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Key messages
- DESIRE video clip
- Global level
- National level
- Local stakeholder level
- Booklets & factsheets
- Factsheet 1: Science and livelihoods
- Factsheet 2: Researchers and policy makers
- Factsheet 3: Land users' views are essential
- Factsheet 4: Encouraging sustainable management
- Factsheet 5: Improving communication
- Factsheet 6: Forests in drylands
- Info-brief 1: Tackling salinization of soils in arid and semi-arid regions
- Info-brief 2: Sustainable land management enhances our soils
- Info-brief 3: Scientists and stakeholders learn to listen to one another
- Info-brief 4: Progress with monitoring
- Info-brief 5: DESIRE PhD students #1
- Info-brief 6: DESIRE PhD students #2
- Info-brief 7: Focus on Chile and Mexico
- Info-brief 8: Using land for the benefit of all
- Info-brief 9: Harnessing communication media
- Info-brief 10: Water solutions in drylands
- Info-brief 11: Greeneer solutions from the DESIRE project
- Info-brief 12: Stakeholder participation
- Info-brief 13: Lessons learned on science-NGO collaboration
- Manual of communication and dissemination
- Sharing the science
- From framework to action: the DESIRE approach to combat desertification
- Using internet technology to inform researchers, policy makers and other stakeholders about sustainable land management in drylands: experience from a large interdisciplinary and international project
- How knowledge influences a MCDM analysis: WOCAT Portuguese experience on prevention of forest fires
- WOCAT mapping, GIS and the Góis municipality
- Soil and water conservation strategies and impact on sustainable livelihood in Cape Verde – case study of Ribeira Seca watershed
- Hillslope evolution in Tabernas badlands (SE Spain) since 1995. Erosion pins and laser scanner measurements
- The use of PESERA modelling to guide the choice of Soil and Water Conservation strategies
- PESERA model application in the Portuguese study areas: Góis and Mação
- Assessment and mapping of desertification sensitivity in an insular sahelian mountain region – case study of the Ribeira Seca Watershed, Cape Verde
- Strategy of irrigation branch in Russia
- Promoting gender equality
Research themes
- Overview
- 1. Starting point
- 2. Assessment with indicators
- 3. Potential strategies
- 4. Implementing field trials
- 5. Regional scale solutions
- 6. Facilitating dissemination
- Guidance
- Manual of communication and dissemination
- Guidelines to writing a policy brief
- International dissemination opportunities for articles and press releases
- Dissemination training
- Steps for planning dissemination
- Matching information complexity to the audience
- Stakeholder involvement
- Networking, communication and media tools
- The RIFT principle
- Making videos
- Making DESIRE posters, newsletters, info-briefs, booklets and PowerPoint presentations
- Examples
- Related websites
- Guidance
Study sites
- Study site locations
- Guadalentín, Spain
- Contact the Guadalentín study site team
- Study site location
- Study site description
- Stakeholders and their sustainability goals
- Drivers, policies and laws
- Gender-related issues
- Land degradation and conservation maps
- Desertification risk assessment maps**
- Identifying strategies: Stakeholder Workshop 1
- Evaluating strategies: technologies and approaches documented
- Selecting strategies: Stakeholder Workshop 2
- Field experiments
- Minimum tillage + green manure: experimental results and conclusions
- Reduced tillage: experimental results and conclusions
- Water harvesting: experimental results and conclusions
- Simulated biophysical impact of remediation strategies and their financial viability **
- Evaluation of experimental results by stakeholders
- Evaluation of model results and remediation recommendations **
- Policy brief**
- Dissemination strategy
- Noticias del campo
- Local and national publicity**
- Scientific publications **
- Mação, Portugal
- Contact the Mação study site team
- Study site location
- Study site description
- Stakeholders and their sustainability goals
- Drivers, policies and laws
- Gender-related issues
- Land degradation and conservation maps
- Desertification risk assessment maps**
- Identifying strategies: Stakeholder Workshop 1
- Evaluating strategies: technologies and approaches documented
- Selecting strategies: Stakeholder Workshop 2
- Field experiments
- Fire strip network: experimental results and conclusions
- Simulated biophysical impact of remediation strategies and their financial viability **
- Evaluation of experimental results by stakeholders
- Evaluation of model results and remediation recommendations **
- Policy brief
- Dissemination strategy
- DESIRE video **
- Scientific publications **
- Góis, Portugal
- Contact the Góis study site team
- Study site location
- Study site description
- Stakeholders and their sustainability goals
- Drivers, policies and laws
- Gender-related issues
- Land degradation and conservation maps
- Desertification risk assessment maps**
- Identifying strategies: Stakeholder Workshop 1
- Evaluating strategies: technologies and approaches documented
- Selecting strategies: Stakeholder Workshop 2
- Field experiments
- Experimental fire video clip
- Prescribed fire: experimental results and conclusions
- Simulated biophysical impact of remediation strategies and their financial viability **
- Evaluation of experimental results by stakeholders
- Evaluation of model results and remediation recommendations **
- Policy brief**
- Dissemination strategy
- Scientific publications
- Rendina, Italy
- Contact the Rendina study site team
- Study site location
- Study site description
- Stakeholders and their sustainability goals
- Drivers, policies and laws
- Gender-related issues
- Land degradation and conservation maps
- Desertification risk assessment maps**
- Identifying strategies: Stakeholder Workshop 1
- Evaluating strategies: technologies and approaches documented
- Selecting strategies: Stakeholder Workshop 2**
- Field experiments
- Local field experiment results and conclusions**
- Simulated biophysical impact of remediation strategies and their financial viability **
- Evaluation of experimental results by stakeholders
- Evaluation of model results and remediation recommendations **
- Policy brief**
- Dissemination strategy**
- Scientific publications **
- Crete, Greece
- Contact the Crete study site team
- Study site location
- Study site description
- Stakeholders and their sustainability goals
- Drivers, policies and laws
- Gender-related issues
- Land degradation and conservation maps
- Desertification risk assessment maps**
- Identifying strategies: Stakeholder workshop 1
- Evaluating strategies: technologies and approaches documented
- Selecting strategies: Stakeholder Workshop 2
- Field experiments
- Minimum tillage: experimental results and conclusions
- Rangeland fencing: experimental results and conclusions
- Simulated biophysical impact of remediation strategies and their financial viability **
- Evaluation of experimental results by stakeholders
- Evaluation of model results and remediation recommendations **
- Policy brief**
- Dissemination strategy**
- Scientific publications **
- Nestos River Delta, Greece
- Contact the Nestos River Delta study site team
- Study site location
- Study site description
- Stakeholders and their sustainability goals
- Drivers, policies and laws
- Gender-related issues
- Land degradation and conservation maps
- Desertification risk assessment maps**
- Identifying strategies: Stakeholder Workshop 1
- Evaluating strategies: technologies and approaches documented
- Selecting strategies: Stakeholder Workshop 2
- Field experiments
- Freshwater flushing: experimental results and conclusions
- Simulated biophysical impact of remediation strategies and their financial viability **
- Evaluation of experimental results by stakeholders
- Evaluation of model results and remediation recommendations **
- Policy brief**
- Dissemination strategy**
- Scientific publications **
- Karapinar, Turkey
- Contact the Karapinar study site team
- Study site location
- Study site description
- Stakeholders and their sustainability goals
- Drivers, policies and laws
- Gender-related issues
- Land degradation and conservation maps
- Desertification risk assessment maps**
- Identifying strategies: Stakeholder Workshop 1
- Evaluating strategies: technologies and approaches documented
- Selecting strategies: Stakeholder Workshop 2
- Field experiments
- Minimum tillage: experiment results and conclusions
- Simulated biophysical impact of remediation strategies and their financial viability **
- Evaluation of experimental results by stakeholders
- Evaluation of model results and remediation recommendations **
- Policy brief
- Dissemination strategy**
- Scientific publications **
- Exchange visits between farmers from Turkish study sites
- Eskişehir, Turkey
- Contact the Eskişehir study site team
- Study site location
- Study site description
- Stakeholders and their sustainability goals
- Drivers, policies and laws
- Gender-related issues
- Land degradation and conservation maps
- Desertification risk assessment maps**
- Identifying strategies: Stakeholder Workshop 1
- Evaluating strategies: technologies and approaches documented
- Selecting strategies: Stakeholder Workshop 2
- Field experiments
- Terraces and contour tillage: experimental results and conclusions
- Simulated biophysical impact of remediation strategies and their financial viability **
- Evaluation of experimental results by stakeholders
- Evaluation of model results and remediation recommendations **
- Policy brief
- Dissemination strategy**
- Scientific publications **
- Exchange visits between farmers from Turkish study sites
- Eskişehir Study Site Field Guide
- Sehoul, Morocco
- Contact the Sehoul study site team
- Study site location
- Study site description
- Stakeholders and their sustainability goals
- Drivers, policies and laws
- Gender-related issues
- Land degradation and conservation maps
- Desertification risk assessment maps**
- Identifying strategies: Stakeholder Workshop 1
- Evaluating strategies: technologies and approaches documented
- Selecting strategies: Stakeholder Workshop 2
- Field experiments
- Gully stabilisation: experimental results and conclusions
- Minimum tillage: experiment results and conclusions
- Simulated biophysical impact of remediation strategies and their financial viability **
- Evaluation of experimental results by stakeholders
- Evaluation of model results and remediation recommendations **
- Policy brief**
- Dissemination strategy**
- Scientific publications **
- Zeuss Koutine, Tunisia
- Contact the Zeuss Koutine study site team
- Study site location
- Study site description
- Stakeholders and their sustainability goals
- Drivers, policies and laws
- Gender-related issues
- Land degradation and conservation maps
- Desertification risk assessment maps**
- Identifying strategies: Stakeholder Workshop 1
- Evaluating strategies: technologies and approaches documented
- Selecting strategies: Stakeholder Workshop 2
- Field experiments
- Rangeland resting: experimental results and conclusions
- Water harvesting: experimental results and conclusions
- Simulated biophysical impact of remediation strategies and their financial viability **
- Evaluation of experimental results by stakeholders
- Evaluation of model results and remediation recommendations **
- Policy brief
- Dissemination strategy**
- Scientific publications **
- Dzhanibek, Russia
- Contact the Dzanibek study site team
- Study site location
- Study site description
- Stakeholders and their sustainability goals
- Drivers, policies and laws
- Gender-related issues
- Land degradation and conservation maps
- Desertification risk assessment maps**
- Identifying strategies: Stakeholder Workshop 1
- Evaluating strategies: technologies and approaches documented
- Selecting strategies: Stakeholder Workshop 2
- Field experiments
- Drip irrigation: experimental results and conclusions
- Simulated biophysical impact of remediation strategies and their financial viability **
- Evaluation of experimental results by stakeholders
- Evaluation of model results and remediation recommendations **
- Policy brief**
- Dissemination strategy**
- Scientific publications **
- Novy, Russia
- Contact the Novy study site team
- Study site location
- Study site description
- Stakeholders and their sustainability goals
- Drivers, policies and laws
- Gender-related issues
- Land degradation and conservation maps
- Desertification risk assessment maps**
- Identifying strategies: Stakeholder Workshop 1
- Evaluating strategies: technologies and approaches documented
- Selecting strategies: Stakeholder Workshop 2
- Field experiments
- Drip irrigation: experimental results and conclusions
- Simulated biophysical impact of remediation strategies and their financial viability **
- Evaluation of experimental results by stakeholders
- Evaluation of model results and remediation recommendations **
- Policy brief**
- Dissemination strategy**
- Scientific publications **
- Yan River Basin, China
- Contact the Yan River Basin study site team
- Study site location
- Study site description
- Stakeholders and their sustainability goals
- Drivers, policies and laws
- Gender-related issues
- Land degradation and conservation maps
- Desertification risk assessment maps**
- Landuse, elevation, soil and climate maps
- Digital data
- Identifying strategies: Stakeholder Workshop 1
- Evaluating strategies: technologies and approaches documented
- Selecting strategies: Stakeholder Workshop 2
- Field experiments
- Checkdams and terraces: experimental results and conclusions
- Simulated biophysical impact of remediation strategies and their financial viability **
- Evaluation of experimental results by stakeholders
- Evaluation of model results and remediation recommendations **
- Policy brief
- Dissemination strategy**
- Scientific publications **
- Boteti, Botswana
- Contact the Boteti study site team
- Study site location
- Study site description
- Stakeholders and their sustainability goals
- Drivers, policies and laws
- Interviews with local residents
- Gender-related issues
- Land degradation and conservation maps
- Desertification risk assessment maps**
- Identifying strategies: Stakeholder Workshop 1
- Evaluating strategies: technologies and approaches documented
- Selecting strategies: Stakeholder Workshop 2
- Field experiments
- Biogas: experimental results and conclusions
- Simulated biophysical impact of remediation strategies and their financial viability **
- Evaluation of experimental results by stakeholders
- Evaluation of model results and remediation recommendations **
- Policy brief
- Dissemination strategy**
- Scientific publications **
- UNCCD
- Twantsho bosekaka: dilo makwati
- Cointzio, Mexico
- Contact the Cointzio study site team
- Study site location
- Study site description**
- Stakeholders and their sustainability goals
- Drivers, policies and laws
- Gender-related issues
- Land degradation and conservation maps
- Desertification risk assessment maps**
- Identifying strategies: Stakeholder Workshop 1**
- Evaluating strategies: technologies and approaches documented**
- Selecting strategies: Stakeholder Workshop 2**
- Field experiments
- Local field experiment results and conclusions**
- Simulated biophysical impact of remediation strategies and their financial viability **
- Evaluation of experimental results by stakeholders
- Evaluation of model results and remediation recommendations **
- Policy brief
- Dissemination strategy**
- Scientific publications **
- Secano Interior, Chile
- Contact the Secano Interior study site teams
- Study site location
- Study site description
- Stakeholders and their sustainability goals
- Drivers, policies and laws **
- Gender-related issues
- Land degradation and conservation maps
- Desertification risk assessment maps**
- Identifying strategies: Stakeholder Workshop 1
- Evaluating strategies: technologies and approaches documented
- Selecting strategies: Stakeholder Workshop 2
- Field experiments
- Crop rotation: experimental results and conclusions
- No tillage: experimental results and conclusions
- Simulated biophysical impact of remediation strategies and their financial viability **
- Evaluation of experimental results by stakeholders
- Evaluation of model results and remediation recommendations **
- Policy brief
- Primer 1: Zero tillage
- Primer 2: Crop rotation
- Dissemination strategy**
- Scientific publications **
- Ribeira Seca, Cape Verde
- Contact the Ribeira Seca study site team
- Study site location
- Study site description
- Stakeholders and their sustainability goals
- Drivers, policies and laws
- Gender-related issues
- Land degradation and conservation maps
- Desertification risk assessment maps**
- Identifying strategies: Stakeholder Workshop 1
- Evaluating strategies: technologies and approaches documented
- Selecting strategies: Stakeholder Workshop 2
- Field experiments
- Runoff barriers: experimental results and conclusions
- Simulated biophysical impact of remediation strategies and their financial viability **
- Evaluation of experimental results by stakeholders
- Stakeholder video clips
- Evaluation of model results and remediation recommendations **
- Policy brief
- Dissemination strategy**
- Film for television
- Scientific publications **
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