What does CCD stand for?

Convention to Combat Desertification

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The UN Convention to Combat Desertification defines desertification as " land degradation in arid, semiarid and dry subhumid areas resulting from various factors including climatic variations and human activities".

ONE- FOURTH OF INDIA HEADED FOR DESERTIFICATION

After two weeks of negotiations involving hundreds of scientists, government ministers and officials, the Ninth Session of the Conference of Parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) wrapped up today in Buenos Aires with consensus on the measurement indicators.

United States : UN meeting reaches agreement on measuring ...

in 2025, close to 70 percent could be affected," Luc Gnacadja, executive secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, said Friday.

UN warns of 70 percent desertification by 2025

This week experts from the UN Convention to Combat Desertification meeting in Turkey will warn that high food prices and endemic droughts are jeopardising the lives of hundreds of millions of people, particularly in Africa.

Drought land 'will be abandoned'

The miserly funds are allocated in Kyrgyzstan to combat land degradation, said Stats Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, Water Resources and Processing Industry, National Coordinator for Implementation of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification in Kyrgyzstan Kambarali Kasymov.

Soil fertility critical in Kyrgyzstan - expert

United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification.

Contributors describe their research in cross-sectoral tropical forest cover, decentralization as a tool in integrating demands, wood product trade and policy issues, integrating agriculture and forestry policy-making, working within the guidelines of the Unites Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, building models for broad-base partnerships in sustainable forest management and such regional issues as gender and off-reserve forest management in Ghana, road construction and its effects in China, the new importance of the Turkish forests, and urbanization of the southern timberland in the US.

Cross-sectoral policy developments in forestry

Funding is also a problem, with major donor nations cutting funding by 29 percent at the last Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in 2005, the report said.

U.N. report: Desertification a threat