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1) The development of desert conditions as a result of human activity or climatic changes. 2) The process of land damage which allows the soil to spread like a desert in arid and semi-arid regions. There is a loss of vegetative cover and the soil deteriorates in texture, nutrient content and fertility. Desertification affects the lives of three-quarters of the world's population, 70% of all drylands and one quarter of the total land area of the planet. There are many reasons for desertification, but the majority are caused by human activities, overgrazing, deforestation, poor land management and over-exploitation. Agenda 21 states that the priority in combating desertification should be establishing preventive measures for lands that are not yet, or are only slightly, degraded. (Source: LBC / WRIGHT)

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Sullivan S 1999. The impacts of people and livestock on topographically diverse open wood-and shrub-lands in arid north-west Namibia. Global Ecology and Biogeography 8 (3 - 4) 257 - 277

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The impacts of people and livestock on topographically diverse open wood_and shrub_lands in arid north_west Namibia.pdf	264.41 KB

Palmer AR, van Rooyen AF 1998. Detecting vegetation change in the southern Kalahari using Landsat TM data. Journal of Arid Environments 39 (2) 143 - 153

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196398903998

Seely MK 1998. Can science and community action connect to combat desertification?. Journal of Arid Environments 39 (2) 267 - 277

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Nangula S, Oba G 2004. Effects of artificial water points on the Oshana ecosystem in Namibia. Environmental Conservation 31 (01) 47 - 54

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Klintenberg P, Kruger AS, Seely M 2007. Community-driven local level monitoring: Recording environmental change to support multi-level decision-making in Namibia. Secheresse 18 (4) 336 - 341

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Burke A 2004. Range management systems in arid Namibia - what can livestock numbers tell us?. Journal of Arid Environments 59 (2) 387 - 408

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196304000345

Gobabeb Training and Research Centre.

Website link:http://www.gobabebtrc.org/

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Website link:http://hdl.handle.net/10204/3330

Seely MK 1991. Namibia: drought and desertification.

Biodiversity Monitoring Transect Analysis in Africa (BIOTA).

Website link:http://www.biota-africa.org/contact_south_ba.php

United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).

Website link:http://www.unccd.int/

DRFN Library and Resource Centre.

Website link:http://www.drfn.org.na/htm/publications/pub_library_information.htm

Namibia Desertification.

Website link:http://www.namibia-desertification.org/

Akhtar-Schuster M, Thomas RJ, Stringer LC, Chasek P, Seely M 2011. Improving the enabling environment to combat land degradation: Institutional, financial, legal and science-policy challenges and solutions. Land Degradation and Development 22 (2) 299-312

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ldr.1058/full

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Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018215000516

Akhtar-Schuster M, Amiraslani F, Diaz Morejon CF, Escadafal F, Fulajtar E, Grainger A, Kellner K, Khan SI, Perez Prado O, Sauchanka U, Stringer LC, Reda F, Thomas RJ 2016. Designing a new science-policy communication mechanism for the UN Convention to Combat Desertification. Environmental Science and Policy 63 122-131

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1462901116300600

Seely M, Wöhl H 2004. Connecting Research to Combating Desertification. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 99 (1-3) 23-32

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Bornman TG, Adams JB, Bezuidenhout C 2004. Adaptations of salt marsh to semi-arid environments and management implications for the Orange River mouth. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 59 (2) 125-131

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00359190409519173#.VIAMnmctBHg

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Uaria-Kakujaha K, Kambatuku J 1995. Making a way through thick bush: The charcoal alternatives. Seeds: News, Opinion and insight about desertification in Namibia 1 1-7

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Sullivan S 2000. Getting the science right, or introducing science in the first place? Local 'facts', global discourse - 'desertification' in north-western Namibia. Political Ecology: Science, myth and power 15-44

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Sullivan S 2002. 'How can the rain fall in this chaos?': Myth and metaphor in representations of the north-west Namibian landscape. Challenges for anthropology in the African "renaissance" - A southern African contribution 255-317

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Sullivan 2002 How can the rain fall in all this chaos.pdf	10.2 MB

Seely MK, Jacobson KM 1996. Desertification in Namibia. Namibia Environment 1 170-173

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Desertification in Namibia_1996.pdf	6.03 MB

Reed MS, Stringer LC, Dougill AJ, Perkins JS, Atlhopheng JR, Mulale K, Favretto N 2015. Reorienting land degradation towards sustainable land management: Linking sustainable livelihoods with ecosystem services in rangeland systems. Journal of Environmental Management (151) 472-485

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Strohbach BJ 2018. Determining the degree of deforestation in the Omusati Region, northern Namibia, with the aid of drone imagery. Climate change and adaptive land management in southern Africa - assessments, changes, challenges, and solutions 370-377

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Determining the degree of deforestation in the Omusati Region_northern Namibia_with the aid of drone imagery.pdf	2.8 MB

2014. Concise Strategy and Action Plan for Namibia's Presidency of the 11th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification.

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Getzin S, Yizhaq H 2019. Unusual Namibian fairy circle patterns in heterogeneous and atypical environments. Journal of Arid Environments (164) 85-89

Website link:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2019.01.017

Rohde RF, Hoffman MT, Durbach T, Venter Z, Jack S 2019. Vegetation and climate change in the Pro-Namib and Namib Desert based on repeat photography: Insights into climate trends. Journal of Arid Environments (165) 119-131

Website link:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2019.01.007

Ward D, Ngairorue BT 2000. Are Namibia's grasslands desertifying?. Journal of Range Management (53) 138-144

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Are Namibias grasslands desertifying.pdf	108.59 KB

Soderberg K 2000. Approaches to the study of water resources in north-central Namibia: A water balance analysis utilizing NDVI data for three case studies.

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Approaches to the study of water resources in north_central Namibia.pdf	1.33 MB

Siiskonen H 1996. Deforestation in the Owambo Region, north Namibia, since the 1850s. Environment and History 2 (3) 291-308

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Deforestation in the Owambo Region_north Namibia_ since the 1850s.pdf	189.97 KB

Menestrey Schwieger DA, Mbidzo M 2020. Socio-historical and structural factors linked to land degradation and desertification in Namibia's former Herero 'homelands'. Journal of Arid Environments 178

Website link:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0140196320300574

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2019. Climate Change and Land: IPCC Special Report on Climate Change, Desertification, Land Degradation, Sustainable Land Management, Food Security, and Greenhouse gas fluxes in Terrestrial Ecosystems. Summary for Policymakers.

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Climate Change and Land_IPCC Special Report.pdf	31.33 MB

Seely M, Klintenberg P 2011. Case Study Desertification: Central-Northern Namibia. Silviculture in the Tropics 491-499

Website link:https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-19986-8_31

Bethune S, Pallett J 2002. Namibia's second national report on the implementation of the UN convention to combat desertification.

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Desert Research Foundation of Namibia (DRFN) 2004. Namibia's third national report on the implementation of the UN convention to combat desertification.

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Böhm N Desertifikation - Zu den Schwierigkeiten der Implementation der UN-Konvention: Fallstudie Namibia .

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Becker T 2000. Muster der Vegetation und ihre Determinanten in einem desertifikationgefährdeten Raum im Nordwesten Namibias (Kaokoland).

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Hengari S 2018. Final report: Land Degradation Neutrality Pilot Project.

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Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MET) Third National Action Programme for Namibia to implement the United Nations Convention to combat desertification 2014 - 2024.

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Third National Action Programme for Namibia to implement the United Nations Convention to combat desertification 2014_2024.pdf	1.07 MB

Siesser WG 2020. Aridification of the Namib Desert: Evidence from oceanic cores. Antarctic Glacial History and World Palaeoenvironments 9

Website link:https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/aridification-namib-desert-evidence-oceanic-cores-william-siesser/e/10.1201/9781003078906-10

Brown CJ 1994. Namibia's National Policy to combat desertification.

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Zeidler J 2009. Some thoughts on policy and desertification: what key contributions can scientists make to policy processes in the southern African context?. African Journal of Range and Forage Science 26 (3) 149-157

Website link:https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ajrfs/article/view/48950

Matambo ST, Seely M 2013. World Resources Report Case Study. Namibia: Combating Desertification with Tools for Local-Level Decision Making.

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Seely M, Klintenberg P, Shikongo S 2007. Evolutionary process of mainstreaming desertification policy: a Namibian case study. Desertification and the international policy imperative. Proceedings of a Joint International Conference 107-115

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Seely MK, Klintenberg P, Hamilton WJ 2004. Solving environmental problems: Namibia, Sharing innovative experiences: Examples of the successful conservation and sustainable use of dryland biodiversity. 57-59

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Examples of the Successful Conservation and Sustainable Use of Dryland Biodiversity.pdf	6.08 MB

Menestrey Schwieger DA 2022. Exploring pastoralists' perceptions of desertification tipping points in Namibia's communal drylands: An ethnographic case study from Okakarara constituency. Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice 129 (3)

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Gazza A, Lubanda P, Masheshe L, Muharukua V, Nawa R, Nickanor N, Noongo E, Persson J, Shiponeni N, Shimali P 1999. Potential Value of Land and Water Resources in Northeast Otjozondjupa.

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Pontential_Value_of_Land_and_Water_Resources_in_Northeast_Otjozondjupa_by_the_Summer_Desertification_Project.pdf	8.9 MB

DHV Consultants BV 1996. Combatting desertification through sustainable rehabilitation of bush encroached farmland.

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Combatting_Desertification__Through_Sustainable_Rehabilitation_of_Bush_Encroached_Farmland_1996.pdf	3.15 MB