Success stories in the struggle against desertification : a holistic and integrated approach to environmental conservation and sustainable livelihoods
2002
UNEP
Invasive alien plants and their management in Africa : how a multi-country "War on Weeds" project is helping an infested continent to stem the colonising onslaught of invasive species
2013
Boy, Gordon |
Witt, Arne |
This book describes how the four-year GEF-funded project “Removing Barriers to Invasive Plant Management in Africa” was instrumental in developing ways of limiting the severe ecological, social and economic impacts in different parts of Africa of a number of particularly devastating alien plant invaders.
Cross-sectoral toolkit for the conservation and sustainable management of forest biodiversity
2008
Thompson, Ian |
Christophersen, Tim |
Climate change in the African drylands : options and opportunities for adaptation and mitigation
2009
This paper highlights the climate change mitigation potential of the African drylands and lays out various paths towards adaptation which should be supported to reduce the vulnerability of dryland populations and increase their food security.
Biodiversity indicators and the 2010 biodiversity target : outputs, experiences and lessons learnt from the 2010 Biodiversity Indicators Partnership
2010
This report summarises the experiences and lessons learnt from the 2010 Biodiversity Indicators Partnership (2010 BIP), as well as providing details of 27 global indicators developed in support of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)'s 2010 Biodiversity Target.