برنامج الأراضي الجافة للأمم المتحدة
مبادرة الأراضي الجافة من مركز متابعة الحفاظ العالمي التابع لبرنامج الأمم المتحدة للبيئة.
المبادرة
في مطلع 2010, أطلق معهد الأرض في جامعة كلومبيا مبادرة الأراضي الجافة بالتشارك مع السوق المشهجرة لشرق وجنوب أفريقيا (كوميسا) للإسراع بالتنمية في سبع دول متجاورة في شرق أفريقيا، وهم المشاركون في الحدث بالإضافة إلى كنيا وإثيوبيا وجنوب السودان (التي لم تكن قد أصبحت دولة بعد)، وإرتريا. Under the initiative, participating countries will receive assistance to boost livestock production, build up health, sanitation, water and education infrastructures, and improve road, electricity and communication networks, among other critical areas.
“حدثا ازدادت البيئة جفافاً، حدثا كان التحدى أصعب،” نطق جفري ساكس، مدير معهد الأرض وأستاذ كرسي كويتلت للتنمية المستدامة وأستاذ سياسات وادارة الصحة. These arid zones, said Sachs, are the “toughest development challenge on the planet.” In addition to drought, hunger and epidemics, the link between conflict and lack of resources as a result of environmental degradation في أماكن مثل الصومال والسودام وإرتريا is “unmistakable,” he said.
معرض الصور
A dried-up waterbed in Moroto, Uganda. Drylands Initiative interventions are expected to help manage the region’s waterways and help communities make more efficient use of the available water resources.
The main cluster of dwellings in Khor Angar, Uganda, selected by the government for drylands intervention. The village is home to 500 permanent residents dependent on livestock rearing and fishing.
A dried-up waterbed in Moroto, Uganda. Future Drylands Initiative interventions will help manage the region’s waterways and help communities make more efficient use of the available water resources. In Dertu, Kenya, the site of a Millennium Village, an effort to improve outcomes in health, education, agriculture and other areas, a lack of rain threatens livestock that are critical to the communities.
A man searches for water and green pasture for his livestock.
On the road toward Obock, Djibouti, a temporary pond has formed from recent rains, giving livestock a reprieve from the otherwise parched environment.
إمرأة من درتو، كنيا، مع شتلات من مشتل أشجار، لتغرسهم لبناء حواجز ومصدات رياح لمنع تآكل التربة ولتحسين الرعي في الموسم الجاف للماشية
An important part of the Drylands Initiative, as well as the Millennium Villages Project, is to ensure access to education. In Dertu, Kenya, children learn math as part of the mobile school program.
This watering hole created by a dam built near the Millennium Village Project site in Dertu, Kenya, serves as a much-needed source of water for the villagers and their livestock.
In Koraro, Ethiopia, a Millennium Village site, stone barriers, trenches and ditches have been built to reduce water runoff and to collect it in pools, which helps recharge ground water.
Karamojong villagers living in Moroto District celebrate the recent rains and the delivery of seeds and farming equipment from the Ugandan government.
وصلات خارجية
- برنامج الأراضي الجافة
