In this issue: Land Degradation and Sustainable Development in Papua New Guinea; Making Aridlands Productive: Conservation and Utilization of Thar Desert Biodiversity for Sustainable Development in India; Water Erosion Indicators; Strategy of Desertification Control in the Central Asia; Eight-year Performance of Eucalyptus camaldulensis Dehuh in Waterspreaders in a Sandy Desert; Contribution of Fuelwood Harvest to Land Degradation in Kenya; Livestock Husbandry and Ecological Stability in Nigeria: The economic implications; FAO/UNEP Programme on Desertification Control in Latin America and the Caribbean; Integrated Wasteland Development: NCHSE Experience etc.