A comprehensive state of the art about the restoration of natural capital: an alternative approach of environmental management...

How can civil society and researchers develop a beneficial collaboration for all? How to improve the access to the research results for the actors involved in combating desertification? Some elements of an answer in this document… 

An advocacy for the investment in natural capital restoration. This document proposes social and economic cost analysis of the desertification and shows the profits resulting from combating desertification actions particularly in Africa.

This alternative solution of the conventional cropping systems in developing countries preserves and restores the fertility of agricultural soils. It combines two major principles: the soil is never tilled and is permanently covered by plants…

A whole range of satellites and sensors allows environmental monitoring, comparisons in time and space, and then a better understanding of ecosystems and planet functioning. This document explains how to pass from satellite data to useful information for combating desertification.

Originally considered as a local development issue, the fight against desertification slowly appears at an international level as a global environment process. Can combating desertification be envisaged as a global public good? This document gives some elements of answer …