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UNCCD Advocacy Policy Framework on Gender

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Policy Papers & Briefs
August, 2013
Global

The UNCCD Advocacy Policy Framework (APF) on gender, approved by the COP10 (Decision 9), demonstrates the benefits of mainstreaming gender in Desertification/Land Degradation and Drought (DDLD)/ Sustainable Land Management (SLM) actions at national and local levels. The framework recognizes that gender mainstreaming has to take place at various levels involving multiple stakeholders.

Analysis of small ruminants’ pastoral management practices as risk factors of peste des petits ruminants (PPR) spread in Turkana District, Kenya

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Journal Articles & Books
August, 2013
Kenya
Africa
Eastern Africa

Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is an emerging viral disease spreading throughout Kenya and East Africa causing major losses in the small stock. This study is an attempt to evaluate small stock management practices in Turkana pastoral system, Kenya as predictors of PPR outbreaks.

Espacialidades pastoriles en las tierras altoandinas: Asentamientos y movilidades en Susques, puna de Atacama (Jujuy, Argentina)

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Journal Articles & Books
August, 2013
Argentina

Las prácticas pastoriles en las tierras altas de los Andes se constituyen como una estrategia productiva y una forma de vida que implica una particular concepción, percepción y vivencia de los espacios.

Adjustment and Sensitivity Analyses of a Beta Global Rangeland Model

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Reports & Research
August, 2013

G-Range is a global model that simulates generalized changes in rangelands through time,

created with support from the International Livestock Research Institute. Spatial data and a set

of parameters that control plant growth and other ecological attributes in landscape units

combine with computer code to represent ecological process such as soil nutrient and water