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Heat stress is causing desert bird populations to collapse

As the Mojave Desert in California and Nevada becomes hotter and drier, birds need more water to stay cool.

Recommendation XII/6

Guidance on strengthening the assessment of the 2010 biodiversity target in dry and sub-humid lands and proposals for land-use options that promote biodiversity and generate income for indigenous and local communities

Global symposium on soil biodiversity 2021 (GSOBI21): "Keep soil alive, protect soil biodiversity"

19 - 22 April 2021, Online, Rome, Italy

Global Symposium on Soil and Water (FAO)

31 May - 2 June 2023, Rome, Italy

Global Symposium on Soil Biodiversity (FAO)

1 - 3 June 2020, Rome, Italy

Global Soil Week 2017: 'Catalysing SDG Implementation through a Soil and Land Review'

22 - 24 May 2017, Berlin, Germany

Global Soil Partnership Plenary Assembly (FAO)

12 - 14 July 2023, Rome, Italy

Get Africa’s Great Green Wall back on track

A plan to green 7,000 kilometres of Africa’s drylands is struggling to take off. Researchers must help.

Fourth Forum Africa - Latin America and the Caribbean on combating desertification. Theme: Sustainable agricultural farming systems

25 - 28 November 2004, Tunis, Tunisia

Fourteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD COP 14)

7 - 18 October 2019, New Delhi, India

Food From Thought

UNITED NATIONS, Jul 2 2019 (IPS) - As the weather continues to change and land becomes degraded, the socio-economic security implications are vast. In an effort to tackle these issues, climate-smart agriculture is quickly gaining traction around the world.

Five new press sheets available that explain the role of wetlands for: the Aichi Biodiversity Targets; Ecosystem services; SDGs, as well as Challenges of the future and the value of wetlands.

First Meeting of the Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention to Combat Desertification

11 - 22 November 2002, Geneva, Switzerland

First Meeting of the Ad hoc Technical Expert Group on Dry and Sub-Humid Lands

18 - 22 March 2002, Montreal, Canada

First International Congress in Dry Forest

6 - 9 November 2003, Piura, Peru

Fifth Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification

1 - 12 October 2001, Geneva, Switzerland

Fifth Asia-Africa Forum on the Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Disertification (UNCCD)

1 November 2008, Beijing, China

Feral horses, donkeys dig desert holes to hydrate biodiversity

When it comes to finding water and staying hydrated in desert environments, animals will take all the help they can get. This includes from other wildlife, even ones that pose threats to natural ecosystems.

FROM THE FIELD: Restoring life to Ghana’s land

Subsistence farmers in Ghana are learning how to hold back the decline in the fertility of the smallholdings they cultivate while revitalizing their soils as desertification increasingly threatens their land and livelihoods.

Eastern Africa Regional Workshop of the UN-Water Initiative “Capacity Development to Support National Drought Management Policies”

5 - 8 August 2014, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Recommendation VIII/4

Dry and sub-humid lands biodiversity: matters requested by the Conference of the Parties in paragraphs 5 and 6 of its decision V/23 and decision VI/4

Drought threatens to become the next pandemic

"Drought is on the verge of becoming the next pandemic, and there is no vaccine to cure it." "Drought has directly affected 1.5 billion people so far this century, and this number will grow dramatically unless the world gets better at managing this risk," said Mami Mizutori, the United Nations S ...

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Report of the CBD-UNCCD Joint Workshop on the Role of Biodiversity in National Drought Management Policies

Developments in the framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity of relevance to the Convention to Combat Desertification

Statement by Dr. Hamdallah Zedan during the opening session of the Forth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention to Combat Desertification

Desertification ‘More Dangerous and More Insidious than Wars’

ANKARA, Jun 18 2019 (IPS) - Businesses are being encouraged to follow the lead of the youth to halt desertification, reduce degradation, improve agricultural sustainability and restore damaged lands.

Contribution from Dr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, to the Seminar on Desertification and its Implications, 2 – 4 April 2007.

Contribution from Dr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, to the Seminar on Desertification and its Implications, 2 – 4 April 2007.

Dry and sub-humid ecosystems cover 47% of the Earth’s land surface. They are not barren land or dead landscapes; rather they contain a number of important well-adapted species. Indeed some of the world’s most important food crops originated in dry and sub-humid lands including wheat and olives. ...

Recommendation XIV/11

Consideration of proposals related to the programme of work on dry and sub-humid lands

Conserving Dryland Biodiversity: supporting the environmental services of mobile pastoralists and other indigenous peoples

Discussion of the recommendations from the recent IUCN-UNCCD-UNEP/WCMC publication "Conserving Dryland Biodiversity". Dryland Biodiversity is globally and locally valued, but some dryland subtypes are poorly represented in terms of protected area coverage. However, indigenous and local communiti ...

Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, 4th Session, and meetings of subsidiary bodies

11 - 22 December 2000, Bonn, Germany

Communiqué: Rio Conventions Pavilion helps raise awareness

Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)

23 - 27 March 2015, Bonn, Germany

Climate change, biodiversity loss, deforestation and land degradation addressed as a single challenge at the Aichi Nagoya Biodiversity Summit

Nagoya, Japan, 18 October 2010: As the challenges—and solutions—to climate change, biodiversity loss, deforestation and the degradation of the world’s drylands, are interlinked and cannot be addressed in a compartmentalized approach. <br><a href='http://www.cbd.int/doc/press/2010/pr-2010-10-18- ...

CBD-UNCCD Joint Workshop on the role of biodiversity in national drought management policies

10 - 11 March 2013, Geneva, Switzerland

CBD-UNCCD Joint Work Programme on Biological Diversity of Dry and Subhumid Lands

30 April - 2 May 2001, Bonn, Germany

CBD SBSTTA Recommendations: XIV/11 on Biodiversity of Dry and Sub-humid Lands, XIV/5 on Biodiversity and Climate Change

Reference: SBCD/STTM/JW/71918 (2010-123)
To: CBD National Focal Points and SBSTTA Focal Points

In accordance with notification 2010-119 of 15 June, please be advised that the online survey on possible joint activities between the three Rio Conventions is now also available in French and Spanish.

CBD SBSTTA Recommendations XIV/11: Biodiversity of Dry and Sub-humid Lands and XIV/5 Biodiversity and Climate Change

Reference: SBCD/STTM/JW/71918 (2010-119)
To: CBD National Focal Points and SBSTTA Focal Points

The fourteenth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA-14) held from 10to 21 May, 2010, requested the Executive Secretary to consult Parties in order to explore possibilities of developing a proposal on joint activities between the three Rio Conve ...

Recommendation V/8

Biological diversity of dryland, Mediterranean, arid, semi-arid, grassland and savannah ecosystems: options for the development of a programme of work

Recommendation XI/1

Biological diversity of dry and subhumid lands

Recommendation VII/3

Biological diversity of dry and sub-humid lands: progress report on the implementation of the programme of work

Biocrusts-Key To Ecosystem Health

Biological soil crusts, known as biocrusts, are lichens, algae, mosses, fungi, and cyanobacteria common on the soil surface.[i]They are critical to arid ecosystems, where they help to reduce soil erosion and maintain stability.

Beyond Tigers

Beyond Tigers would highlight the manner in which tigers promote (and could further promote) CBD objectives, particularly Aichi Targets 11 and 12. The event will highlight how tiger conservation efforts have mobilized funds which protect the wider ecosystems in which the species is found, thus a ...

Bern Convention Group of Experts on the Conservation of Amphibians and Reptiles

4 - 5 May 2006, Strasbourg, France

Beijing International Conference on Women and Desertification

29 May - 1 June 2006, Beijing, China

Bamako International Conference on Youth and Desertification

4 - 6 September 2006, Bamako, Mali

Recommendation IV/3

Assessment of the status and trends and options for conservation and sustainable use of terrestrial biological diversity: dryland, Mediterranean, arid, semi-arid, grassland, and savannah ecosystems