A new framework for: Conservation-effective land management and desertification control in Latin America and the Caribbean

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Guidelines for the Preparation and Implementation of National Action Programmes

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

This document describes new concepts, procedures and technical approaches to conservation-effective land management and desertification control in Latin America and the Caribbean with guidelines on the preparation and implementation of National Actions Programmes.

Contents

Summary

Introduction

Part I: The present situation

Land and water resources
Traditional approaches to land conservation and the consequences

Part II: A new framework

Concepts
Procedures
Technical approaches

Part III: Plan implementation

Features of national action programmes
Implementation: phases and procedures