Kyzyl Kum deserts are expanding at a rate surpassed on a planetary scale only by the desertification process in the Sahara and Sahel regions of Africa...

It is the only true desert to receive less precipitation than polar deserts, and the largest fog desert in the world. The area has been used as an experimentation...

The Geography of Pakistan (Urdu: جغرافیۂ پاکِستان) encompasses a wide variety of landscapes varying from plains to deserts, forests, and plateaus ranging...

topic for WED 2006 was Deserts and Desertification and the slogan was "Don't desert drylands". The slogan emphasised the importance of protecting drylands...

the village of Himtasar, where 120 households were part of the pilot project. The choice of fruit trees allowed the anti-desertification campaign to serve...

Desert Architecture at the International Drylands, Deserts and Desertification Conference organized by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev's Blaustein Institutes...

world and the third-largest desert overall, smaller only than the deserts of Antarctica and the northern Arctic. The name "Sahara" is derived from Arabic:...