Developing technical competence in dryland agriculture

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities. Agenda 21 recommends supporting regional and subregional activities in technology development and dissemination, training and programme implementation to arrest dryland degradation.

DANIDA has prepared a series of strategies that examine environmental issues in dryland agriculture.

1. Managing drylands
2. Ensuring sustainable agricultural development
3. Ensuring competent practice of agricultural sciences
4. Developing sustainable land use policy
5. Combating desertification
6. Addressing problems of cultivation of marginal agricultural land

1. Researching sustainable agriculture
2. Reducing vulnerability of arid developing countries
3. Providing regional agricultural support
4. Managing fragile ecosystems

1. Reducing overgrazing
2. Providing agricultural aid to developing countries

1. Underdevelopment of countries
2. Stagnated development of agricultural production

1. Unsustainable
2. Incompetence
3. Competence
4. Arid

1. SEPASAL