Global context

• The bigger picture
• Desertification
  • Easy-to-read booklets, leaflets and PowerPoints about different aspects of desertification in Europe
• UNCCD
  • Brief on the UNCCD

Desertification research

• Global collaboration
  • UNDP Integrated Drylands Development Programme
  • WOCAT
  • Drynet
  • LAND-L announcement list
• Recent European research
  • AIDCCD
  • ARIDnet
  • ASMODE
  • CAMELEO
  • CLEMDES
  • CLIMED
  • CORINE
  • COST 634
  • DEMON-I
  • DEMON-II
  • DESERTLINKS
  • Desert*Net
  • DESERTSTOP
  • DESERTWATCH
  • DeSurvey
  • DISMED
  • ECO-SLOPES
  • GEORANGE
  • GLASOD
  • ILTER
  • INDEX
  • JEFFARA
  • LADA
  • LADAMER
  • LEDDRA
  • LUCC
  • LUCINDA
  • MEDACTION
  • MEDAFOR
  • MEDALUS I, II, III
  • MEDCHANGE
  • MEDCOASTLAND
  • MEDRAP
  • MEDRATE
  • MWISED
  • PAP/RAC
  • PESERA
  • PRACTICE
  • PROTERRA
  • REACTION
  • RECONDES
  • REDMED
  • ROSELT
  • SCAPE
  • SENSOR
  • Sustainable Uplands
  • TERON
  • UNDESERT
  • VULCAN
  • WWAP
• DESIRE Project

Key messages

• DESIRE video clip
• Global level
  • DESIRE and zero growth
  • Engaging with people affected by desertification
  • Putting knowledge into action
  • DESIRE and the UNCCD 10 Year Strategic Plan
  • White Papers for UNCCD CST 2009
  • Is the UNCCD stuck in a knowledge traffic jam?
  • Agriculture policy paper **
  • Migration policy paper**
• National level
  • Overview of relevant national policies **
  • Overview of final policy briefs from all study sites **
• Local stakeholder level
  • Exchange visits between farmers from Turkish study sites
  • Story lines of stakeholder involvement**
• 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
  • Manual of communication and dissemination
• Promoting gender equality

Publicity

• Newsletters & press releases
  • Newsletter 7: Focus on research in Chile and Mexico
  • Newsletter 6: DESIRE students demonstrate new research results and ideas
  • Newsletter 5: DESIRE celebrates the hard work and enthusiasm of the PhD students
  • Newsletter 4: Field experiment progress
  • Newsletter 3: Stakeholders & scientists learn to listen to one another
  • Newsletter 2: DESIRE's 3rd year of progress
  • Newsletter 1: Details of DESIRE's aims
  • Press release: Desertification Day, 17 June 2009
• Paper media
• TV & internet
• Radio & podcasts
• Conferences & events
  • Wildfire 2009 Conference
  • Ancient Landscapes - Modern Perspectives, Melbourne 2009
  • International Disaster and Risk Conference, Davos, 2010

Research themes

• Overview
• 1. Starting point
  • Information review
    • Desertification and land degradation: executive summary
    • Desertification and land degradation: full review
  • DESIRE's study sites
    • Compilation & synthesis of study site descriptions
  • Assessment and mapping
    • WOCAT tool for mapping land degradation and land conservation**
    • Spatial extent of degradation and conservation in DESIRE study sites
  • Drivers & policy
    • Drivers, policies and laws in DESIRE study sites
    • Overview of main drivers of desertification [js]
  • Stakeholders & sustainability
    • An inventory of relevant stakeholders
    • Sustainability goals of stakeholders in study sites
  • Related websites
    • LADA - Land degradadation assessment in drylands
    • LUCINDA - Land care in desertification affected areas: from science towards application
    • WOCAT - World overview of conservation approaches and technologies
• 2. Assessment with indicators
  • Identifying indicators
    • Manual for describing land degradation indicators
    • Indicators in the study sites
    • Database of indicators in study sites
  • Evaluation & short-list of indicators
    • Comparative analysis of indicators existing in the study sites
    • Evaluation of land management practices and techniques using indicators
  • Improving indicators
    • Sediment yield
    • Water repellency
    • Stones
    • Total vulnerability
  • Desertification risk assessment
    • Using indicators for indentifying best management practices**
    • offline Desertification Risk Assessment Tool
    • online Desertification Risk Assessment Tool**
    • Evaluation of field trials **
  • Related publications
  • Related websites
    • Desertification Indicator System for Mediterranean Europe - DIS4ME
    • DIS Database
• 3. Potential strategies
  • Identifying strategies
    • Stakeholder Workshop 1: Guidelines
    • Stakeholder Workshop 1: Training Session
    • List of locally applied and potential strategies from all study sites
    • Stakeholder Workshop 1: All study sites - analysis and synthesis
  • Evaluating strategies
    • Evaluation of strategies: guidelines
    • Database of evaluated strategies from all study sites
  • Selecting strategies
    • Stakeholder Workshop 2: Guidelines
    • Stakeholder Workshop 2: Training Session
    • Decision support tool for strategy selection
    • Ready-to-implement measures for each study site
    • Stakeholder Workshop 2: Synthesis report
  • Related publications
  • Related websites
    • WOCAT - World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies
• 4. Implementing field trials
  • General methodologies
    • Field measuring and monitoring methods
    • Site Implementation Plan blueprint
  • Field experiments
    • Overview of field experiments for all study sites [js]
  • Local results and conclusions
    • Summary of field experiments and conclusions from all study sites**
  • Evaluation by stakeholders
    • Local stakeholder workshop and policymaker interview methodology***
    • Synthesis of feedback of experimental results to stakeholders**
  • Study site comparisons
    • WP4.5 Objectives
  • Related websites
    • ManPrAs - Agricultural management practices assessment
• 5. Regional scale solutions
  • Model descriptions
    • PESERA: improved biophysical process descriptions
    • PESERA-DESMICE: Land management evaluation model
    • Agent-based modelling: the Guadalentín case study **
  • Model applications
    • Synthesis and conclusions of model applications **
    • Regional economic effects of adopting remediation strategies **
  • Remediation recommendations
    • Synthesis of stakeholder evaluation and remediation recommendations **
  • Framework for knowledge management
  • Related publications
  • Related websites
    • Pan European Soil Erosion Risk Assessment - PESERA
  • Framework for knowledge management
    • Framework for knowledge management
• 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
    • WOCAT dissemination products
    • Examples from expert organisations
    • Involving the Turkish media and stakeholders
  • Related websites
    • Dissemination guidance from expert organisations

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
  • 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
  • Noticias del campo
  • Local and national publicity**
  • Scientific publications **
• Mação, Portugal
  • Related projects
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
• 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
  • 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 **
• 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
  • 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 **
• 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
  • 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 **
  • 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
  • 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 **
  • 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
  • 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 **
• 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
  • 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 **
• 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
  • 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 **
• 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
  • 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 **
• 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
  • 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 **
• Boteti, Botswana
  • Related projects
  • 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
  • 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 **
  • UNCCD
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• 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 **

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