TY - BOOK ID - 84412793 TI - Desire for greener land : options for sustainable land management in drylands. AU - Schwilch, Gudrun AU - Hessel, Rudi AU - Verzandvoort, Simone PY - 2012 SN - 9789461733290 9461733291 PB - Bern University of Bern DB - UniCat KW - 631.151.6 KW - 631.617 KW - 631.617 Reclamation of deserts and arid lands KW - Reclamation of deserts and arid lands KW - 631.151.6 Integrated farm production systems. Sustainable agriculture KW - Integrated farm production systems. Sustainable agriculture UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:84412793 AB - Desire for Greener Land compiles options for Sustainable Land Management (SLM) in drylands. It is a result of the integrated research project DESIRE (Desertification Mitigation and Remediation of Land - A Global Approach for Local Solutions). Lasting five years (2007-2012) and funded within the EU's Sixth Framework Programme, DESIRE brought together the expertise of 26 international research institutes and non-governmental organisations. The DESIRE project aimed to establish promising alternative land use and management strategies in 17 degradation and desertification sites around the world, relying on close collaboration between scientists and local stakeholder groups. The study sites provided a global laboratory in which researchers could apply, test, and identify new and innovative approaches to combatting desertification. The resulting SLM strategies are local- to regional-scale interventions designed to increase productivity, preserve natural resource bases, and improve people's livelihoods.These were documented and mapped using the internationally recognised WOCAT (World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies) methodological framework, which formed an integral part of the DESIRE project. ER -