The Last Wall Against Desertification
Tue, 2014-06-17 13:09 by Medspring Agora team
Building resilience for smallholder farmers in marginal drylands.
"While dryland communities face harsh realities due to degraded lands, there is also much to be built upon and learnt from their ingenuity and resilience, which is a key piece of this debate and critical to developing solutions.
Adding to and enhancing these success stories is a feature of the CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Systems, where partnerships between local communities, researchers and governments are being built to scale up these positive examples"
[via CGIAR's Dryland Systems Research Program]
Today is World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought: follow #WDCD2014 to learn more.
