Desertification Control Bulletin Number 24, 1994: A Bulletin of World Events in the Control of Desertification Restoration of Degraded Lands and Reforestation

In this issue: TheWorkshop "Listening to the People: Social Aspects of Dryland Management"; Third Session of Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee an Drafting Convention to Combat Desertification; Scale-Dependent Mapping and Simulation of Landscape Dynamics in Arid Regions Prone to Desertification; Do Desert Reclamation Programmes Work'? Lessons from Egypt; Sustainable Agricultural Development and Halting Desertificat ion in Kuwait; Tree Planting: Mobilizing the People of Tanzania; The Ecological Destruction of Cholislan Desert and its Eco-regeneratian; The Deterioration of the Environment in Africa's Drylands and river Basins; Environmental and Socio-Economic Effects of Irrigation Schemes in the Arab Near East; Learning from the Nomads: Resource and Risk Management of Nomadic Pastoralists; etc.