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Control Number257427
Date and Time of Latest Transaction20140930034101.AM
General Information140930s |||||||||b ||00|||
International Standard Book Number18635520
Cataloging SourcePAGASA-DOST
Local Call Number551.58 Si9c 2006
Main Entry - Personal NameNdegwa Ndiang'ui
 Sivakumar, Mannava V.K.
Main Entry - Corporate NameUnited Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)
 World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
 Tanzania Meteorological Agency (TMA)
Title StatementClimate and land degradation edited by Mannava V.K. Sivakumar and Ndegwa Ndiang\'ui
Physical Descriptionxxvi, 623p. illus., figures, tables
Summary, Etc.Desertification is one of the most alarming processes of environmental degradation. It is about land degradation: the loss of the land's biological productivity, caused by human-induced factors and climate change, affecting one-third of the Earth's surface and over a billion people. Moreover, it can have devastating consequences in terms of social and economic costs. The impacts of land degradation on global food security and the quality  of the environment are of major significance and concern when one considers that only about 11% of the global land surface can be considered as prime land, yet, this must feed the 6 billion people inhabiting the World today and the 8.2 billion expected by the year 2020. Long-term food productivity is threatened by soil and degradation, which is now severe enough to reduce crop yields on approximately 16% of the agricultural land, especially in Africa and Central America, as well as the African pastures. The rate of land degradation is highest in Sub-Saharan Africa, where it is estimated that losses in productivity of cropping land are in the order of 0.5-1% annually, suggesting a cumulative loss of at least 20% over the last 40 years. Sustainable development of countries affected by drought and desertification can only come about through concerted efforts based on a sound understanding of the different factors that contribute to land degradation around the World. Climatic variations are recognized among the major factors contributing to land degradation, as defined in the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), and it is important to understand the respective roles of different climatic factors in land degradation. For example, development and adoption of sustainable land management practices are among the major solutions adopted to combat land degradation over drylands, but to accurately assess sustainable land management practices, the climate resources and the risk of climate-related or climate-induced natural disasters must be well known for a given region.0
Subject Added Entry - Topical TermaClimate change-desertification -- environmental degradation-land degradation -- sustainable development -- biological productivity -- 2006 -- Tanzania0
 aMeteorology
LocationaDOST PAGASA 551.58 Si9c BOOKS climatcab PAG-08-0062 1 4472 Donation 0000-00-00
  
     
 
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