Global context

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

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?
  • Food security in drylands
• 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
  • Boletim de factos 1: Ciência e os meios de subsistência
  • Boletim de factos 2: Investigadores e decisores
  • Boletim de factos 3: Usuários da terra
  • 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

Temas

• Overview
• 1. Study site contexts & goals
  • Revisão da informação
    • Desertification and land degradation: executive summary
    • Desertification and land degradation: full review
  • DESIRE's study sites
    • Compilation & synthesis of study site descriptions
  • Factores indutores e políticas
    • Drivers, policies and laws in DESIRE study sites
    • Overview of main drivers of desertification [js]
  • Agentes e sustentabilidade
    • An inventory of relevant stakeholders
    • Sustainability goals of stakeholders in study sites
  • Avaliação e cartografia
    • WOCAT tool for mapping land degradation and land conservation**
    • Spatial extent of degradation and conservation in DESIRE study sites
  • Páginas de internet relacionadas
    • 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
  • Identificação de indicadores
    • Manual for describing land degradation indicators
    • Indicators in the study sites
    • Database of indicators in study sites
  • Avaliação e lista de indicadores
    • Comparative analysis of indicators existing in the study sites
    • Evaluation of land management practices and techniques using indicators
  • Melhoria dos indicadores
  • 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
  • Páginas de internet relacionadas
    • Desertification Indicator System for Mediterranean Europe - DIS4ME
    • DIS Database
  • Improving indicators
    • Sediment yield
    • Water repellency
    • Stones
    • Total vulnerability
• 3. Potential strategies
  • Parte 1: Estratégias de identificação
    • 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
  • Parte 2: Estratégias de avaliação
    • Avaliação de estratégias: orientações
    • Database of evaluated strategies from all study sites
  • Parte 3: Estratégias de selecção
    • 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
  • Páginas de internet relacionadas
    • 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**
    • D4.5.1 **
  • Páginas de internet relacionadas
    • ManPrAs - Agricultural management practices assessment
• 5. Regional scale solutions
  • Modelação à escala global
    • PESERA: improved biophysical process descriptions
    • PESERA-DESMICE: Land management evaluation model
    • Agent-based modelling: the Guadalentín case study **
  • Aplicação do modelo
    • Synthesis and conclusions of model applications **
    • Regional economic effects of adopting remediation strategies **
  • Recomendações de remediação
    • WP4.5 Objectives
    • Recommended remediation strategies within each study site region for policy-makers and extenstionists
  • Framework for knowledge management
  • Related publications
  • Páginas de internet relacionadas
    • 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

Áreas de estudo

• Localização das áreas de estudo
• [1] Murcia, Espanha
• [2a] Mação, Portugal
  • Related projects
• [2b] Góis, Portugal
• [3] Rendina, Itália
• [4] Crete, Grécia
• [5] Maggana, Grécia
• [6] Karapinar, Turquia
• [7] Eskisehir, Turquia
• 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 **
• [10] Dzhanybek, Rússia
• [11] Novy, Rússia
• [12] Yan River Basin, China
• [13] Boteti, Botsuana
  • Related projects
• [14] Cointzio, México
• [17] Secano Interior, Chile
• [18] Santiago, Cabo Verde