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View Resource Re-thinking Policies to Cope With Desertification

The phenomenon and process of desertification is one that is currently threatening one-third of the world's population from Algeria to China. In December 2006, the United Nations convened a large panel of expert researchers to create a set of new, and hopefully, more effective policies that will help international organizations, national governments, and other concerned parties deal with the very...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/28_06_07unreportd...