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The conference "Combating Desertification with Plants" was held in
Beer Sheva, Israel, from November 2-5, 1999, and was attended by 70
participants from 30 countries and/or international organisations.
Desertification - the degradation of soils in drylands - is a
phenomenon occurring in scores of countries around the globe. The
number of people (in semiarid regions) affected by the steady
decline in the productivity of their lands is in the hundred
millions. The measures required to halt and reverse the process of
desertification fall into many categories - policy, institutional,
sociological-anthropological, and technical. Although technical
"solutions" are not currently in vogue, the conference organizers
felt that perhaps the pendulum had swung too far in the direction
of "participatory approaches." Hence IPALAC - The International
Program for Arid Land Crops - whose function is to serve as a
catalyst for optimizing the contribution of plant germplasm to
sustainable development in desertification-prone regions - felt the
time was opportune for providing a platform for projects where the
"plant-driven" approach to development finds expression. Some 45
papers were delivered at the conference, falling into the
categories of this volume: Overview, Potential Germplasm for Arid
Lands, Introduction, Domestication and Dissemination of Arid Land
Plants, Land Rehabilitation, and Mechanisms of Plant Transfer. The
conference was funded by UNESCO (Division of Ecological Sciences),
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland, and MASHAV, Israel's
Center for International Development Cooperation.
The conference "Combating Desertification with Plants" was held in
Beer Sheva, Israel, from November 2-5, 1999, and was attended by 70
participants from 30 countries and/or international organisations.
Desertification - the degradation of soils in drylands - is a
phenomenon occurring in scores of countries around the globe. The
number of people (in semiarid regions) affected by the steady
decline in the productivity of their lands is in the hundred
millions. The measures required to halt and reverse the process of
desertification fall into many categories - policy, institutional,
sociological-anthropological, and technical. Although technical
"solutions" are not currently in vogue, the conference organizers
felt that perhaps the pendulum had swung too far in the direction
of "participatory approaches." Hence IPALAC - The International
Program for Arid Land Crops - whose function is to serve as a
catalyst for optimizing the contribution of plant germplasm to
sustainable development in desertification-prone regions - felt the
time was opportune for providing a platform for projects where the
"plant-driven" approach to development finds expression. Some 45
papers were delivered at the conference, falling into the
categories of this volume: Overview, Potential Germplasm for Arid
Lands, Introduction, Domestication and Dissemination of Arid Land
Plants, Land Rehabilitation, and Mechanisms of Plant Transfer. The
conference was funded by UNESCO (Division of Ecological Sciences),
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland, and MASHAV, Israel's
Center for International Development Cooperation.
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