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Despite ambitious desertification control programmes, the area of desertified land has expanded continuously since the establishment of the People's Republic of China, with increasingly serious impacts on important industrial and settlement areas.
Morocco is one of the African countries in which implementation of the UNCCD has progressed the furthest.
The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) is one of the three conventions agreed at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
The devastating tsunami has shown in a tragic way the great vulnerability and exposed nature of coastal communities to natural calamities.
Rural areas are not exempted from the impacts of globalisation. Global trends affecting agriculture are particularly significant in this respect. A number of options are available to developing countries in responding to these trends.
More than 70 percent of the world's poor live in rural areas.The World Bank's approach to rural development is holistic and multisectoral, focused on improving the wellbeing of rural people by building their productive, social, and environmental assets.
Les petits paysans dans les pays en développement ne peuvent pas, à eux seuls, absorber plus longtemps les conséquences massives du changement climatique au moyen de leurs stratégies traditionnelles de gestion des risques.
Les programmes d’assurance-récolte des pays en développement et des marchés émergents, tant qu’ils ne sont pas stabilisés et qu’ils n’ont pas accumulé suffi samment de données pour justifi er la mise en place de programmes plus avancés, sont habituellement limités aux risques
En 2008, le Fonds pour l'innovation en micro-assurance a attribué une subvention à Planet Guarantee (en partenariat avec AGF Afrique et Swiss Re) pour la réalisation d'une étude de faisabilité sur l'assurance indexée destinée aux producteurs de coton du Mali.
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